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Bad Purchase posted:graphics cards and game consoles weren't inflated because people saw them as crypto-like collectibles Iirc graphics cards specifically was mostly a scalper issue. There was an article around that time that compared the drop of new graphics cards and new crypto farms popping up and it concluded they weren't really related. GPUs were just a very hot ticket item like new consoles that people were really desperate to buy but supply was limited because of all the supply chain issues, and scalper bots were basically unstoppable. veni veni veni posted:I think it's more the collectables market in general. Crypto basically taught people that you can turn anything into currency which caused hyper inflation of a bunch of old junk that wasn't worth much a few years ago. Even new junk. Game consoles and graphics cards were practically currency for a while there. There deffo are some blatant 'this is straight up money laundering' sales in the retro game market, but a lot of it is just that there were a lot of people getting into the hobby because of WFH. The same thing happened pretty bad in film cameras too, with lots of models that were hyped by the YouTube influencers seeing as much as a 3x price increase compared to just a year or two prior. I know LGR (popular retro tech/gaming youtuber) has talked in the past about seeing a huge influx of subscribers once Covid hit.
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