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JEMC said:

https://store.steampowered.com

Are your wallets safe?

Well there are 23 items on my wishlist that are at 75% off or more, so probably not. The ones I am eyeing the most are Enter the Gungeon and Tower Princess.



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JEMC said:

https://store.steampowered.com

Are your wallets safe?

Only 20% off for Baldur's Gate III. Was this game publsihed by Nintendo??



NyanNyanNekoChan said:

It looks like GPU stock issues in the UK are slowly improving—still a long way to go before being reasonable.
At the very least, I’m consistently seeing overpriced 5070 Ti, 5070, and 5080 models available, as opposed to everything being out of stock. I even saw the 9070 XT in stock for a few hours on Wednesday at £660 before eventually selling out.

Not ideal, but at least availability is trending upward!

Yeah there has actually been quite a lot of 5070Ti and 5080's available this week with a few different 5070Ti's at £799 (£70 above MSRP) and easily available for £829 and I've seen 5080's buyable for £1150-1200 which is still bad but the 40 series still had these kind of prices 6 months after launch and the 4080/Super never really went below £1000 so maybe pricing won't get much better.

The 9070XT has been buyable at what AIB's have decided is the MSRP £669 (£100 above) at multiple sites since launch if your willing to pay that and I don't think we will see it go below that anytime soon at least in reasonable numbers but OC-UK say large shipments of the 9070XT are due over the next 1-2 weeks but all cards are priced above MSRP there also.

9070 is £20-70 above MSRP and lots of stock.



WoodenPints said:
NyanNyanNekoChan said:

It looks like GPU stock issues in the UK are slowly improving—still a long way to go before being reasonable.
At the very least, I’m consistently seeing overpriced 5070 Ti, 5070, and 5080 models available, as opposed to everything being out of stock. I even saw the 9070 XT in stock for a few hours on Wednesday at £660 before eventually selling out.

Not ideal, but at least availability is trending upward!

Yeah there has actually been quite a lot of 5070Ti and 5080's available this week with a few different 5070Ti's at £799 (£70 above MSRP) and easily available for £829 and I've seen 5080's buyable for £1150-1200 which is still bad but the 40 series still had these kind of prices 6 months after launch and the 4080/Super never really went below £1000 so maybe pricing won't get much better.

The 9070XT has been buyable at what AIB's have decided is the MSRP £669 (£100 above) at multiple sites since launch if your willing to pay that and I don't think we will see it go below that anytime soon at least in reasonable numbers but OC-UK say large shipments of the 9070XT are due over the next 1-2 weeks but all cards are priced above MSRP there also.

9070 is £20-70 above MSRP and lots of stock.

AFAIK the board partners can't really decide what the MSRP models should be priced at, unless they just refuse to supply many of them and only want to sell the models with an unnecessary amount of gizmos on them. Even the markups on those overpriced models should still mostly be up to the discretion of the retailers.

The Red Devil here was $1500 NZD at launch up $180 from the $1320 Sapphire Pulse, a 12% markup. And for a slight update, both the Powercolor Reaper and Sapphire Pulse are still available on backorder for that original $1320 price. They have increased the Red Devil to $1550 (also on backorder).

Meanwhile in the states on launch day, Microcenter had a lot more models available at the MSRP price but they were also marking up models like the Red Devil to something ridiculous like 40% above MSRP. That's not just on the AIBs but moreso the retailers feeling for demand on certain models and people still willing to buy them regardless of cost. A lot of those heavily marked up models were selling at Microcenter while they had MSRP models available. That's why I found Gamer Nexus' video on the topic slightly disingenous; you can say the retailers or the board partners don't have to supply so many of those extra models, but if they're also supplying more than enough MSRP models and people still choose to go another direction, who does that ultimately fall on?