Best time to sell your used 4090s is now.

[Godrilla]

New 4090s are going for a minimum of $2500 to $3500. Sell your used 4090s while they have equity before the market correction next month when Blackwell drops. You can use the GeForce ultimate $10 trail in the interem to mitigate the pain of integrated graphics/ in between low end dedicated gpu. If you are planning to upgrade to Blackwell you can used funds to mitigate impact of upgrade out of pocket expenditure.

 

[Scooby24]

oof, I'm not all about inflicting that scalper pricing on someone else...I don't need the money bad enough to have that on my conscience.

 

[Frick]

So it's the worst time to buy them.

 

[Dr. Dro]

So it's the worst time to buy them.

If you're a gamer, yes. But people scooping up 4090s at this stage are likely working with LLMs or video production.

 

[Solaris17]

oof, I'm not all about inflicting that scalper pricing on someone else...I don't need the money bad enough to have that on my conscience.

Agree I’m not that much of a scumbag

 

[Godrilla]

Agree I’m not that much of a scumbag

I sold my 25 month old used 4090 suprim liquid for the same price I bought it. From the looks of things I could have sold it for more but decided not to.

 

[Solaris17]

I sold my 25 month old used 4090 suprim liquid for the same price I bought it. From the looks of things I could have sold it for more but decided not to.

Whatever helps you sleep at night bro.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Ahh, the classic dump your gpus before release and struggle to get a new one on release because they're being scalped move.
You miss out on actually profiting from your own GPU and have to play musical tabs for a few weeks to get something new or wait in line at a real store to only get told they only got 3x 5090s today and the same group up front bought them all again. But they have a few 5060s left.

It's just a bad move. There's only going to be maybe 2 cards faster than the 4090.

 

[Vayra86]

I dont know. Is it scalper pricing when you are just selling your gpu that was honestly used for gaming, but at a smart moment? I dont think so. There is apparently huge demand. Simple enough. I think I would sleep very well. For a while...

Ahh, the classic dump your gpus before release and struggle to get a new one on release because they're being scalped move.

And there is this.

Its like me selling my house right now. Its value has skyrocketed because we keep failing to build enough houses in the country. But if I want to buy a new house, Im still not going to have a good time.

 

[Scooby24]

Ahh, the classic dump your gpus before release and struggle to get a new one on release because they're being scalped move.
You miss out on actually profiting from your own GPU and have to play musical tabs for a few weeks to get something new or wait in line at a real store to only get told they only got 3x 5090s today and the same group up front bought them all again. But they have a few 5060s left.

It's just a bad move. There's only going to be maybe 2 cards faster than the 4090.

Right? We're all still dealing with shortages, high demand and scalpers. We are all hobbyists and we should be trying to take care of each other and not contribute to the scalping problem, at the very least. We can't do much about the rest. Just be good humans.

I dont know. Is it scalper pricing when you are just selling your gpu that was honestly used for gaming, but at a smart moment? I dont think so. There is apparently huge demand. Simple enough.


And there is this.

Its like me selling my house right now. Its value has skyrocketed because we keep failing to build enough houses in the country. But if I want to buy a new house, Im still not going to have a good time.

Yes, the pricing is high because the supply is still down.

The housing analogy is not the same because it's not a hobby. You need a place to live and if you are selling your house, you're likely buying another house, which is also high as set by the market. New home pricing follows as well so you can't sell your old house high and buy a new house low. Housing is not the investment scheme Boomers promised. Your profits go right back into your next home.

You can still get the next Gen GPU with patience at MSRP. If you can do that and choose to sell your old GPU high, utilizing scalper pricing, you're taking advantage of someone else solely for your own gain. It's certainly an option you're free to choose to do...but that's on your conscience. I won't do it.

 

[Godrilla]

I dont know. Is it scalper pricing when you are just selling your gpu that was honestly used for gaming, but at a smart moment? I dont think so. There is apparently huge demand. Simple enough. I think I would sleep very well. For a while...


And there is this.

Its like me selling my house right now. Its value has skyrocketed because we keep failing to build enough houses in the country. But if I want to buy a new house, Im still not going to have a good time.

Actually more like a vehicle when the new ones come out the previous ones lose value significantly. I wonder what Florida property looks like now.
House is more like cpu and motherboard lol. Without a car you can still uber and use public transportation ( integrated graphics and / cloud computing).

The last thing scalpers want is 4090 owners to dump their used cards currently. This is a checkmate on the current pricing. It's a win win for gamers. imo

 

[ir_cow]

If you're a gamer, yes. But people scooping up 4090s at this stage are likely working with LLMs or video production.

Yep. No gamer is buying a used 4090 for $2500. It's those cheap LLM projects. Either the they want to expand or one card died and it cheaper to replace vs a Quadro is is double the price.

Buy used stuff and those small grant programs will soon run out of money. Someone convinced the higher ups that this was a much cheaper alternative. It was until the 4090 went up in cost from $1600 base.

 

[freeagent]

I see them on Amazon.ca for 3000-5000 beaver bucks.. thats pretty intense. You could buy a shitbox and put 100,000km on it.

That's about the length of 6.5 billion BigMac boxes for my southern buds

 

[R-T-B]

I dont know. Is it scalper pricing when you are just selling your gpu that was honestly used for gaming, but at a smart moment? I dont think so. There is apparently huge demand. Simple enough. I think I would sleep very well. For a while...


And there is this.

Its like me selling my house right now. Its value has skyrocketed because we keep failing to build enough houses in the country. But if I want to buy a new house, Im still not going to have a good time.

Yeah, I can't really judge someone for doing this. I'd not do it personally though.

 

[freeagent]

I always sell for less than I paid, anything else is kind of dishonest, even though the buyer knows its used.

Maybe its just me

 

[Scooby24]

I always sell for less than I paid, anything else is kind of dishonest, even though the buyer knows its used.

Maybe its just me

it's not

If I've had it over a year and it's still being sold new, I target 20% below MSRP as my starting price unless the market has the pricing below that already.

 

[eidairaman1]

I always sell for less than I paid, anything else is kind of dishonest, even though the buyer knows its used.

Maybe its just me

A scam is a scam

 

[Dr. Dro]

I always sell for less than I paid, anything else is kind of dishonest, even though the buyer knows its used.

Maybe its just me

If the stuff I'm selling is in perfect working order and great cosmetic condition, I adopt a moral code: no more than 70% of what I initially paid. My objective here isn't to make a profit, just help fund my upgrade. Which is the entire point. Oftentimes I just pass my hardware to my brother and sell his old stuff. I'm likely going to end up giving him my RTX 4080 and selling his RTX 3070 when I upgrade to the 5090. That way I get a cushion on the purchase, he gets a massive upgrade for free, and everyone's happy.

 

[freeagent]

If the stuff I'm selling is in perfect working order and great cosmetic condition, I adopt a moral code: no more than 70% of what I initially paid. My objective here isn't to make a profit, just help fund my upgrade. Which is the entire point. Oftentimes I just pass my hardware to my brother and sell his old stuff. I'm likely going to end up giving him my RTX 4080 and selling his RTX 3070 when I upgrade to the 5090. That way I get a cushion on the purchase, he gets a massive upgrade for free, and everyone's happy.

You betcha bud

 

[Godrilla]

If the stuff I'm selling is in perfect working order and great cosmetic condition, I adopt a moral code: no more than 70% of what I initially paid. My objective here isn't to make a profit, just help fund my upgrade. Which is the entire point. Oftentimes I just pass my hardware to my brother and sell his old stuff. I'm likely going to end up giving him my RTX 4080 and selling his RTX 3070 when I upgrade to the 5090. That way I get a cushion on the purchase, he gets a massive upgrade for free, and everyone's happy.

Next month when 4090 owners will upgrade to the 5090 you'll be lucky to get 70% but I hear you. The 4080s and lower will get slaughtered in second hand market due to competition in the midrange in my outlook.

 

[Space Lynx]

Next month when 4090 owners will upgrade to the 5090 you'll be lucky to get 70% but I hear you.

most 4090 owners have x amount of money, the money they will lose is of no matter to them. if you own a 4090 and live paycheck to paycheck, you are doing it wrong compadre.

 

[Godrilla]

most 4090 owners have x amount of money, the money they will lose is of no matter to them. if you own a 4090 and live paycheck to paycheck, you are doing it wrong compadre.

Actually I might just upgrade to the Titan version if it's available I am eyeing the Noctua PSU by Seasonic if you are interested.

 

[freeagent]

most 4090 owners have x amount of credit,

Yup!

 

[Upgrayedd]

Next month when 4090 owners will upgrade to the 5090 you'll be lucky to get 70% but I hear you. The 4080s and lower will get slaughtered in second hand market due to competition in the midrange in my outlook.

You act like there's going to be supply lol

 

[Space Lynx]

You act like there's going to be supply lol

exactly. my buddy irl also thinks he is going to get one on day 1, i keep telling him he won't even be able to get one in month 12.

the factories are focused on AI, this will be a paper launch with the supply/demand ratio.