Yes. Well, I just need one card, when I get it, I will stop cry about that here ;D
Yeah, like hundreds of other people monitoring these forums. We're
all in this together.
I work in delivery. I cant even give neigbour pakets to one person and lie them that I tried to ring neighbours, but they wasnt home. And im pretty sure, you have noticed that most drivers does that, if you live higher floor, they even dont try to ring you.... But not me, no, I always call every single person, even though i have 20 pakets for 1 adress, even though its last floor etc., I just dont lie to people and I do my best at my job, doesnt matter what kind of job, even hard courier job, but thats the best I could find right now with minimal german language
That's nice of you that you take your job seriously. That's kinda rare in your business, speaking only from the perspective of my own experiences
But still: Anybody can tell some kind of story - what if somebody chimes in here and says "he's got cancer and only few months left to live", so he needs the GPU now to have some nice final days? Yeah, thats an extreme example, but would
you believe him (somebody "anonymous" on an internet message board) and instantly
hand over your graphics card (if you were finally able to get one)?
I honestly doubt it and that is totally okay. Because why should you believe some stranger in here you don't know.
Sorry, I cant afford to pay scalper prices
That's perfectly okay. I
could afford those prices and managed to save money for building a new PC. But I just won't pay it. So I have to live with my own decision, exactly like you. That's the reality we live in and you just have to accept it. Either pay those prices or wait like everybody else.
Not that it's important: I waited way longer than you (that doesn't mean I'm more "entitled" to get a "reasonable priced" card earlier than you or than anybody else who might have started looking for a card just yesterday).
That was my own "mistake", I could have bought a card end of last year or in the beginning of this one. But I didn't (because I thought I would start building the system in spring at earliest), so I have to live with this decision.
And me (and you) perfectly can.
i dont earn that much and i dont get any money from goverment....
Even as a german, either you work OR you get money from the government. Getting both at the same time is a rare case and usually only happens if you already earn so little that you get additionally support. But then your total earnings will be still on the lower end most likely. Anyway..
But its really tough to purchase card, because im out of home before 8AM and im back 7-8PM, so.... i dont have much opportunity.
Yes, like I already said:
Many other people are in the same situation like yours.
You can't change it - the only way is just being patient. Don't buy from scalpers and wait. Scalpers won't magically drop their prices or refrain from buying cards if you just "ask nicely". This behaviour will stop when they can't sell their cards.
Prices will go down. Nobody knows when, but there will be better times where you don't have to constantly monitor all hardware vendors, like before. And I really recommend you to stay patient, especially if you don't are somebody with a big income like your story suggests. There are more important things..
but if they ask my week or two week salary for their scalping
I agree with you, you don't have to explain it to me - of course it's "not fair", but it's reality and you have to accept it - you are no exception here.
im sorry, its not fair and i wont support that...
All I can say is: Fine
Continue with this strategy. I don't know what else I can say but.. just think about if you really
need a graphics card now. Except very few people in some rare productivity fields (no, I don't speak about mining), nobody really does - but of course I perfectly understand that you just want one, I wanted one too.
But honestly, I can't think of any game that isn't playable with older hardware if you adjust your own expectations (and dial down some sliders). For example, I perfectly played through Cyberpunk on a 10 year old CPU and some last generation graphics card. It looked good and the performance was totally okay (sure, 1080p "only") with more than playable FPS. But yeah, who doesn't want more..
If it's not worth for you to pay inflated prices (I'm totally with you in this regard),
just don't do it -
but accept reality. If you still feel it's really neccessary for you to play at a higher resolution with every slider to maximum, then
you have to pay the current prices. There is
no other way, for nobody.
Just be glad it's "only" GPUs that mostly suffer from this situation and nothing really important for your life like groceries or whatever.
Anyway.. Personally, I just decided to postpone my upgrade plans completely and instead invest the money in something more "reasonable", where I can justify the expenses. Another possibility is just keep / save the money
But like I said, this is an individual decision everybody has to make on his own and I don't judge anybody if one decides otherwise.
But hey: Now you know there's at least one person less you have to "fight with" for a graphics card.
Isn't that nice of me?
