The easyrider shuffle- Many of you have failed....

[IT Troll]

Sold my 1080 Ti after receiving my 3080 so I had zero days without a gaming GPU. The 1080 Ti depreciated by £299 in the two and half years I owned it. That's 23p per day.
I'll not be shuffling my 3080 until I have a 4000 series in hand.

 

[Devious]

Did well without the shuffle this time.

Bought 3080 on launch for £649 with watchdogs game.

Sold 1080Ti a week later for £350 after costs.

Bring on Cyberpunk2077.

 

[ketma]

Apart from a few that bagged a new card I think the shuffle tactic failed...

 

[Stephen Garner]

Shuffled my 2080TI for -£150 buying cost for my Gigabyte Vision to a buyer who needed the access to a card for rendering and wanted the 11GB of vRAM.

Mint card, i didn't ask questions.
Prefaced this with a time frame of 3080 needed to be delivered first. Already have my 3080. Worked out well this time around.

 

[TNA]

If there are no new must play games that are due out towards the 4080 release I will still have a go at the shuffle like I have been the near past 2 decades. Usually works fine for me as I don’t play online much and even on a card like an RX 580 I can play majority of my steam library just fine to keep me busy. Will see how it goes

 

[rubberduck]

Sold my 2080ti for £850 and within a month was gaming on my 3080 which I got for £630 after selling the watchdogs code. Thanks for the shuffle advice, it worked for me!

 

[HangTime]

Out of interest did anyone fail the shuffle in an unexpected way, i.e. tried to follow the pattern but left with egg on their face i.e:

1) Sold old GPU before the 3000 series announced for what seemed an OK price
2) Unable to get a 3000 series GPU due to stock shortage
3) Market rate for their original GPU is now higher than it was when they sold it in the summer
4) Can't find a decent replacement GPU at a decent price.

?

 

[Alec potter]

Ran a 780ti for years since the release.

Bought a 2070 Super MSI Trio £450 from the forest after completing a new build.

returned the 2070 Super after two months use for a refund and upgraded to a 3080 for £350 difference.

looking back should have kept the 2070 S and flogged it on the bay.

 

[P.B]

I still have my 2080ti along with my 3090 just didnt get round to selling it, Didn't see the point for 350 or 400 what ever they was going for.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I promised my 1080ti for free to someone I know who loves gaming but hasn't got much cash - he was gaming on a 960. Initially, I thought he would be let down but lady luck smiled on me a week after release and I bagged a 3080-FE.

Sometimes, Karma can be more rewarding than cash.

 

[gronf]

Gave away my ol' 290 thinking my 1070 would go as backup.. Probably have to stick with my 1070 till summer+ FFS.

Considering waltzing into console-land, PS5. But I always wait a good few years for them and often naturally play more casually. Playing backlog currently.

Trying to wait for a 5700/X at sensible MSRP.. Maybe by Mar- summer or so, damn it. Oh, and finally move from W7 to W10, yay..

 

[Devious]

Out of interest did anyone fail the shuffle in an unexpected way, i.e. tried to follow the pattern but left with egg on their face i.e:

1) Sold old GPU before the 3000 series announced for what seemed an OK price
2) Unable to get a 3000 series GPU due to stock shortage
3) Market rate for their original GPU is now higher than it was when they sold it in the summer
4) Can't find a decent replacement GPU at a decent price.

?

Im sure there a more than a few this gen

 

[gthlm]

I promised my 1080ti for free to someone I know who loves gaming but hasn't got much cash - he was gaming on a 960. Initially, I thought he would be let down but lady luck smiled on me a week after release and I bagged a 3080-FE.

Sometimes, Karma can be more rewarding than cash.

Same - promised my Radeon VII to a friend so he could have a decent experience with Cyberpunk, then was left worried that I'd be unable to keep the promise. Didn't like that one bit.

Luckily managed to get a 6800 from here only a few days after the game launched and the promise was kept

I did mention to him later than the VII was selling on ebay for £200 more than I paid for it new, we had a laugh and he promised to owe me a favour!

 

[G J]

Well, some of the bragging in this thread on how much money people made and the scalpers are like hold my beer.

 

[McGraw]

Fe 3070 rrp
1070 sold £180

could have been better or much worse. Happy overall.

 

[Robi_uk]

My 3070 arriving tomorrow, need to find my packaging for the 1080ti and put that up for sale, I am hoping to get around £350+ for it, this should offset most of the cost of the 3070. Will still keep an eye out for a 3080Fe though, when I get that I will also sell the 3070.

 

[morta]

I don't really see the issue. If you wanted to play at 4k for the last year or so it really needed to be a 2080ti. So people paid what they had to if that was important to them.

Yes they've taken a big price hit, but then the 3080 is going to be cheaper to buy than they expected so what's the problem? If the 3080 had been £850 and your 2080ti only took a hit to £600, the price to upgrade is the same as now.

I really don't get the fuss.

not true. iv been playing 4k just fine on a 1080ti..its exactly why i skipt out on 20 series. its only with the recent release of cyber punk were the 1080ti has shown its age.

 

[robfosters]

3080 in nov - £750
Sold 2070S in Jan - £375

Total cost of 3080 - £375. Not too sore, and I was never without a card.

 

[benjii]

I bought a Gigabyte AORUS 3080 Xtreme on Friday and sold my 1080Ti for £350. I'm happy with that.

 

[Zefan]

This thread aged very badly