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Re:GPU Hoarding: ‘I Felt Like I Was Buying Drugs’ by Declanomous on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @06:04PM (#16371724)
That definitely happened with GPUs back when bitcoin could be mined with GPUs. That also has happened with RAM recently as well.

Also, after a while certain enterprise hardware ends up being worth a fortune as desperate IT guys try to buy stuff as spares for a critical system that haven't been upgraded for whatever reason.

Then there's stuff like Raspberry Pi's, though they aren't really a computer part per se. That being said, computer parts occasionally do sell used for more than their list price.

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Re:GPU Hoarding: ‘I Felt Like I Was Buying Drugs’ by iMerNibor on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @06:32PM (#16371955)
> has happened with RAM recently as well.

Is happening sadly.. ram prices are still stupid

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Re:GPU Hoarding: ‘I Felt Like I Was Buying Drugs’ by paulmd on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @06:48PM (#16372045)
Oddly, used Jetson TK1s have always sold for higher prices on eBay than you could get them from Newegg or other suppliers, and I'm not clear on why.
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