News Colorful Offers Up To $1,000 For Old GPUs In New Trade-In Program

[Admin]

Colorful runs a new GPU trade-in program for consumers that want to buy a GeForce RTX 40-series (Ada Lovelace) graphics card.

Colorful Offers Up To $1,000 For Old GPUs In New Trade-In Program : Read more

 

[punkncat]

I guess had you disclosed "in China" that would lead to much less traffic on the link. Pretty much a waste of life for anyone else to read. Thanks.

 

[healthy Pro-teen]

I guess had you disclosed "in China" that would lead to much less traffic on the link. Pretty much a waste of life for anyone else to read. Thanks.

But that would mean less clicks less money, it's probably on purpose.

 

[bit_user]

When GPU prices started plummeting, last fall, this is not much less than the price I decided I was willing to pay for these cards (new!), if prices kept dropping:

Model	Value (U.S. Dollar)
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti	$622
GeForce RTX 3080	$492

Needless to say, I didn't buy anything.

That they feel they can buy used cards for this much, refurbish them, and turn around to sell them at a profit tells us just how far we've come from those days...

 

[bit_user]

I guess had you disclosed "in China" that would lead to much less traffic on the link. Pretty much a waste of life for anyone else to read.

Not if you know the typical price differential between the US and China. If you do, then it could be relevant market data.

 

[punkncat]

Not if you know the typical price differential between the US and China. If you do, then it could be relevant market data.

Not if they aren't offering the trade in discount anywhere but China. Did you bother to read the post, or just come to blindly disagree with the comment for points?

 

[bit_user]

Not if they aren't offering the trade in discount anywhere but China.

Yes, I understood that.

Did you bother to read the post,

Always. I read 100% of every single article I comment on, and every single post I reply to. Do you?

or just come to blindly disagree with the comment for points?

Nope. I don't even look at points. Until you mentioned it, it didn't occur to me that points might be awarded for anything other than Best Anwser. Even if it turns out that Likes -> points, it still wouldn't change what and how I post one single bit. I'm not here to be popular and points don't matter to me, as I don't do games.

Instead of getting defensive and snippy, how about you take a second and consider what I said. If a company is paying $X for used GPUs, then it must mean that they can turn around sell them for $X + refurbishment costs + any warranty they provide for the refurbished product + enough profit margin to make it interesting. I find it surprising that they're willing to pay so much, and it makes me wonder why. Are GPUs really that much more expensive, in China? And how much of that is due to taxes & tariffs, because we all know that most GPUs are probably still assembled there.

Unlike presumably yourself, I didn't click on the article with the intention of selling a GPU. I clicked on it out of curiosity.