Sign up for notifications with each retailer and hope you see it before they sell out. 

Exactly.  You shouldn't be converting to fiat daily right now, in my opinion.  Could go either way, but if you didn't believe that the coin you are mining isn't going to go up in the future, you probably wouldn't be mining it to begin with, right? 

Joel and Travis were giving away free badcoin in 2017.  They were/are worth zero, but they were free.

I don't think anyone whould be telling him where he should start thinking about selling, when we don't know where he bought in.  But yeah ... I wouldn't sell at 15K, if I bought in at 10K.  And you certainly shouldn't consider selling now, if you bought in at 18K. 

But if he acquired that 1 btc for 1K, I'm not going to tell someone that they shouldn't take a profit in fiat.  Maybe not 100%, but do what you feel comfortable with.

Cheap enough ... I pay 0.10 cents usd per kwh and I'm extremely happy with what my mining farm is doing.

My comments are USA related as far as prices that I'm quoting goes, but when I say reseller, I mean small time reseller ... Not major retailers like B&H, Fry's Electronics, Best Buy, New Egg, ect.  Some of those major retailers do allow small time resellers to sell within their platform and those are the people who are price gouging out the ass in the United States.  But for the most part in the USA, the major retailers that I speak of are not pumping prices.  I've seen increases, but not an astronomical increase.  None of them that I have purchased from in the past few months are even 15% higher than MSRP.  You just have to be patient if you are buying gpu's at the moment. 

I agree with you.  People who are paying double or triple or more than MSRP right now are going to be very disappointed in the long run as opposed to just investing in the coin that they wanted to mine to begin with.  Maybe those gpu's they paid too much for will eventually pay for themselves, if they make the right market moves and maybe they will not.  That's total speculation that I'm not even going to get into right now, but the fact is that the longer it takes for the card to pay for itself, the less time you have for that card to generate a profit before it enters the ending days of it's life.

Or better yet, go to the Gigabyte site and find the manual there.

Download the PDF and search from Adobe Reader ... Not sure if you're searching the entire document or just the current displayed page from the online version on that site.

Most of the manuals can be found online.  I still keep the paper ones though.

Are you in the US or CA?  There is a 20% difference in the dollar between the two, but anyway ... Asking because when you post prices, I'm trying to figure out what currency you're speaking of.  In the US, even the shit stain Amazon, eBay, and NewEgg resellers aren't asking $800USD for a RX580.  More like sub $600USD for that card.  Regardless, I wouldn't pay $500USD for a RX580.

And no one in their right mind is going to pay $1200USD for a RX580 in the near future.  If they do, they deserve to lose their shit based on the lack of research that they put in.  Major retailers are not currently doing it and I don't forsee them ever price gouging remotely close to the extent of the small time resellers that are trying to make a quick buck.

I don't even care what the dumbass smaller time resellers are charging these days, because I would never buy from them anyway.  No one should be starting out in gpu mining right now, if they are buying high from a small timer.  Just fucking watch, wait, and make your purchase from a large retailer who isn't trying to fuck you in the ass.

Same reason I never throw away Google ... I do like keeping the paper manuals though.

And your point is what?

Friends don't like friends buy gpu's drunk ... Lol ... Also ... This thread will die in 2018.  Anyone want to hedge against it? Lol. 

Lol ... What will he do on the moon?  To my knowledge, there isn't anyone else living there full time.  Although, I have been looking at realestate up there.

Oh we have.  Some just don't think the show will go on and on and on.  Some think they know what the end all, be all really is.  Maybe their guess is correct and maybe it is not, but it isn't anything other than a guess.  Anyone entering this market by any means, should consider it to be highly speculative, and be ok with losing 100% of their investment. 

Other than that ... Speculate on, mine on, invest on ...

  Algos, but yes, I agree.

I'm going to continue ... I agree with you that people should not be buying up gpu's at current insane prices from small timers.  I don't agree with you in the aspect that gpu mining dies in 2018, because you think ASIC's will take over Equihash.  Who gives a fuck about Equihash.  None of my rigs are even mining that algo today.  You may have not said it in this thread, but you have in others.  And that is where I don't agree with you at all.

Do you take into consideration that the idiots who pay those prices are a very small percentage of the mining community?  And very new at that.  Probably trying to build their first mining rig.  The number of cards available at those insane prices don't even allow it to make up that much of the market.  We're talking small time eBay sellers ... Small time businesses who only sell gpu's, because they think they can make a buck from it.  None of the large scale retailers are price gouging to the extent that you speak of.  X2, X3, X4.

B&H, Newegg, Amazon, MicroCenter, Fry's, Ect ...  None of them have ever asked $1200, $1300, $1400, $1500 for a 1080ti.  

Some of those companies have platforms that allow for resellers to sell at whatever price they want, through their website.  It's like the "Buy It Now" eBay of NewEgg or whatever other company that offers that to small timers.  

Case in point ... I emailed a Amazon seller that I bought from back in November at a very good price about cards that I wanted a few weeks ago.  Those dumbasses actually sent me an email back saying they some stock, but they could not fulfill my order.  They also wanted X3 per card at the time compared to what I paid them for the same cards in November.  I told them that they were insane and I explained why.  Their reply was that they sell gpu's at current market value.  Perhaps their current market value isn't updated on a regular basis, but I essentially told them to fuck off, and let me know when they wanted to sell their stock.  

If you want to sell a card for $500 when btc is valued at 10K, you shouldn't be asking for X2, X2, X4 when btc is valued at 11K.  That's just hte result of a shortage by the manufacturer and a handfull of stupid idiots.  

Same here in the Midwest USA.  I mean you can find them, but you have to pay double or triple msrp and that's a horrible business decision.

Make sure you install steel bars on all of the windows of those old houses in Detroit.