Stefan Mileschin

Thanks to the recent coin mining craze, retail price gouging is running amok. Just how bad is it? Radeon R9 290X cards recently hit $900 on Newegg. While things have calmed down a bit since then, NewEgg is still charging a hefty $150 over MSRP. As a commenter has pointed out below, suddenly, as if by magic, Newegg has lowered prices on the currently in stock R9 290X cards by $200. That means you can currently find them for $699 - only $150 over the expected MSRP. Does that change anything about what we said above or in the video? Not really. It only lowers the severity. I am curious to know if this was done by Newegg voluntarily due to pressure from news stories such as these, lack of sales at $899 or with some nudging from AMD.

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2014/02/...g_thanks_coin/