I don't know if you guys ever frequent your local Craiglist or Kijiji looking at the GPU deals but its pretty crazy what is going on.
Basically there are tons of GPUs out there, most are "ok" deals, basically a little under MSRP, but the excuses everyone uses for selling their GPUs is hilarious.
There is one dude, where he has a bunch of GPU boxes all stacked, saying "never mined with".
Another dude which is selling USB Risers on another post, is selling GPUs sepeartely and says they were never mined but were used for autocad/rendering/compute work.
Then there are the usual people who try and sell an entire GPU rig basically at or above MSRP. People who are asking MSRP prices for their 1080Ti's when the 2080 is pretty much released.
People posting fake "daily income per GPU". Like the daily income last month and not the current income.
Lots of shady stuff.
I don't understand why people just can't be honest and say "Was mined with, they still work great, comes with warranty if they fail. Selling because mining is no longer profitable. My loss is your gain".
Well people ask for the insane prices because they get lowball offers of 1/3 their asking price. Post a 1080Ti for $600 and somebody will offer $200 cash in hand if they can pick it up today lol. I don't bother with craigslist of eBay - I sold everything through Amazon but that is filled with scam buyers now.
I can see the logic in selling a built rig at MSRP though - it does take a lot of time to build a rig cleanly and correctly with proper spacing, wiring, and good cable management. But seeing as how almost all coins are mined at a loss right now I don't see a hurry to get going with any rig except maybe a Vega Monero setup.
Yeah not disclosing mining behavior is just shady and scammy. It's about what I would expect from the general populace at large. No decency. I always ran my cards in the last 3 years with good thermals by undervolting so I have no problem reporting my mining and even boast about how low the voltage will go at stock speeds. Only thing I see bad with well kept miner cards are the fans.
Oddly the only card I have had die in the last 2 years was a 750Ti that I never once mined on. It only played games and killed the HDMI output so I got a 1050 out of it thanks to MSI.