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Where to sell a 5090 GPU?
randvegeta
Member, Host Rep
in General
I have a couple of GPUs that I think I'd rather have the money for. Looks like new 5090s are going for over $6k USD.
Where's a good place to sell GPUs where you're not gonna get scammed by people who will desolder the chip and vram and send you back a brick?
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facebook marketplace, definitely.
Why do you care what they do with the card?
I'll second Marketplace, but eBay set to domestic only and only accepting people with solid massive amounts of positive feedback is also a thing if you can't do it locally, I guess.
But I want more than $7 for it.
I'd rather eat my own shit.
I'm talking about the scam where people buy GPUs on ebay or other market place, they remove the chips and send back the desoldered board and shroud back to the seller, and then get a refund. I'm not going to risk this.
@randvegeta why don't you rent it out or otherwise sell it to another provider here? Just do one shot deal.
Indeed ebay is very risky. And also most buyer (middle man) will remove chips and throwaway the PCB and cooler.
It's that insane now? I'm glad I don't have enough money to be scammed by that
I very much wouldn't take that risk either.
I would but there are some concerns.
I assume if someone wants to rent it, they will hammer it. So electricity costs alone would be on the order US$170/month. On top of that, if they kill it, I'll probably need to replace it and getting a replacement is near impossible. And it seems the chances of them killing it is extremely high.
I currently use it to run local AI models, but I cap the power to 400w to ensure I dont kill it myself. But nobody who rents cares about longevity, and saving ~$50/month in electricity is probably not much of an incentive to throw away ~25% of your compute.
If I can sell it for $5k, I'd be very happy.
I have a Radeon AI Pro R9700 GPU that can handle my local AI workload. Slower, but it can do the same stuff.
Yeah it's crazy. The chips end up in China where they get put onto custom PCBs and are loaded with 96GB VRAM. Effectively making it an RTX Pro 6000 (almost). Then they sell it for well over $10k. Not bad considering the main chip was stolen.