Unless you’re lucky, have connections, or are willing to pay for bots or scalpers, you might not be able to find one at all - and retailers have don't have the right incentives to fix that. The shortages feel very real: maybe a hundred RTX 3080 cards changed hands on December 3rd, even fewer RTX 3070 cards, and only 27 of the new AMD cards trickled down to eBay buyers that day.Īs we’ve discussed repeatedly at The Verge, all of these items are practically impossible to buy at an actual store for their retail price right now. Almost every single card I saw found a buyer, save the most exorbitantly priced RTX 3090s - and even there, there were a handful of $2,400 and $2,500 sales for what’s nominally a $1,500 GPU.
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On the PC side of things, the new Nvidia and AMD graphics cards appear to be in incredibly short supply judging by eBay listings, though.
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(Most PS5 Digital Edition and Xbox Series S seemed to be selling, but there were also far fewer of them listed than the disc-based models.) In terms of volume, the PS5 and new Xboxes each moved around 1,000 units on eBay on December 3rd alone, but some $1,000 PS5 and $850 Xbox Series X listings ran out the clock without getting sold. If there’s a bright spot for would-be console buyers, it’s that not every PS5 and Xbox listed on eBay is actually selling, even if quite a few are. (Some Xboxes with extra accessories seemed to be worth $50 to $100 more than others, but people are clearly buying for the consoles themselves.) All this means unless the situation changes drastically, the scalping isn’t going to stop anytime soon. While scanning through, I also saw that including extra games, controllers or accessories isn't even necessary: sometimes it was enough to justify an extra $100 or $200, but a PS5 didn’t need one to rake in $1K or more. I didn’t weed out any open-box or used consoles to get to these numbers, and you can easily see how strong the PS5’s demand is in particular: even the PS5 Digital Edition (without the disc drive) is worth nearly as much as the disc version that retails for $100 more. PS5, Xbox, GPU street prices: Holiday 2020 Item I ran the same numbers for the PS5 Digital Edition, the new Xboxes and all six graphics cards. Mind you, that’s not the asking price: that’s what people are actually paying for these consoles. But it’s easily worth double that on eBay : I averaged the actual final sale price of a hundred PS5s, subtracting a few sketchy outliers, to arrive at a street price of $1,024. (That's capitalism for you.)Įxample: The full-fat PlayStation 5 with a disc drive retails for $499.99. They’re so high even folks like me, who bought one intending to use it, might have to think twice. It no longer surprises me how each big ticket holiday gaming gadget sells out nigh-instantly anytime they’re restocked the incentive for scalpers is just too high. Wow, are they worth a lot!Īnd it’s not just the PlayStation 5 - I found that Xbox Series X and S, Nvidia’s RTX 3090, 3080, 3070, and 3060 Ti graphics cards, and AMD’s rival RX 68 XT GPUs are all commanding incredibly high prices on the resale market. My daughter and I had beaten Astro Bot and Miles Morales, so I thought I’d peek at the resale market. I wouldn’t dream of becoming a scalper, but it’s getting hard to ignore just how much it’s worth. This past week I’ve been watching eBay, trying to decide if I should sell my PS5.
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