Is this GPU price actually real?

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time falling down internet rabbit holes lately—scouring sites like Amazon and eBay, and even checking around at some local shops—just to get a better sense of market values. It turns out my current card is a bit of an outlier:

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 windforce seems to be commanding a significantly higher price tag than just about any other GTX 970 on the market. And I’m looking at this from the perspective of someone actually trying to budget for two new cards at once. Honestly, why? I can't wrap my head around the logic here.

We're talking about a $480 price point versus something closer to $350.🤔

My first thought is that retailers just stocked up at peak prices and couldn't move the inventory, so now they're basically just waiting for someone to buy it off their hands.

Exactly. They know exactly what those GPUs were worth back then, and they refuse to let them go for anything less than that—which is basically just an invitation for someone to walk into a trap.

It's the exact same logic as this 🤣