GeForce RTX 3080 has 70% increase in hours in Brazilian store.
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: Through a note, Kabum confirmed to the TechWorld the price increases and justified marketing issues for the same day highs. See, below, the full positioning sent by the store.
“The expressive high of the dollar, the low production volume and the high demand for the product due to the mining of cryptocurrencies have made the market extremely competitive and dynamic all over the world. The high prices have been news for a few months in the technology and fact has happened all over the planet.
In order to keep the Brazilian market supplied at this time of world shortage in the supply of video cards, KaBuM! has acquired different batches of the product through different suppliers, distributors and importers. The difference in the negotiation of each lot is applied in real time to our prices, in order to guarantee the best possible offers for our customers and to allow the supply of slabs to be at least maintained for our market”.
: The electronics market, including games, has suffered from significant price hikes for a few months. A case this Tuesday (09), however, caught the attention of the community. Zotac’s GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card (model ZT-A30800J-10P) registered a 70% increase in a few hours on Kabum.
The survey, carried out by the “Bipolar GPU” profile on Twitter, shows that the price ranged from R$ 9,900, in the early hours of the day, to R$ 16,900 around 2 pm. The increase was R$7 thousand.
Also according to the Bipolar GPU, the increase in the accumulated is even more impressive. On September 17, Zotac’s GeForce RTX 3080 cost R$ 5,300, which indicates that it has already gone up an incredible 218% to date.
It is also important to remember that the amounts considered are cash. In installments, the GPU is going out for R$ 19.9 thousand this Tuesday.
Reasons
The high price situation has also affected new generation consoles, for example. Yesterday (08) many people noticed increases in the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Despite the values suggested by Sony and Microsoft are still valid, retailers ended up charging more.
Among the answers to these variations is the increase in the dollar. In 2021 alone, the currency has already increased by more than 10%, according to the Central Bank. Another factor is the low stock of products, whose production was affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Also in the case of GPUs, even cryptocurrency mining became a factor that explains the rise. Many miners have bet on the device to mine virtual currencies, which has seen an incredible increase in quotes.
O TechWorldo sent a note asking Kabum for clarification on the price increase of the RTX 3080 this Tuesday. The article will be updated as soon as the article receives the note on the subject.
