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0 pointskadoban4y ago0 comments

In the current market, you have essentially no way to buy from a manufacturer or primary retailer. You have to get _insanely_ lucky to be able to do so.

So you're essentially saying nobody is going to be looking for any warranties on any cards, which is quite wrong.

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AnssiH4y ago· 1 in thread

Around here (Finland) there is a moderate amount of various cards in stock at the biggest computer retailers, the prices are just high:

https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/catalog/706b/Naytonohjaimet/... (in-stock cards)

https://www.jimms.fi/fi/Product/List/000-00P/komponentit--na... (cards sorted by stock)

kadobanOP4y ago

Yeah you're right, it does depend where you are. I can only speak for US market.

Animats4y ago

In the current market, you have essentially no way to buy from a manufacturer or primary retailer.

It's not impossible. Central Computer, Silicon Valley's main chain of computer stores, has a buying office in Shenzhen. So a lot of stuff goes directly from factory to them. This avoids the detour through Alibaba to somebody's garage to Amazon.

xxs4y ago

in EU, you can just buy cards at amazon - the prices are what they are... 2100€ for 3080ti, sold by amazon, themselves.

Being amazon you have the easiest returns ever, just send a complaint and send it back, they will return the money and both shipping costs.

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