Been trying to find a new graphics card to do a new PC build for a year now....

Anyone having luck? Anyone know of any waiting lists out there.

This has been a problem for 2 years now. I had to trade up 4 times to get my 3070ti. Your best bet is waiting at a store like Best Buy when they have a drop. I tried for 2 years to get a card online and the bots beat me out every time.

It’s my understanding that high end graphics cards are scarce due to bitcoin mining?

Have you tried eBay or even maybe a WTB ad here?

Good. Fed up is good. Shortages are the friends of the people who love this country. The more shortages we have, and of longer duration, the more people will get fed up. The more people get fed up, the sooner well get back to normal.

Shortages happen to the unprepared.

/s/Grandpappy//s//

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
Shortages happen to the unprepared.

/s/Grandpappy//s//

With some things... but I'm unsure of how I could have possibly prepared for a shortage of something that didn't even exist before this pandemic nonsense.... The graphics card I'm trying to buy hadn't even been developed yet and wasn't available for sale....

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Good. Fed up is good. Shortages are the friends of the people who love this country. The more shortages we have, and of longer duration, the more people will get fed up. The more people get fed up, the sooner well get back to normal.

Sure, but I was fed up way before that. I'm not exactly in the group of people who need to START being outraged.

What card are you looking for specifically? What's your budget?

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Originally posted by SIG4EVA:
What card are you looking for specifically? What's your budget?

I'd take pretty much any 30 series GeForce card... The ones i see online are 2 to 3 times the price... Ebay has 3060's for about 800 bucks for a 329.99 card.

I'm not going to reward a scalper.

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Originally posted by KevinCW:

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
Shortages happen to the unprepared.

/s/Grandpappy//s//

With some things... but I'm unsure of how I could have possibly prepared for a shortage of something that didn't even exist before this pandemic nonsense.... The graphics card I'm trying to buy hadn't even been developed yet and wasn't available for sale....

Can’t have a shortage then.

Remember Cabbage Patch Kids?

Demand is currently exceeding supply for a short (less than 7 years) demand item.

By the time supply can get to your level of consumerisem, demand will be focused on the next item.

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:

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Originally posted by KevinCW:

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
Shortages happen to the unprepared.

/s/Grandpappy//s//

With some things... but I'm unsure of how I could have possibly prepared for a shortage of something that didn't even exist before this pandemic nonsense.... The graphics card I'm trying to buy hadn't even been developed yet and wasn't available for sale....

Can’t have a shortage then.

Remember Cabbage Patch Kids?

Demand is currently exceeding supply for a short (less than 7 years) demand item.

By the time supply can get to your level of consumerisem, demand will be focused on the next item.

Sure... but how could I have prepared for it?

Newegg does a lottery just about every day for their limited supply of cards. Grab the app.

I'm sick of this shit too, other than unforeseen purchases, I have back up everything and manage to get lucky most of the time, the times I don't I go to Amazon, even though they are one of my last choices.

Luckily outside of work I've not faced any shortage I couldn't substitute or shop harder for. I'd be really pissed if my graphics card shit the bed right now or if I needed to buy a car.

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Originally posted by KevinCW:

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:

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Originally posted by KevinCW:

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
Shortages happen to the unprepared.

/s/Grandpappy//s//

With some things... but I'm unsure of how I could have possibly prepared for a shortage of something that didn't even exist before this pandemic nonsense.... The graphics card I'm trying to buy hadn't even been developed yet and wasn't available for sale....

Can’t have a shortage then.

Remember Cabbage Patch Kids?

Demand is currently exceeding supply for a short (less than 7 years) demand item.

By the time supply can get to your level of consumerisem, demand will be focused on the next item.

Sure... but how could I have prepared for it?

How are you currently prepared fir that item not presented for sale yet?

Buy yesterday’s fir .25%.

The liquor store was out of the big bottles of Maker's Mark the other day. Schit it getting real now.

There are still truck tires (semi truck) available but selection is diminishing. If that gets bad you have a compounding problem.

Yeah, shitty timing, largely unrelated to Covid. This is amongst the worst times in history to be shopping for higher end PC graphics card. Crypto has wrecked that entire scene.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
...I'd be really pissed...or if I needed to buy a car.

^^^^
My two oldest kids were both rear-ended late spring. We were able to repair one vehicle but the other was totaled. We've looked for a new car but I'm not paying what dealers are asking for right now. And, obviously, you can't have another car in storage. One Toyota dealer wanted 15k above MSRP. Right, I'm all over that. What I do know is when I buy, if it's a Toyota, it won't be you.

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
The liquor store was out of the big bottles of Maker's Mark the other day. Schit it getting real now.

I'm going to chalk that one up to the holidays and everyone buying booze. My local store was completely out of Knob Creek. Plenty of Maker's though. Hopefully the Knob Creek eill be restocked when I go back tomorrow.

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I got on the EVGA waiting list Sept of 2020 for an RTX 3080 (10G-P5-3897-KR) and was able to get it at the original retail price around February 2021. I still see the same part number on Ebay selling double what I paid (used) and sometimes 2.5 times what I paid for a used one. It's nuts. There is no end in sight for the GPU shortage, unless you want to pay the jacked up price for one.

I think if you have a Microcenter near you, that is your best bet. They have some kind of voucher system. Newegg has a lottery of sorts too.