Anyone bidding $60,000+ for an RTX 3080 on eBay is either faking it or crazy

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[–]magnora7 14 insightful - 4 fun14 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 4 fun -  (6 children)

I read a thing that they're doing this to scammers, and then not paying. To screw over the scammers who bought out the whole stock right at launch, so they can't unload their inventory. Basically they're gaming ebay to try and teach the scammers a lesson.

But now no one has access to the cards, they all got bought in the primary market by scammers, and then the secondary market is being flooded by tactics like this. It's kind of bizarre tbh

[–]LesbianOutlaw 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Won't work on smart scalpers.

All they have to do is make it a fixed price listing. Set it at $1,200, tick the box to require instant payment when the buy button is clicked.

Problem solved.

[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Ebay compensates the buyer all the time, even if its a scammer.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Not always Jesus, eBay has fucked me a few times. They almost always side with the buyer, that's true, but not 100%.

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah I've had fraudulent buyers say they never received what I shipped them, and then ebay gave them all their money back from paypal ($450 in this case), and then I was banned from paypal. For them stealing my money and my childhood legos I sold them. So I never used ebay again. Paypal and ebay should go out of business

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What do you recommend? The owner of Ebay is the billionaire behind Glen Greenwald and the controlled opposition progressive left.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

yeah someopne made a bot to bid high on ebay things, just cuz he is against scalpers

[–]lawuigi[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Definitely! But it sure is fun to watch.

[–]iDontShift 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

money laundering

[–]SaidOverRed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That's ... that's actually kind of ingenuous. Except now everyone sees it. Wait ... is that a better explanation for the suspected pedo company with shower curtains (with names matching missing children) for ridiculous prices?

[–]iDontShift 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

the fact those shower curtains were named after missing kids..

pretty much seals the deal on those pedo curtains as being just that.

[–]SaidOverRed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I too, find that persuasive. But I don't have evidence either way. The company said it was coincidences and snopes tried to argue (without anything more than anecdotal evidence) that it was likely to happen with various proper nouns. We need a linguist and a statistician who have teamed up to find the odds of this kind of stuff.

[–]iDontShift 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

there is literally no possible explanation I would accept at this point.

insanely overpriced shit with names of missing kids? and not just a few..

not like these fuckers gonna own up to it.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

All this for 20% to 30% higher performance than a 2080ti. For that kind of money, they could likely get custom patches for enabling SLI on the games that don't support it, slap 2 2080ti's in there and have heaps more performance.

[–]lawuigi[S] 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

But these go to 11!

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Isn't the only reason there's such a high demand for gfx cards is for bitmining? I don't think this is gamers doing this.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe. I do mine Ethereum with graphics cards, but I also use other expensive video cards for gaming as well. Either way, paying outrageous amounts of money for a card that's 25% faster than the previous gen flagship makes no sense from a crypto mining point of view either: you might as well buy the currency itself AND a card that's 75% as fast...

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Definitely. I was thinking the same thing.

[–]Fetus_inhaler 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

People do this shit? Humanity is scum.

[–]sproketboy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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