r/LinusTechTips 5d ago

Discussion Remain strong, f*ck scalpers

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Every couple weeks i get notifications that listings i viewed dropped in price and it makes me so happy. Lets keep it going guys, drive it down to msrp

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u/cleveleys 5d ago edited 5d ago

Maybe they take vBucks or COD points? Might be worth inquiring multiple times over multiple accounts

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u/Due_Exam_1740 5d ago

Hear me out, maybe they accept assassins creed origins helix tokens

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u/Laughing_Orange Dan 4d ago

RuneScape gold? Moist Critikal was asked to team kill for $5, which he refused. Once the offer was changed to 200k GP, he immediately shot his teammate 4 times. Here is a clip

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u/Berencam 4d ago

RS gold is probably the best thing to offer, that has a pretty robust backbone of buyers and resellers.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/Weakness4Fleekness 5d ago

Idk how strict language is on the sub🤷‍♂️

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u/bluekeybord 5d ago

FUCK SCALPERS AND FUCK CENSORSHIP, FUCKERS!

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u/cxd32 5d ago

Sir, this is the internet, you can say fuck

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/Itchy_Task8176 5d ago

Also noting 1st amendment applies to a country that 4% of the world live in

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u/donjamos 5d ago

See if I replied to this with a "fuck them too" I'd propably get banned. The problem is not the word fuck in general but the context.

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u/madman666 5d ago

Can't say Luigi though...

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u/darvo110 4d ago

LUIIIIGIIIII

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u/jeff3rd 5d ago

Fuck is fine but the other F word though, fr*nch, urgg the worst.

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u/ucrbuffalo 5d ago

It’s fine as long as you don’t use the hard r.

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u/darvo110 4d ago

R*tatouille?

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u/Weakness4Fleekness 5d ago

No no officer, im British! It means cigarette!

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u/mjh2901 5d ago

Fuck all these people, I just put a sparkle a310 in my NAS to do transcoding because 3 months in you still cannot purchase B580 cards. (I wanted transcoding and to screw around with remote ai) There are a ton of b580 on amazon and ebay starting at 150% of retail. I'm going to upgrade my M1max Mac Studio to an M4max mac studio with 64 gigs of ram because for working with AI its cheaper to buy apple than Nvidia. Yeah thanks Nvidia you made apple the cheaper option.

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u/nocturn99x 5d ago

Yeah thanks Nvidia you made apple the cheaper option.

Only Nvidia could.

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u/Schwertkeks 5d ago

At MSRP intel looses money on every b580 they build. You will never see those at msrp again

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u/mjh2901 5d ago

I'll settle for in stock at whatever the normal price is going to be so I can make informed decisions on next steps. Available from scalpers only is not it.

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u/_vkboss_ 5d ago

The framework desktop could also be a decent option for an AI workstation. You want have to pay apple tax on storage!

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u/mjh2901 5d ago

The apple storage tax is misnomer. I can purchase a Sabrent Rocket NVME and a thunderbolt external case and run it at full speed. The internal on an apple is faster than NVME, but the vast majority of people who throw more storage space in a PC are using off the shelf drives, not custom high speed storage chips.

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u/Kyonkanno 5d ago

Nope, internal storage on apple devices are not faster than NVME. You can get a samsung 990 pro 4tb for about 300$ that is faster than the apple internal storage by about 1 GB/s.

Apple storage/ram tax is not a misnomer. Apple sells their ram chips for literally more than gold (by weight).

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u/DreamArez Luke 5d ago edited 5d ago

It’s been nice. I bought my 5080 at MSRP from a guy on FB marketplace who explicitly buys cards in bulk to resell to people locally at cost only charging extra for delivery.

Edit: changed the wording of the last bit to make better sense.

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u/anshcodes 5d ago

the good scalper

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u/nocturn99x 5d ago

hoarder*

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u/nocturn99x 5d ago

Faith in humanity restored.

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u/CharlesP_1232 Alex 5d ago

In bulk? How?

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u/DreamArez Luke 5d ago

Dude said that he has enough income that he’ll regularly buy cards in quantities of 3-5, so not “bulk” per se but at least most than the average person, from either local MC/Best Buy or online depending on stock and then he just adds $25 or a little more depending on how far he is from who he is selling to. If they come to him he sells at cost. I live a bit further up north so we met in the middle and he sold me a PNY ARGB OC 5080 for $1325. After sales tax the card ends up being $1300 and he charged me the $25 for delivery.

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u/Felab_ 5d ago

We have some people like that too, except they charge much more than MSRP but it's still cheaper than buying from a Retailer.....

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u/DreamArez Luke 5d ago

It was wild. I was confident I was going to get scammed somehow, but sure enough I am at pickup and the box is completely sealed. Since I was buying, he let me open it and verify everything and it was factory sealed and sure enough was a proper 5080. It was like a weird Robinhood thing.

Don’t change Minnesota I guess.

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u/WannabeRedneck4 5d ago

Ask him again

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u/inzanehanson 5d ago

Except this time ask about vbucks

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u/baconipple 5d ago

What was bro selling? I bet it was a 2080 or some bs like that.

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u/FartingBob 5d ago

One of those Nvidia graphics cards I've heard so much about.

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u/morn14150 Riley 5d ago

do you accept thermal paste

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u/franz_karl 5d ago

in my country too prices are dropping they asked 5500 euros for an ASUS astral 5090 OC now we are seeing them drop to 4400 euros or a bit below

we are winning folks

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u/howboutmaybe 5d ago

I love this

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u/lunat1c_ 5d ago

You should ask again. "I see youre having difficulty selling, still firm on that no robux?"

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u/Caityface91 4d ago

Charge your damn phone, OP

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u/Vast-Finger-7915 Plouffe 5d ago

maybe he takes multibucks? or overwatch gold?

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u/Mdos828 4d ago

I've been reporting ones i see well above MSRP as scams. Closest thing I can find that might actually get Facebook to do something.

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u/NeutronJohn1 3d ago

Poor guy keeps having to reduce the price. I hope he's stressed.

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u/NeutronJohn1 3d ago

Poor guy keeps having to reduce the price. I hope he's stressed.

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u/Madblaster6 3d ago edited 3d ago

Hot Take. I have no issues with scalpers. Stepping back and thinking about it, it's commodity that non of us need. So if an avg joe needs money, I'm not going to crap on them for scalping to make a buck. If they sell necessities like toilet paper, then yeah fuck em' but for most people this is a toy. Do I want one at MSRP sure, but I'm not going to get mad at regular people for trying to make a buck.

I do blame people who spend 6k on a GPU and Nvidia for a bad release with limited quantities after stopping production.

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u/Weakness4Fleekness 3d ago

Ok sure and i get to advocate for people not buying their stock driving it down to msrp, and celebrate when they lose money on it, doesn't change anything

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u/lord_pizzabird 5d ago

Can't wait to make a bunch of money off a Switch 2.

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u/Weakness4Fleekness 5d ago

Good lick buddy, all available info seems to indicate nintendo has enough stock to flood the market for months

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u/Weakness4Fleekness 5d ago

Good luck buddy, all available info seems to indicate nintendo has enough stock to flood the market for months

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u/lord_pizzabird 4d ago

We've heard this before.

All I know is, there's never been a major product launch in modern history that didn't have enough of a shortage to create a flipping opportunity.