NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Rapidly Exceeding MSRP at Retailers Ahead of Release

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European retailers are already increasing the cost of custom GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards ahead of their official release on February 25. The news comes from VideoCardz, which noted that NVIDIA’s internal embargo guidelines had suggested that the GPUs would be sold at MSRP. Retailers have allegedly been using a trick to force enthusiasts who preordered early into paying higher prices, however.



“Unfortunately, we have regularly seen retailers canceling preorders, only to force customers to reorder the same card at a significantly higher price,” VideoCardz alleges. “So far NVIDIA has done absolutely nothing to prevent this from happening, but technically there is...

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[Brian_B]

I'm shocked

 

[Eduardo_Domingot]

This needs to be fixed ASAP, this is getting so out of hand.
I really hope this BS results in a few more factories being made in America to produce chips.

 

[Denpepe]

Yeah, I'm glad I got my 3080 when I did because now prices are really out of hand, AMD 6800XT cards over here go for more then the 3090 launch price and that's in regular stores, not 3rd party resellers or e-bay and the likes.

My 570 4gb will have to last a bit longer in my alll AMD system.

 

[Burticus]

Shocker

 

[Brian_B]

Shocker