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you guys remember how expensive graphics cards used to be right at least those of you who live in the United States right now you can buy new cards for about MSRP or something below that now which is something we have experienced for just about a year now a little more than that due to the fact that people were buying these cards in large quantities the demand shot up so the price shut up it's simple economics to talk about more in this video or right here but what I want to talk about in this video are the few sellers out there trying to get full asking price for their used hardware so if Joe Schmo went out in 2017 and bought himself an rx 580 for about $500 during the peak of the mining craze when demand was at its highest then he's going to expect a decent return in mid 2018 right if he paid 540 a year ago it's got to be worth somewhere around 500 bucks now right but that's not how markets work especially used markets right now you can buy new rx 5 a DS for under $300 in fact 8 gig cars are going for as cheap as about 240 bucks now on sites like newing and Amazon pretty incredible I have one link down below that I do recommend you check out if you're in the market but this guy here is trying to get around $500 for this card and I'm sorry there's no chance that's ever going to sell well I say that but I'm sure I'm overestimating the human intellect of some out there so the reason why this video exists is to bring your attention the fact that graphics card prices have come down significantly but also to point out those out there who are still trying to make a quick buck trying to con you into spending way more than you should for a used graphics car that I'm sure has been through the wringer especially it was mining right we're talking full power loads running 24/7 that's what money carts typically do those are the cards I would recommend staying away from especially if the people who were selling them won and you know full on retail price or above retail price currently for the car that they've been just abusing so let's check out the ad and see just how cringe-worthy it really is the Sennheiser PC 37 X is a new take on gaming headsets prioritizing both a sleek design and optimal comfort that's a tricky combo their audio is top-notch as always that's no surprise but the microphone here is a thing of a beauty you're actually listening to it right now not bad for a plug-and-play headset click the link in the video description for more details so here is the sapphire nitro rx 588 gig card in all of its glory and it better be glorious if he's asking 450 bucks for it mid August 2018 so I want to start off by reading the description of this card because he straight-up lies in this card I mean it's it's and it's our I'm misleading I'm just gonna go ahead and call it a lie because I've tested this card extensively and there's no way that it can do what he says it can do so he is definitely trying to mislead you and here is how Sapphire Radeon nitro rx 580 graphics card this video graphics card can play anything at 4k resolutions max out settings no problem a gigabytes of gddr5 overclockable edition first off every graphics card that's relatively modern is overclockable don't know why bother mentioning that it's great you gotta take a buffer though the 588 struggles at times to max out its buffer it gigs are still future-proof if you will but this statement right here can play anything at 4k resolutions max out settings no problem this is pure garbage I mean I guess you could say any card that's that supports 4k can max out settings in game but you're gonna have an absolutely terrible framerate so at least this I mean this is at least misleading at best at the worst it's outright lying its falsifying info for the purpose of trying to sell a product and you you probably I mean this would ultimately rest in the hands of the buyer to do due diligence and confirm that this card actually can do what the seller says it can do but it's it's lying it's it's misleading and it's trying to get people to buy a card based on false information in my opinion this should be illegal so I actually just finished messaging the guy I don't think you'd respond in time for the filming of this video but his response was the following I sent him the the link for the product that you could buy a new egg for around 280 bucks I mean you can buy these for as cheap as 239 dollars here with a $20 promo code this is from a soos but basically saying hey like I can get these new for 250 bucks are you still asking for 50 for this and his response was okay then do you want it for 250 bucks and I said well I don't want to pay 250 for a used card when I could buy the same card new for that price and then he responded something along the lines of well it's basically new only lightly used but okay and that's all I got from him so I assume he's not coming down off his 250 asking price now and that beckons the question is it worth buying this card used when you could get one new for maybe 20 30 bucks more the exact same model or one even cheaper than this that uses the same you know GPU but just is manufactured by a different company and the answer is no you should never buy a card like this used if you can spend the same amount of money and get one new with a viable warranty that likely hasn't been you know put through torture workloads like I'm sure this guy uses he says he bought it for 550 bucks I'm sure he bought it in the middle of the mining craze and he may have actually used this card for mining so we'll see this is just you know this could be just a miner trying to liquidate his assets right trying to get rid of the cards these no longer using or instead of using and trying to either make a return on it or get as much of his money back as possible but I'm sorry the market is not on your side but in the midst of this statement here that he bought it new for 550 bucks another issue that I have is that he says like this is so vague easily be its GTX versions this is the latest and greatest okay well what GTX versions are you talking about I this this is like your cue that he's uninformed about the about the card itself he's uninformed about the entire competition going on between a Vidya and AMD if you're trying to sell a product and you're willing to just make bland statements and dark that aren't backed by anything then you should probably as the buyer or potential buyer do a bit of research into these statements to verify or deny them and a GTX version that he's talking about I'm sure is a gtx 1060 but even even then I mean the 1060 is in general a better dx11 performer that 580 does a little better at the x12 there are more stream processors different things that work with those different api's but in a nutshell I mean this statement here is not true easily beats GTX versions I mean yeah okay beats the 1050 it beats the 1030 but the car that this competes directly with the GTX 1060 it does not easily beat there there are there are no games out there where this card absolutely destroys the 1060 so another statement again that's just misleading trying to make the sale and frankly a little disgusting that he's willing to do this in try his best to take advantage of someone who isn't willing to do again an ounce of research down here just specifications he copied and pasted all this crap from from websites so it's really not interesting but these statements up here I just feel like like come on dude this is a con at best now the side note these cards have definitely come down in price if you aren't into AMD cards that say you want the 1060 instead just because you're more familiar with GeForce experience what have you these cards are they're a little more expensive in general the 1066 eight cards are still costing around 300 bucks if you can find a 1066 gig for under $300 I'd say that's a pretty good bargain here's a 6 gig here for $2.99 and it's 289 after $10 rebate if you want to account for rebates oftentimes it takes forever to get your money back from these things but this is much better right than what it used to be so graphics card prices have definitely come down and some people including this guy right here just don't want to believe that that's the case so if he asked me what I would offer this guy exchange for his used rx 580 I'd say not a dime over 200 bucks that's around a 20% discount for a used card and we don't know how heavily it was abused it was used for mining is strictly gaming but at the end of the day doesn't matter it all comes down to what you feel your money is worth if you're going to risk everything for the sake of not having a warranty to save 40 bucks then go right ahead at the end of the day it's your money you decide how to spend it but don't do this guy any favors don't give him more than the card is worth new to me it makes absolutely no sense all you're doing is making him feel like he's justified in his asking price and I just want to I want to tell this guy that he's just completely detached from reality it just it it's funny to see people ask for these prices they think that they can get their money back despite what the new market is telling them but at the same time it also just makes me angry because I know that somebody out there especially someone who doesn't watch this video right since it's a two minutes of it to know what I have to say about it someone might actually fall for this right so this video is more of a PSA most of my craziest videos are to show you guys that there are people out there trying to take advantage of you and if you don't do an ounce of research you will be the person to fall victim to this scam I think that's what it is I think it's an outright scam and anybody who's not willing to take the time to look up on do a Gramma's on the fact that these prices are coming out significantly the new market deserves to be scammed that's how I see it let me know you think in the 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