NVIDIA Dictates Advertised Video Card Pricing

[Just Learnin']

Source: H Enthusiast (http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTUxOSwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==)


Did you wonder why your GeForce purchasing experience may have changed? Have you wondered why you might have seen all cards priced the same or not priced at all? We have some answers for you on that front and it is called "UMAP."

[RoachBurn]

Out of that entire article, I found this to be the most interesting. Another reason why I'll only buy established US vendor cards (Evga mostly).

"Some think that the policy has been put in place to run the card builders that sell on price, out of North America; those board builders are not officially signed off on by NVIDIA to sell in the U.S. Palit is a great example of one of those companies and we have been informed by several sources that Palit is also the largest purchaser of NVIDIA GPUs in the world. Palit has moved into the U.S. marketplace although it has not been through “official” NVIDIA channels."

[nutcase]

well, they just lost my business!

I just do not order something unless I know what the price is. Having to almost order it just to see a price is just plain BS!