GPU Group-buy?
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This may have been discussed elsewhere, but has this ever been attempted? I’m thinking along the lines of how folks have organized group-buys for the Avalon ASIC chips for Bitcoin?
Has anyone ever looked into the concept, and would/could it be worthwhile? If it would even be possible to get one of the wholesalers to work with us that is. I have been thinking about this for a little while, and I would imagine the quantity purchases would need to be significant in order to get the wholesaler’s attention.
I can’t think of a better community to discuss this with, and/or attempt…
Thoughts…?
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[quote name=“d2” post=“16788” timestamp=“1371827627”]
I don’t think this is likely to happen due to the sheer amount of money & trust involved in the person that handles the transaction.
[/quote]Unless is was D2, NutNut, or someone here I trust this would be very hard to do. Also unlike asic chips graphics cards take up a lot more space and would be much harder to do a large enough group buy to make it worthwhile.
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I get wholesale price for all computer parts from the biggest computer part supplier here in NZ. All I did was purchase more than 10k per month (collectively me and my friends) Then turned up the next month asking for wholesale price, mentioning I was going to buy at least another 10K worth of parts.
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I think AMD is allready noticing their salenumbers skyrocketing due to GPU mining.
In that state i do not think a group buy would do much for the price.
I tried 4 different webstores when i was going to purchase 15x 7950. None of them would offer any lower price.
That including my main buy store which i have a 26000$ purchase history just within last year…Theres a reason AMD has not released the 8xxx series yet… why would them when they are selling 7xxx series like they do…