Who wants to buy GPUs that were redlined for three years in a data center? Maybe there's a market for those, but most people already seem wary of lightly used GPUs from other consumers, let alone GPUs that were burning in a crypto farm or AI data center for years.

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dylan604 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Who wants to buy

who cares? that's the beauty of the lease. once it's over, the old and busted gets replaced with new and shiny. what the leasing company does is up to them. it becomes one of those YP not an MP situations with deprecated equipment.

	▲	bluGill 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The leasing company cares - the lease terms depend on the answer. That is why I can lease a car for 3 years for the same payment as a 6 year loan (more or less) - the lease company expects someone will want it. If there is no market for it after they will still lease it but the cost goes up

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coryrc 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Depends on the price, of course. I'm wary of paying 50% of new for something run hard 3 years. Seems an NVIDIA H100 is going for $20k+ on EBay. I'm not taking that risk.

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pixl97 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Depending on the discount, a lot of people.