The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards won't be available until February 25, but at least one duffer is still trying to grab the latest RTX 30 series GPUs and resell them for exorbitantly high prices

In fact, as VideoCardz reported, they are selling three of them Onliner, a Belarusian used marketplace, is offering three Gigabyte RTX 3060 cards worth about $1,080 each That's right, one card each That's a GPU with an MSRP of $329

This is an unfortunate repeat of the pattern that has plagued the RTX 30 series since the moment it launched last year: anyone looking for where to buy an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 or an Nvidia RTX 3070 will have found authorized retailers sold out for weeks at a time They will have found it sold out for weeks at a time Meanwhile, duffers are using bot scripts to instantly buy up restocked units and sell them for several times the market price

The recent boom in digital currency mining has also helped, as already limited inventory is being snapped up by would-be miners to build their rigs, and Nvidia has brought back older GPUs like the RTX 2060 to meet this demand

Nvidia's approach with the RTX 3060 was to expect a different launch for this latest GPU; Nvidia intentionally tuned the RTX 3060's software to make it much less effective for digital currency mining If all goes according to plan, miners will lose interest in the RTX 3060, consumer inventories will increase, and duffers will have fewer customers willing to pay the inflated prices

Sadly, it appears that hopeful RTX 30 series buyers will have to endure the reseller problem for a while longer; VideoCardz also notes that the owner of an Onliner listing may have resold three GPUs after being disappointed with their mining performance He states Miners are one of the two biggest outflows of RTX 30 series inventory, supplying the reseller market, the other biggest outflow It's a nightmare