Buying used

[Sat1600]

So i see a lot of suggestions to buy graphics cards used. I have been looking at listings on both Ebay and Craigslist. It seems to me that people WAAAAY over value their used cards.

For example used 7950s range from $140 to over $200 on ebay. You can get a brand new R9 380 that was not used for bitcoin mining for $150.

 

EBAY

 

don't get me started on craigslist.

 

I know that Linus and Luke got good deals on scrapyard wars, but I think that in order to do that you have to spend 2 days on the phone low balling people.

 

Maybe Canada is easier. For now I don't see the hassle being worth the savings.

[thekeemo]

Canada at least where I am is much better than ebay and USA craigslist for used stuff

280xs as low as $70 USD

Also two days low balling is how you get fair prices on used stuff.

[Sat1600]

Just now, thekeemo said:

Canada at least where I am is much better than ebay and USA craigslist

Maybe that's it. I'd love to see a "New York City"  scrapyard wars.

[Maxxtraxx]

There are many, many people who overvalue their graphics cards.

 

Ebay works well for certain cards and at certain times. Some cards seem to be consistently overvalued and I simply do not pay attention to those cards, There are some pretty good deals to be had in some cases however. In the last 8 months off of EBAY I had noticed what I consider a sweet spot in the GTX760, I've picked up two GTX760's for between 100 and 110 USD for my second PC and for a friend's PC, I would consider them to be a pretty good deal, they offer similar performance to a GTX950 for 50 USD less.

 

I've been watching cragslist pretty hard for the last 4-5 months and have seen anywhere from a GTX680 for 350 USD(absurd) to GTX960's for 190 USD(silly, used at new price) to decent value GTX760's for 100ish USD to crazy deals(that I jumped on IMMEDIATELY, because they disappear)

 

4 months ago I found a Titan X for 450 USD(which I got)

2 weeks ago I found a GTX980 for 275 USD(which I got)

 

The great deals don't stick around, I spend 5 minutes everyday after work looking at craigslist for any deals, I search for "gtx" to cover all Nvidia cards.

 

I'm not personally very knowledgeable about AMD's lineup and Bitcoin mining is always a concern so I don't usually check for AMD cards but when I do I simply search "radeon"

[Maxxtraxx]

Just from my area, here's a few examples:

 

Silly gtx680 $350

 

Reasonable gtx970 $250

 

Interesting gtx590 $125

 

Awesome gtx980 (the one I got)

 

Reasonable gtx780 $200

[Sat1600]

4 minutes ago, Maxxtraxx said:

There are many, many people who overvalue their graphics cards.

 

Ebay works well for certain cards and at certain times. Some cards seem to be consistently overvalued and I simply do not pay attention to those cards, There are some pretty good deals to be had in some cases however. In the last 8 months off of EBAY I had noticed what I consider a sweet spot in the GTX760, I've picked up two GTX760's for between 100 and 110 USD for my second PC and for a friend's PC, I would consider them to be a pretty good deal, they offer similar performance to a GTX950 for 50 USD less.

 

I've been watching cragslist pretty hard for the last 4-5 months and have seen anywhere from a GTX680 for 350 USD(absurd) to GTX960's for 190 USD(silly, used at new price) to decent value GTX760's for 100ish USD to crazy deals(that I jumped on IMMEDIATELY, because they disappear)

 

4 months ago I found a Titan X for 450 USD(which I got)

2 weeks ago I found a GTX980 for 275 USD(which I got)

 

The great deals don't stick around, I spend 5 minutes everyday after work looking at craigslist for any deals, I search for "gtx" to cover all Nvidia cards.

 

I'm not personally very knowledgeable about AMD's lineup and Bitcoin mining is always a concern so I don't usually check for AMD cards but when I do I simply search "radeon"

You can get a gtx 950 for $130. I've even seen them as low as $120. Not sure that the $10 - $20 savings is worth buying used.

 

Now a Titanx for $450 is a steal! But you probably have to jump in the car and call on the way as soon as you see that. 

[Maxxtraxx]

3 minutes ago, Sat1600 said:

You can get a gtx 950 for $130. I've even seen them as low as $120. Not sure that the $10 - $20 savings is worth buying used.

 

Now a Titanx for $450 is a steal! But you probably have to jump in the car and call on the way as soon as you see that. 

I can agree that at 100 bucks, 30 bucks saved for a slightly older card isn't amazing but at that price it's 30% less for the same performance. At the time I got them, being this past summer(wow... that long ago?), the gtx950's were not released yet.