I wasn't trying to be a smart arse at all. "I couldn't get a new card from a store" and "I couldn't get a card at all" are extremely different claims in my mind.

I'd rate my pedantry level as quite low. From my point of view this is not a nitpick.

Especially because you emphasized "at any price". It's the scalpers and the used market that were selling at any price. Sticking to reputable stores means sticking close to MSRP.

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JollySharp0 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Buying from scalpers and other untrustworthy people like thieves and other toerags is unreasonable.

I would expect people to understand that unreasonable options should be omitted from conversation.

There was no stock at any of the online outlets that are commonly used in the UK when it came to GPUs for what seemed like a long time.

> I'd rate my pedantry level as quite low. From my point of view this is not a nitpick.

"I have investigated myself and found that I did nothing wrong".

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Dylan16807 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Ebay is reasonable.

Ebay is not all scalpers either. You could have gotten another 1080Ti from a legitimate previous owner.

	▲	JollySharp0 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Ebay is reasonable. Paying a scalper on ebay isn't. Which is what I said. Misstating what I said is disingenuous. > You could have gotten another 1080Ti from a legitimate previous owner. They were being scalped as well. Also people were holding onto their 10 series cards because the other cards were too expensive. So I would have had to buy an older card (which I had already had one fail) at an inflated price. I could have bought a GT 710 or a GT1030, but that wouldn't have been any better than my 8800GTS really. I could have flown to Taiwan and bought a card. I could have stolen one. I am sure you will invent another fantasy scenario where I could have gotten a graphics card that I didn't think about at the time. The fact is that I could not buy a new card from an online retailer in the UK as they were out of stock. Even when they did come into stock there was a lotto system. So you couldn't really buy one then. That is a fact.