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Some mad people are bidding over $80,000 for an RTX 3080 right nowAbsolute scenes
Absolute scenes
We already knew that theRTX 3080 was likely to be short supplyuntil the end of the year, but this is something else entirely. TheeBay listinghas 105 bids on it at time of writing, with 200 people watching it - no doubt mostly for the entertainment value of watching some poor bastard spend their entire life savings on a heckin' graphics card, but still. What absolute scenes.
Hilariously, it doesn’t even seem like the listing is for a real card. In the title, it says: “Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 10GB GDRR6X 320-Bit Founders Edition Pre-order BESTBUY”, implying that these bonkers bidders are actually bidding to get someone else’s pre-order from Best Buy rather than a physical card that someone owns. The picture may show what appears to be an unboxed RTX 3080, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this had been scrimped from a tech site who did an unboxing video earlier in the week when reviews went up.
Heck, one’s already beensold for a ridiculous $50,000in just the last few minutes. Madness.
Needless to say, you shouldn’t be paying anywherenearthese sorts of prices for the RTX 3080, especially when it’s “only"meant to cost £649 / $699. To get one at a reasonable price, be sure to keep an eye on our regularly updatedRTX 3080hub page, where I’ll be adding in more pricing and availability information as soon as it comes through (although if you want to be really sensible about it, you should probably wait until AMD unveils theirBig Navicards at the end of October before you even think about laying any kind of money down anywhere).
At the moment, the RTX 3080 is pretty much sold out everywhere in the US, but some UK retailers are taking pre-orders with availability as early as tomorrow. Most retailers are expecting delays of at least a week, though, but the following from Ebuyer and Overclockers UK are probably the fastest way to get your hands on one right now:
From Overclockers UK:
From Ebuyer:
