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GPU prices are tanking. They seem to be falling by the hour.

Where can you see this?

I've been looking on eBay but can't see any change. I'd like to buy a lot of GPUs but don't know where to look

eBay is tough because the prices you see are the prices the sellers want. I don't think it's in eBay's interest to show you the real price.

If not on eBay, where, then? The list of "sold" cards on eBay appear to me to be a pretty good starting point, but if there's something I don't know, like "everyone on eBay is a scalper" (which is not implausible) then where should I be looking?

/r/hardwareswap

In the Advanced Search, you can include completed listings and sold listings. This is a much better indicator of market prices for consumer goods.

I didn't know this! Thanks

They only keep them for a relatively short time last time I looked so one has to manually save data after scraping it for longer term trends, vaguely remember it being forever then they cut it to six month and I think it's three now, plus if there is a lot in the category you are searching there's no way to sort it to see the oldest anymore.

For price-tracking overall, someone posted this elsewhere:

https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/video-card/

I appreciate that they're making the information available to us, but the graphs are awful, so many elementary design mistakes

Why didn't people sell before the merge? Did they think it wouldn't happen?

Because they want to mine until the last second, supposedly there will be a lot less ETH being generated after the merge so each one will be worth more.

> supposedly there will be a lot less ETH being generated after the merge so each one will be worth more

This has been hands-down the most ignorant view of the ETH-merge proponents. The floor of the currency is tied to the cost to mine. There's minimal cost to mine now. The price will fall. It's not a supply vs demand problem.

> The floor of the currency is tied to the cost to mine.

This is not true because of difficulty adjustment. If the price drops enough so miners are losing money, some of them quit, the difficulty adjusts downward, and the economics improve for the remaining miners.

"worth" depends on price.

Given that crypto miners weren't willing to think ahead to the consequences of countries needing to fire coal power plants back up to meet their demand, or the problems with continuing to crypto mine during multiple worldwide energy crises, I am not surprised if they didn't think ahead to what would happen if the Ethereum merge happened exactly as planned.

Finally we beat inflation

If only I could eat a PCB.

Oh, you can.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22944-pica

I know this is a drive-by joke, but in fact speculative bubbles (crypto among them) were among the big drivers of last year's inflation hump. Production was still suppressed by the pandemic, lots of expenditures (travel, etc...) were likewise suppressed, yet bank account balances were still around and wanting to be spent.

Broadly: what do you do when you can't go to Cancun like you planned? You bet on Doge and GME, apparently. (Or you declare yourself a "VC" and start handing out checks to 20-something quarantined hackers.) Then you just end up with more money you can't spend.

Hey, do you have any resource which tracks these, and historical prices in real time?

Just look at posts on r/BuildAPCSales

Long-term price trends: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/video-card/

They also have more or less real-time pricing and price history for individual products. But it doesn't provide visibility into the used GPU market.

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