Yup. Welcome to AMD snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Looked this morning and everything is at least 150 bucks over MSRP.
Retailers are robbing us blind. They got a 50€ rebate from AMD to sell at MSRP and still gouge us…
Also seems like AMD only cares about the US again. Everywhere else just gets the crumbs, availability seemingly only a bit better than NVIDIA.
Mindfactory never had them available (they don’t ship international anymore anyway), and the other stores that had them (and ship intl) you couldn’t even add them to cart. Same in NL and FR (Rue du commerce et al) Joke’s on them, it just made me decide to keep my money and buy them second hand in 1y when the new shiny thing is on the market.
I would enjoy catfishing a couple of scalpers to give them a stern talking to with a baseball bat. Fucking parasites.
Waiting a year seems the best way to buy anything these days. Skip the hype, save money.
Priced at MSRP + like 100-200 extra for the more premium cards in Europe. Just a clickbait article.
Yo why tf can’t they just sale directly to their customers? These 3rd part retailers are robbing us blind at this point and they’re making it early obvious. And if they do already sell directly to customers keep up with the demand or force your suppliers with a contract to limit upcharging.
Existing contracts, a lack of infrastructure, and the cost of shipping and insurance would be my guess. Or simply just the economies of scale making it impossible for anyone other than a major retailer to do it.
Retailers can afford to lose a card or two to damage out of each large order (and usually make it back through upselling warranties that customers rarely use); the many individual packages with direct selling would make it far more likely some of them would end up damaged during shipping at AMD’s expense, and would be more expensive to ship than large bulk orders to boot. It’s far more economical to bulk ship to a distributor and let them do all the work.
Besides, would you trust GPU vendors with your deliveries? The “bad drivers” jokes write themselves!
I’d also give GameStop as an example. Even years after digital media took over, they still had significant influence over publishers, up to dictating advertising and release schedules. Partly due to contracts preventing publishers from pulling away, but largely because a lot of people only buy in stores - most significantly, gift-givers and others who don’t know anything about what they’re buying and need an employee to guide them. Holidays alone kept GameStop in the black for years after Steam/Live/PSN dominated the marketplace.
With graphics cards, I’d be willing to bet most people buying them know very little about their choices and need someone to guide them. Enthusiasts are the minority.
Launch availability sucks as usual, too. Thought I had an XFX from NewEgg until I got the “voided due to insufficient stock” email. Thanks for wasting my morning, NewEgg.
Today, launch day, in Spain the available models range from €800 to €1000+
Yeah, EU prices seem nuts. A glance at Romania’s biggest retailer shows them at the equivalent of 750 to 900 across the 9070 and XT variants. Unlike the prices you report in Spain that’s still less than the 5070 Ti on the same outlet (somehow), but it still fundamentally changes the value proposition here.
I haven’t checked France and Germany, but I expect it’ll be a similar story.
Just saw one retailer in Germany (nbb) still with one 9070 XT for 689€ (MSRP I guess), but when you click the listing, you get an error. The rest are 800€+
Other retailers I checked are all sold out, even at 900€, if they even have the 9000-series.
On geizhals (website to check and compare prices for tons of different shops) is only one single 9070 XT listing, a 900€ model directly from the ASUS store and even there you get a 404.
I will pass on any card over the 599 Msrp.
