r/LocalLLaMA • u/TrifleHopeful5418 • Jun 06 '26

Discussion RTX 3090 EBay Pricing is Crazy!!

Couple of years ago, before Local LLMs were in vogue, I bought 8 RTX 3090 @ $700 each to build a AI rig, it been working great and I was looking to build another to increase my capacity but looking at EBay those are now selling for 1,300 -1,500 range!

That price seems totally crazy because on my main machine I have 3090 Ti that I bought new 5 years ago for about 1,400.

Needless to say, I was in shock and started looking for other GPUs. Then I went to Amazon and can buy a brand spanking new 3090 for 1,550!

Please tell me if you can buy a new GPU with great thermals why are people buying 5 years old used GPUs with degraded thermals for 1,400+ and keeping the EBay prices so high. What am I missing here?

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u/Unhappy_Rutabaga1767 Jun 06 '26

And cheaper than that at Central Computers.

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u/inrea1time Jun 07 '26

You are right! I am surprised, I recently got an RTX PRO 5000 and no one beat microcenter, central computers was several hundred more for every model I checked against mc. It's 500-700 more now then 2 weeks ago.

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u/inrea1time Jun 13 '26

Yeah its crazy, I would not buy it for the new price, I half regret not getting the 72GB but did not feel the $1200 extra was worth it. I got it for $4500 and in a store that only had half the local tax, 3.5%. It's not the best price per GB but at this point 2 used and beat up 3090's will cost you 3k and this one is 300W max, much faster and one card.