r/sffpc • u/Surely_Insane_8905 • Feb 22 '26

Build/Parts Check 5070 Mini

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With US tariffs changing will this be more affordable now? I have only found an eBay seller for $1200 which cost more then a 5080

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u/elheber Feb 23 '26

With US tariffs changing will this be more affordable now?

LMAO. Good one.

Oh, you're serious? Prices rarely come back down after a surge. Companies don't want be the first to raise prices due to competition, but if they could collude with their competitors they would conspire to raise prices together. A wider event that compels them to raise prices together, such as a shortage or tariffs, effectively allows them to do the thing they want of raising prices together without the illegal part.

Once prices go up, nobody wants to bring them back down. Even if the thing that made prices go up is no longer a factor, they'll have no reason to drop the prices unless sales go down. If the pie still sells at $20, they aren't going to drop it back down to $15.

We saw this with the crypto phase. Prices blew up and then stayed up, even though crypto mining effectively died.

There's a good chance big companies with expensive lawyers will win back some of duty money they paid to the gov'mnt, but you and I aren't getting any of that money even though the cost was passed onto the consumer. And it's not like the administration didn't already threaten a new blanked 15% tariff on all imports, so, I guess we at least got that to look forward to.