News As GPU Prices Slide, Galax Offers Price Guarantee

[Admin]

Galax says it will price guarantee its Nvidia GeForce TX 3060, 3060 Ti, 3070 Ti, 3080, 3080 Ti, 3090 and 3090 Ti products from today until June 18.

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The supply chain is getting worried of choking on unsold inventory? Sounds like great news for people who have been holding off.

 

[A Stoner]

At this point my RTX 2080 is gonna have to last until the new generation of cards come out. Not going to pay even retail at this point for a card that will be obsolete in just a few months.

 

[ezst036]

This significantly undercuts scalpers. I'm stoked!

 

[InvalidError]

This significantly undercuts scalpers. I'm stoked!

Since most GPU models are in stock at most first-party retailers, scalpers are pretty much out of the picture at this point apart from those who still need to get rid of their unsold stock, likely at a loss vs what they originally paid for.

 

[spentshells]

Since most GPU models are in stock at most first-party retailers, scalpers are pretty much out of the picture at this point apart from those who still need to get rid of their unsold stock, likely at a loss vs what they originally paid for.

Yeah now we are only being gouged by the original seller 😉

Upside is, I still wont pay 300 for a 3050.... im sure you'll testify.

Lucky I only play low end games

 

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Upside is, I still wont pay 300 for a 3050.... im sure you'll testify.

I'd love to have one... for no more than $250 CAN / ~$200 US.

 

[bigdragon]

Ever try to get a retailer like BestBuy, Amazon, Walmart, or even Sears to honor their own policies on price adjustments? What they advertise isn't always how things work out in practice. They usually have some complicated mechanism for recalculating what that lower price is or throw it out completely if it's part of special sale. Just changing the number of cents on the price can be enough to invalidate some pricing guarantees. Worse, will you get that adjustment as a refund or store credit? I'd rather just wait for the lower price than trusting a company to honor their own promises.

Wait it out, gamers and content creators. We've been waiting this long. We can keep waiting until the AIBs list prices at or below the FE products.

 

[InvalidError]

I'd rather just wait for the lower price than trusting a company to honor their own promises.

I wouldn't rely on a mail-in-rebate or equivalent as the deciding factor to buy something either. The up-front price has to meet my decision threshold by itself, the MIR is just gravy that I won't get too upset about if it falls through cracks for whatever reason.

The last thing I bought with MIR was an Audigy 2 audio card that was $100 CAN (boxing day sale) with a $50 mail-in rebate on top... except the refund came in as $35 USD and it cost me $10 to cash it in on top of $10 to send my MIR application as registered mail, so the $50 MIR turned into less than $30 net and a moderate amount of hassle. Not that I particularly cared about the MIR since $100 for an Audigy 2 was quite the steal at the time.

 

[DougMcC]

At this point my RTX 2080 is gonna have to last until the new generation of cards come out. Not going to pay even retail at this point for a card that will be obsolete in just a few months.

Very much agree. What gamer is going to spend even close to MSRP when they could spend that close to MSRP money on a 4 series card in a pretty short time from now. This generation of cards should be on closeout pricing.

 

[InvalidError]

Very much agree. What gamer is going to spend even close to MSRP when they could spend that close to MSRP money on a 4 series card in a pretty short time from now. This generation of cards should be on closeout pricing.

My prediction is that next-gen MSRPs will go up so much they will make current-gen MSRPs look good and there won't be much pressure to drop prices in the immediate future.

 

[drivinfast247]

Very much agree. What gamer is going to spend even close to MSRP when they could spend that close to MSRP money on a 4 series card in a pretty short time from now. This generation of cards should be on closeout pricing.

What makes you think they'll be at MSRP? And what is the MSRP?

4080 MSRP $1200

 

[plateLunch]

LOL. Classic price deflation behavior. Everyone holding off buying, waiting to see how low the price will go. Prices typically overshoot to the downside so don't jump too soon. I'm waiting for a 3050 at $150.

 

[InvalidError]

Prices typically overshoot to the downside so don't jump too soon. I'm waiting for a 3050 at $150.

Or it could go like the 1650S/1660S where the cards mostly vanish from the market before any viable replacement launches and the prices on remaining stock goes up $50-100.

 

[digitalgriffin]

I love the smell of desperation after so much greed.

My prediction remains the same. Maximum price change will occur about May 15th (2nd derivative inflection). Bottoming out late August/September.

 

[digitalgriffin]

Ever try to get a retailer like BestBuy, Amazon, Walmart, or even Sears to honor their own policies on price adjustments? What they advertise isn't always how things work out in practice. They usually have some complicated mechanism for recalculating what that lower price is or throw it out completely if it's part of special sale. Just changing the number of cents on the price can be enough to invalidate some pricing guarantees. Worse, will you get that adjustment as a refund or store credit? I'd rather just wait for the lower price than trusting a company to honor their own promises.

Wait it out, gamers and content creators. We've been waiting this long. We can keep waiting until the AIBs list prices at or below the FE products.

What big box retailers do is they get manufacturers to alter the SKU on the box and add or remove some trivial component like a dust cloth. Then when you come in and point out the price difference they say "Sorry UPC codes don't match. We can't honor it."

 

[digitalgriffin]

I wouldn't rely on a mail-in-rebate or equivalent as the deciding factor to buy something either. The up-front price has to meet my decision threshold by itself, the MIR is just gravy that I won't get too upset about if it falls through cracks for whatever reason.

The last thing I bought with MIR was an Audigy 2 audio card that was $100 CAN (boxing day sale) with a $50 mail-in rebate on top... except the refund came in as $35 USD and it cost me $10 to cash it in on top of $10 to send my MIR application as registered mail, so the $50 MIR turned into less than $30 net and a moderate amount of hassle. Not that I particularly cared about the MIR since $100 for an Audigy 2 was quite the steal at the time.

I loved the Audigy 2.

 

[digitalgriffin]

My prediction is that next-gen MSRPs will go up so much they will make current-gen MSRPs look good and there won't be much pressure to drop prices in the immediate future.

Possibly. I predict stagnation in $:FPS ratio. If so they can get bent, especially with inflation and recession hurting the biggest economies in the world.

 

[alceryes]

Since most GPU models are in stock at most first-party retailers, scalpers are pretty much out of the picture at this point apart from those who still need to get rid of their unsold stock, likely at a loss vs what they originally paid for.

Yup. This does put a smile on my face.
With new cards in stock at retail stores, AT RETAIL PRICES, many won't want to chance buying used cards.
No one wants a card that has been run 24x7x365, in non-ideal environments. These 'minimg' cards have already had the life sucked out of them. Many will have thermal issues and issues just keeping stock clocks for any length of time.