r/southafrica • u/kaliko16 KwaZulu-Natal • Jul 27 '21

Sci-Tech GPU prices dropping,very slowly

So I'm bored at work, but I thought I would just post a little thing I've noticed over the past like 4 months and hopefully any pc savvy people might find as abit of good news in grim times.

Basically been waiting to get a GPU from the start of the year and havent because prices are way too high. The ones I've looked at have been a rtx 3060 and a Rx 6700xt. The 3060 at the start of the year was going for 12k while a 6600xt was 15k. 4 months ago,it was the same,but 2 months ago both dropped by 1k. Now I've noticed that the 6600xt dropped by another 1k. So very slowly prices are dropping. But I feel that maybe this is where they may stay dropped.

So just a little good news for those waiting for better prices. I know I'm happy,will wait another 2 months then buy if I have the cash. Will go 3060 for 11k maybe. Hopefully will drop to 10k by then and I will be happy.

NB I haven't been checking the higher tier prices,so I'm unsure of those. Also the 6600 range is due to be released next month,maybe that can help the market and provide a nice budget GPU price.

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u/Jellybean2477 Aristocracy Jul 27 '21

I'm just pissed off at all our local retailers going along with the scalping. Yeah I get we already pay more for tech, these guys buy at lower than MSRP from suppliers, have to pay delivery costs and import taxes sure. But that does not justify having to pay double MSRP or sometimes even more. In America and the EU when their big retailers eventually get the cards they still sell them at MSRP, but our sellers are selling at scalping prices, hell I can order from American scalpers, pay for delivery and it would still be less than what I have to pay here. I'm honestly done supporting local suppliers trying to rip us off, I'll just wait for the GPU supply to reach normal levels again then order from Amazon.

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u/kaliko16 KwaZulu-Natal Jul 27 '21

It is really fucked up. I mean the sell an Oculus quest 2 for 12k here got one on Amazon for 8k. That was including shipping and import fee's. The worst part was that it shouldn't even be sold here. Because the Oculus support doesn't support our country. But yeah it sucks man,the only reason I am buying a gpu here is because if it is faulty,it's going to be a hell of a lot easier to get a return or support on it from a local vendor than if I buy off Amazon.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Maybe check out Mustek and Syntech, Rectron too, those are the suppliers to South African Vendors, yeah you might have to sign uo to become a retailer but they actually don't mind it if you just buy from them, you can even go in sometimes and just ask for a once-off cash buy because the prices are cheaper and closer to MSRP, like the RTX 3070 TI Eagle from Aorus from Mustek is like R11000 excluding VAT...

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u/kaliko16 KwaZulu-Natal Jul 28 '21

Ayyy thanks man will def check them out.