Nvidia Settles Price Fixing Lawsuit

[wh3resmycar]

hmmm. every one of us who bought an ati or nvidia card deserve justice.. if only we can line those 2 a-holes who fixed this up and let us throw "intel" boxes with a larrabee watermark on their faces.

maybe the gtx's/3800/4800s couldve been offered at 75% of its current price, or maybe 20$ couldve been slashed off my 9600gt.

corporate greed FTL!

 

[dirtmountain]

I commented on this when the lawsuit was first announced. This is just Nvidia and ATI paying off the lawyers to keep from spending multi millions or more in attorney fees. Along with escaping the risk of a finding against them is a screwed up San Francisco court. Big deal. 2 lawyers pocket about a million bucks for a few weeks worth of work. No consumer gets squat out of it and ATI and Nvidia raise the prices about a nicjel to recoup the loss. This whole story is only about a couple of shyster lawyers who know how to "work" the system.

 

[Guest]

and what about the rest of the world? I;m in New Zealand and for me the high end offerings from both AMD and Nvidia are the same price ($1000 to $1200 depending) why should we have to pay so much more, if the Nvidia high end offering is 400 USD then i should only have to pay 597.9 NZD yet i would pay almost double that. Same applies for AMD $549 USD yet i pay 1000 NZ when i should pay 820.

The prices are ridiculous, although at least for me the AMD one is a much smaller increase in price. Perhaps this lawsuit should focus on the rest of the world not America since its the rest of the world that pays so much more than you.

 

[randomizer]

NZ retailers rip you off, pretty simple really. They do the same here in Aus, but to a lesser extent.

 

[chaohsiangchen]

[citation][nom]pug_s[/nom]I just got a Geforce 9600 GSO for $36 after rebate. Compared to processors, video cards are pretty affordable. This lawsuit is kind of dumb.[/citation]

Dude, this law suit was about price fixing by two companies during 2002-2005.

 

[v12v12]

LMFAO@Sheeple: "Prices aren't that bad," Ummm HELLO, the goal of the consumer is to get products for the LEAST amount possible Vs the corp, who would like to have us paying as MUCH as possible. Some people here have been fooled into believing a certain price range is "fair," Vs huge profits reaped b/c of this flawed mentality. So I guess by that mentality people wouldn't/shouldn't have a problem paying $150 for a pair of basketball shoes that only cost $~7-10 to make by foreign children, in sweatshops, inhaling toxic poisons? Guess who gets the profit and benefit... certainly not us. I guess the same could be said about a Video card that might cost $15 to make, but since some of you think it's some how worth more, you'll pay the %500 markup huh? Geesh.

 

[Guest]

These two guys are nothing more than a low life unemployed looking for money. Come on, no one putting a freaking gun to your head and force you to buy anything. No wonder this country is all f**** up. People like these two losers and those CEO who gets paid $100+ millions per year or should be shot. Enough said.

 

[Guest]

v12v12: "I guess the same could be said about a Video card that might cost $15 to make, but since some of you think it's some how worth more, you'll pay the %500 markup huh? Geesh."

Yes. If you think the money asked is worth the product, according to your own system of value, you'll pay the price and buy the product. If you think the price is too high, you won't pay it. What, precisely, is wrong with this? Value is not determined by the cost of something to the producer, or the amount of labor that went into it... value is an entirely subjective concept that each individual determines on their own. Consumer demand determines value in a corporate world: The corporation will try to sell their product at the highest price that the greatest number of people will pay for it. The higher the demand for a product, the greater the price. The greater the supply grows, the lower the price. High end graphics cards are economically scarce in this sense. You could force the video card maker to sell their card for less, but in effect all you would do is cause shortages of supply and waiting lists for graphics cards.

The ignorance of basic economic theory in the world astounds me.

 

[v12v12]

Marketing and more marketing... I don't have to adopt nor agree with basic economic theory: It's NOT static and doesn't always apply. And in the consumer market where people are ignorant of something’s production cost price X, but ASSUME it's current price Y is "fair," they are shorting themselves. Of course people don't HAVE to buy anything, but being people are HUMANS with often flawed emotions at the controls—hence why MARKETING dominates many businesses’ models. Ploys and hype blah blah play off human emotions and eventually CON people into paying more than they ought, and making irrational purchases. Hence why I'm using a perfectly functioning 8800 GTS USED off Ebay for nearly 50% off Vs the typical irrational/impulse shopper who spends full price + markups. Denial of impulsive shopping and marketing ploys to the weak minded or easily fooled cannot be denied.

Spout all the jargon you want, but the fact remains: when people are shelling out $100's of dollars for cards that can barely play today games at mid-high settings/res, and are soon to be out dated with in mere months... The market is fixed... Hence why the legendary Radeon 9800Pro and its ability to formerly play games years after its release is OVER. Gamers are being duped into buying cards that won't even budge a newer title: fancy graphical misrepresentations on boxes of games, reviews and the like—all part of the marketing con to get people buying into buying mediocre cards soon to be outdated by another rushed model. It's called technological-METERING buddy. And if you can spreaaaaaaad out as many models of cores/cards as you can and keep people constantly buying, while they are getting very little in return for their full price upgrade, you'll be rich fleecing the flock. Hence PRO's for big business to fix prices and METER out minuscule core/memory updates, while the user shells out FULL price—a fixed price that keeps big execs fat and idiot sheep sheared. Apparently YOUR touting of Econ 101 leads to you getting an ego trip by reading your own words and NOT effectively affecting anyone's perception about smart shopping... lmao, enjoy and keep your nose in a book, nobody else cares.

I love it... by YOUR assertions, MARKETING depts wouldn't even be needed if everyone followed Econ 101 to the letter as it is "supposed" to be followed…As flawed logic dictates in a trite online debate, but in REALITY it's hardly the case. Your logic makes sense in a theoretical niche, BUT in real life it’s flawed b/c LIFE isn’t always nor hardly “logical.” Blame the victims, and slap the wrists of cheating businesses; yeah I can tell what side of the mental spectrum you’re on…RIIIIGHT?

 

[Narg]

What about ATI's side of that e-mail conversation? It seems I'm 100% correct in my statements elsewhere on TH that nVidia cares more about stock investors rather than consumers!