We live in times in which four-digit purchase amounts for a graphics card are not uncommon, not even for used models. It is a rare change to read about an extremely low purchase price instead of an extremely high one.
So did a Reddit user according to their own statements had the incredible luck to discover a completely unpackaged RTX graphics card on a swap meet, which the seller himself did not recognize as such. The result: A purchase price of 18 US dollars, which is hardly worth mentioning.
If the GPU were always so cheap, it would appear much more frequently in the Steam statistics. You can find out how big the difference between the GPUs there and in the GameStar community is here:
Poor clueless salesman
Anyone who only deals a little with gaming on the PC can hardly imagine not recognizing a current graphics card as such. With the seller in question, however, it was obviously completely different, as the description of the sales pitch makes clear:
I approached the seller and asked, “What’s that?”. He said, “It’s a portable, rechargeable fan. If you want it, it’s $20.” I said, “I don’t even know if it works. Can you make $15 out of this?” He wanted $18 and I said “what the hell, that’s fair for a ‘portable, rechargeable fan'”.
There are certainly people who would feel bad about such a purchase, especially since the graphics card has proven to be fully functional so far.
For comparison: The currently cheapest (new) RTX 3080 Ti is listed at Geizhals at a price of around 1,230 dollars. Their availability is getting worse and worse in the course of the RTX 4000 graphics cards that have already been released, but they were generally hardly available for less than 1,000 dollars. On the other hand, the RTX 3080 without is not much slower, but more available and much cheaper Of
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Fake or real?
Whether all of this actually happened can never be said with certainty with such stories. Especially since one can also ask oneself how the graphics card ended up with the unsuspecting seller. A look at that Reddit user profile makes a fake look rather unlikely.
At least the account has been around for over two years and has been used very little actively so far. However, we will probably never be certain about this.
What do you think of this story? Unbelievable luck that you would like to have too? A questionable action, because the seller obviously didn’t even know what a high value there was on his table? Or not worth mentioning because in your eyes it probably isn’t a true story anyway? Feel free to write it in the comments!
