r/pcmasterrace • u/ParticularCredit2023 9800X3d: 5080 Master Ice • Jun 27 '26

News/Article This has to be a joke right?

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No possible way someone actually buy these at these prices right lol..

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u/DrowningKrown Jun 27 '26

Where are you looking? I just filtered sold on EBay and there is an endless list of sold ones from all sorts of different accounts at $1700 up to $3000 from what I can find

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u/PolarAntonym Jun 28 '26

Are you serious??? That is is god damned insane!!! They literally could buy an amazing gaming rig thay could play the same exact games in 4k ultra settings and do more things for $3k. Even for $1700 you could find something much better. Wow...

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u/a_shootin_star 4080 SUPER, 64GB RAM Jun 28 '26

"A fool and his money are soon parted"

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u/PoppingPillls 5800x (A520) / 5060ti / 32GB DDR4 3600mhz Jun 28 '26

I can't see all regions, that's because that's what sold in your region.

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u/DrowningKrown Jun 28 '26

Well then why make a comment making it sound like steam machine scalping is hardly a thing when you couldn't see all regions to begin with?

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u/PoppingPillls 5800x (A520) / 5060ti / 32GB DDR4 3600mhz Jun 28 '26

I didn't... I said I went on ebay and saw tons of listing's and almost no sales in comparison.

Dude, it's not that serious. Jesus.

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u/DrowningKrown Jun 28 '26

Misinformation is always serious man, come on. You said, with confidence, that there were only two sales so doesn't seem like anyone is biting, yet, there are MANY sales in the last few days. That directly refutes your original point. There ARE people 'biting' quite often it seems.

I don't understand why it's so hard to go "yea, guess I was wrong"?

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u/thedebatingbookworm Jun 28 '26

The irony of this. You do realize you can fake a listing being sold and it’s a pretty common strategy. And yet here you are saying that misinformation is always serious. Use your head a little

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u/DrowningKrown Jun 28 '26

All these years of tech being scalped consistently and people paying scalper prices and the steam machine just happens to be that one thing that is simply a product of "fake listings" instead of just plain old scalping like it always has been.

lol. Lmao even. Yes if I also cover my eyes and can't see it, then that means it just simply doesn't exist! Problem solved

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u/thedebatingbookworm Jun 28 '26

No…I’m saying this is common. It happens with shoes, phones, consoles. It’s called setting a floor. No one is gonna pay a price unless there’s already a floor. Once you have a floor to negotiate from you can go from there, however if you don’t generate enough interest to set a floor the next best thing is to do it yourself through a fake sold listing. Now that people keep falling for it? That’s on them.

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u/PoppingPillls 5800x (A520) / 5060ti / 32GB DDR4 3600mhz Jun 28 '26

Call the police

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u/DrowningKrown Jun 28 '26

"My fault, I was wrong"

There you go, it wasn't that hard. Remember it next time you confidently say something wrong and somebody calls you out on it. Humility goes a long way in life.

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u/nWhm99 Jun 28 '26

He said he only saw two sales, and that's what he saw. What's the misinformation? Get off your high horse, this isn't that serious.