Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards

Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by acomjean on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:33PM (#29101323)

Yeah. Its pretty meaningless.

If you are buying a new sealed video card, never used sold on craigslist/ebay, I'm guessing your not very suspicious and probably not looking for a warranty.

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by kadoban on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @07:32PM (#29101899)

In the current market, you have essentially no way to buy from a manufacturer or primary retailer. You have to get _insanely_ lucky to be able to do so.

So you're essentially saying nobody is going to be looking for any warranties on any cards, which is quite wrong.

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by AnssiH on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @08:11PM (#29102208)

Around here (Finland) there is a moderate amount of various cards in stock at the biggest computer retailers, the prices are just high:

https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/catalog/706b/Naytonohjaimet/... (in-stock cards)

https://www.jimms.fi/fi/Product/List/000-00P/komponentit--na... (cards sorted by stock)

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by kadoban on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @08:17PM (#29102256)

Yeah you're right, it does depend where you are. I can only speak for US market.

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by Animats on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:14AM (#29104265)

In the current market, you have essentially no way to buy from a manufacturer or primary retailer.

It's not impossible. Central Computer, Silicon Valley's main chain of computer stores, has a buying office in Shenzhen. So a lot of stuff goes directly from factory to them. This avoids the detour through Alibaba to somebody's garage to Amazon.

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by xxs on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @08:53PM (#29102500)

in EU, you can just buy cards at amazon - the prices are what they are... 2100€ for 3080ti, sold by amazon, themselves.

Being amazon you have the easiest returns ever, just send a complaint and send it back, they will return the money and both shipping costs.

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by 14 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:47PM (#29101479)

Now days PS5's and graphics cards are bought up quickly and sold by scalpers. So I am guessing some may not be suspicious at all but assume it is just a scalper and may even expect to pay a mark up on said items.

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