The mining period and GPU scarcity is perhaps over, however scalpers are nonetheless making chaos within the GPU market. Scalpers have gone to city on Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4090, promoting playing cards at properly over MSRP on eBay (opens in new tab) — with some playing cards priced at $4000 and better.
eBay scalper listings begin at $2,299, and most costs sit within the $2500 to $3200 vary. On the excessive finish, we have seen them listed as excessive as $4,499 — although a lot of the offered listings are within the $2500 vary (our colleagues at PCGamer did some math and located that about 135 items have been offered yesterday, with a mean promoting worth of $2,524).