While the price tag for graphics cards around the world is ridiculously high, there are markets where things are even worse. The graphics card craze takes on hard-to-believe stories at times.
How does the graphics card craze affect prices in Eastern markets?
Several of them were collected by Wccftech, which noticed some unusual deviations in South Asia and the Middle East. One of the stories is about the distributor AU Technologies, which deals mainly with Palit and Sapphire graphics cards.
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This company sells 4/5 year refurbished graphics cards with no warranty, no boxes, and at a price that makes you smile. We are talking about models such as: Radeon RX 480, RX 570, RX 590, RX 5600 XT and RX Vega 64, of which we will have to pay the entire 100,000 PKR, i.e. 2350 PLN, for the former. This is over PLN 1,000 more than we paid on the day of its premiere.
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Retailers who buy these cards receive a discount of PLN 100/150, but they still sell them to private customers for over PLN 3,000, wanting to share in the profits. In turn, ASUS, by providing its official distributor Pacific Computers in Pakistan, the price list of the latest graphics cards, in which the most eye-catching is the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, covered by the warranty and completely new, but for the price of … 3400 PLN. Its price in the store will be even higher.
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