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  "channel_slug": "LocalLLaMA",
  "channel_handle": "r/LocalLLaMA",
  "title": "RTX 3090 EBay Pricing is Crazy!!",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1tysbyj/rtx_3090_ebay_pricing_is_crazy/",
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  "upload_date": "20260606",
  "published_at": "2026-06-06T20:44:46+00:00",
  "transcript": "Couple of years ago, before Local LLMs were in vogue, I bought 8 RTX 3090 @ $700 each to build a AI rig, it been working great and I was looking to build another to increase my capacity but looking at EBay those are now selling for 1,300 -1,500 range!\n\nThat price seems totally crazy because on my main machine I have 3090 Ti that I bought new 5 years ago for about 1,400.\n\nNeedless to say, I was in shock and started looking for other GPUs. Then I went to Amazon and can buy a brand spanking new 3090 for 1,550!\n\nPlease tell me if you can buy a new GPU with great thermals why are people buying 5 years old used GPUs with degraded thermals for 1,400+ and keeping the EBay prices so high. What am I missing here?\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[42 upvotes] It's still the cheapest single NVIDIA card with 24gb if you don't want to go the dual route. But yeah, $1400 for one is crazy.\n\n[22 upvotes] With Chinese ram coming, Nvidia announcing 50 series super returning, AI/chip stocks taking a hit, and these absolutely mental 3090 prices, I feel like we are at the top. \n\n[21 upvotes] I seriously doubt there are any quantities of new 3090s. At best those are shady 3rd party sellers selling refurbished or just cleaned up used 3090s. That's the best scenario.\n\nTBH, eBay pricing for 3090s was always above what you'd pay locally, which makes sense given all the fees involved. I have four, bought locally at 500-550 each. \n\nAs much as I like them, I'm questioning the wisdom of keeping them. Their prices are approaching R9700 territory and that has 32GB VRAM. The R9700 has less memory bandwidth, but I'm almost always running larger models that don't fit in VRAM anyway, so the extra memory bandwidth isn't doing much. ROCm has also come a long way, and I'm finding more and more ggml C++ projects to run other models.\n\n[21 upvotes] https://preview.redd.it/3z60b0e7bq5h1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7de9568d86a5d0fe6e49f29698c9183b2ec42580",
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