Originally Posted by
AOD_MightyDWC
Going back ZED's post about pricing, I don't know if Nvidia themselves could control the pricing. It would be more on the company actually selling the card with their brand name on it, ie: Asus, EVGA, MSI etc......
I work for a very large wholesale marine parts and accessories company here in the states, and the majority of the items we sell we have "wiggle room" on the price we sale at, and then our customer has "wiggle room" on the SRP they sell at.
The high end electronics side (trolling motors, GPS, FishFinders), thoses MFG's set what is called MAPP pricing. I'm sure ZED know's what I'm talking about, but basically we cannot sell at a wholesale cost to our customers at a different cost other than what the MFG sets. And then our customer cannot sell retail over what the MFG says they can sell at WITHOUT specific permissions. These MFG's have teams who do nothing but scour the internet looking for vendors who are selling their products at prices other than what they set forth, and they can take action against those vendors for doing such.
The main question here is are the GPU card MFG's willing to put in this effort to control pricing? It's kinda like here in the states when there's a hurricane that shuts down a major gas refinery, and certain areas have gas shortages, and some stations will gauge their pricing. Those stations get in trouble, but they've already made that extra money. Like ZED said, supply and demand=#1 factor in pricing across all mfg'ing.