so here i am doing my thing building up a little budget banger and all of a sudden i get a message
about someone wanting to trade an xbox series s for a gaming pc and at the moment i am out of gpus
that would be around that price point and a pc to trade for a series s but i do have
my little potato so i said look this is all i can do at the moment and they messaged me
back and they said sure i want this thing i want a pc asap i got the series s for trade
and they said look let's do this trade so we're just going to quickly check out what this pc is
and then we'll put it in the car and we'll go do the trade and we'll talk about the pc market in
general as well especially for you guys who are trying to sell pcs right now you want to know
what the update is on the current pc market i can help give you some answers so let's get into it
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you can get activated today links in description below so here's the pc right here it's a gtx
460. i know before you laugh i did tell the person who wanted to trade it i said look guys
i don't have any gpus like that around xbox series s performance at the moment i've sold out of them
and i said this is all i can do right now and they said look i just need a pc
to do some gaming at the moment doesn't matter if it's a potato so they wanted to really be on pc
maybe perhaps they wanted to play some dota 2 or something and look i sometimes i don't ask i
just tell people look this is what i've got and this is all i can do for you and they accept it
so what we're going to do is we're going to drop this in the car right now go pick up this series s
and we just got back now with the xbox series s and we managed to and we're gonna stop
at that word manage and we're gonna put a word before it and that is micro and so that's gonna
be micro manage and basically in 2016 2017 if you guys were following a lot of the used builds
i was micromanaging hard and basically we're returning to that level again where i'm going
to be personally that's what i'm going to be doing i'm going to be micromanaging much more
as opposed to last year where i was doing a lot of macro and that i was just getting builds
giving them a quick cleanups going through things a lot faster than i otherwise would
because the real demand was there and so it was more of a macro based market last year where
there was a lot more money flying around so if you're one of those people who like to build pcs
especially if you're like me and you like to resell them or if you're in the market to even
buy a pc then you may be wondering why if you're a buyer prices for pcs are still considerably high
but if you're a seller you can't really move your pc you notice sales are slowing down what
i'm talking about in today's video is mainly going to be what i'm seeing here locally in
australia especially to my experiences in buying and selling pcs but it may be different where you
are in the world some people in different parts of the world may have a little bit of a boom going
on at the moment especially if the government has different kinds of stimulus measures going through
different kinds of uh cycles going through your economy and that you're emerging from lockdown
economic activities picking up but those points aside we'll get back to the real demand because
that's the most important thing when it comes to buying and selling anything really in this
world it's not so much the supply it's so much the demand you can have a product that doesn't exist
and have no demand for it and the price is going to be zero but if you've got a product that's in
supply and the demand is higher for it then it will have a higher price now you're probably
like brian slow down for a second what what is this demand versus real demand well when it comes
to pcs i would call this a weird sort of this is one thing i'm going to be coining it myself
because it's how i like to see things and that is the amount of pcs for sale
versus the amount of buyers wanting to buy those pcs and so right now what we can see
is there's a lot of pcs for sale if i go to my local marketplace it's easy to go get a gaming
pc there's quite a few of them available but overall there are less gaming pcs on the market
than there once was and more importantly it's getting harder for sellers to source parts at
what the market wants to pay for a particular gaming pc with a particular set of specs
and hence this is where our problem starts to come in for the seller but if we look at the amount of
buyers in the market right now i'd say it's a lot less than it was this time last year so our real
demand is low but that's pretty much coming from the balance of last year where the real demand was
ridiculously high and remember when people tell you that there's a balance to all things
they're not joking because there literally is a balance to all things and if you're trying
to sell a gaming pc right now it's just a simple procedure of you're simply going to have to become
more competitive to get a sale as opposed to last year where it was much easier to sell your pc now
what if you are a buyer well here's where things get a lot more interesting in my opinion because
this could go two different ways now one of these scenarios could mean that we get very cheap prices
and you're able to build a gaming pc for very cheap for a certain amount of time the other
scenario would mean that we have ups and downs in prices but it's really a slow market and it's much
like if you're trying to sell the pc you're trying to buy the pc the market is just going to suck
so we'll get on to the sucky scenario first so now i am wondering brian prices are still pretty high
i can't pick up a gaming pc for anywhere near the prices that i could get in say 2018 or 2019
what's going on and now this in my opinion has to do with a completely different thing in the market
known as what i've been talking about on the channel recently known as stagflation and that's
basically inflation crossed over with low economic activity in other words real demand is going down
yet the real supply of products is also going down and so that means higher prices still wins
out in the end and so that is a stagflationary environment in a nutshell for you guys and so
when we look at gaming pcs the amount of people selling graphics cards for instance there's
nowhere near the amount of people selling these things as there was before the pandemic started
but if we contrast that to the other parts like ssds and ddr4 memory in cases the manufacturers
like azus and msi they're resorting to bundling their gravis cards in with a lot of these products
because the supply is actually much higher than the demand and they don't want to lower the prices
because they have what is known as a price floor where if the prices go under that level
it's no longer profitable for them to make that product so they therefore have to stop production
and so if we look at this vicious cycle of inflation that could in the future
mean higher priced ssds higher priced everything if the supply is cut because it's more expensive
to manufacture those parts in the first place but as it stands for now prices of these things
are still pretty good which is why i do suggest if you can build a pc minus the graphics card or even
just go with a cheap rx 470 or something like that even though you're going to be overpaying for
it in the current market then you can wait it out until graphics cards do get cheaper which
don't worry they will because stagflation and inflation will hit the prices of cryptocurrencies
where no one will have any money to buy them because they're a non-essential item
and as opposed to essential items that's what people will need and so they'll have to pay the
higher prices for those leaving them less money to pay for non-essential items and that means the
prices of those things will come down versus the prices of essential items which will go up and so
going forward there's going to be massive pressure and this is what i said in the past there's going
to be massive amounts of pressure on nvidia and amd to do something to deter crypto miners from
buying these graphics cards and getting them into the hands of gamers because that means that all
the other products that they sell for gaming pcs can then start being sold now the second scenario
related to that time frame really gets me excited because what we're seeing here with gravis cards
nvidia and amd and even intel coming into the market these guys want to keep pumping
out these graphics cards as fast as they can as many as possible because the profit is just
insanely high right now however if we hit this mark in the market where crypto profitability
just goes plummets which i think ethereum have talked about from august they're going
to be dropping the mining profitability a lot and also the move later on after that
which will mean that mining for ethereum will be irrelevant altogether and then of course all those
crypto miners will go to other cryptocurrencies and then that will just tank the profitability and
so we'll see a massive sell-off of graphics cards which will take everyone by surprise and with all
the other parts being cheap at the time you'll see this great period of where you can build a pc
for relatively cheap though that won't last forever of course because the cure for low prices
is low prices just like the cure for high prices is high prices but this is where we start to see
the idea behind especially what nvidia is doing and that is putting in those hash rate limiters
because they want to only get the cards out to gamers now because they want to keep the
market more in balance believe it or not because when that other scenario happens it's really bad
not just for their stock prices but also for their sales and that the gamers are then buying
the used graphics cards rather than going to the stores and buying a new graphics card which nvidia
makes profit on one but doesn't make any profit on the other but what about crypto and gpu prices
here's where the next video that i'm going to make i'm going to be talking about this directly and
although we have seen gpu prices drop and we have seen supply come back into stock it's a little
bit different to what anyone really envisioned i would i was hoping by now we would have seen
that rug already get pulled out from underneath crypto's feet and we would have seen much cheaper
gpu prices that golden period for pc gamers i hope that would have come about already but it seems to
be like we're halfway there and all's we need is that big catalyst but nvidia and the forces to be
will be stopping that as much as possible because they don't want that scenario to happen
and so they're trying to ease into those lower prices but the good thing is is if you've been
holding off from buying an overpriced graphics card you'll notice that the prices are coming down
and they will keep coming down because again the raw demand from gamers just isn't there this
year versus what it was last year so tldr if you are a seller in the market right now then you're
going to have to really be a lot more competitive than you once were for me i'm going to be micro
managing a lot more and for me personally i really enjoy the micro side of life just as much as i
enjoy the macro so you're probably like well brian shouldn't you be down about this and it's like no
because this is what i do and so i'm just riding the wave it's like if you go to the beach you just
wait for that good wave to come along and then you ride it and then the next one comes along and it
might not be as good so you can't predict how big the waves are going to be on any given day but one
thing for sure is if you're out there riding long enough then you may catch a good wave but it might
also get eaten by a shark so the news for sellers isn't really that good but if you're a buyer
then your patience has already paid off a little bit especially when we compare it to may prices
and it's definitely going to get even better do not worry about that anyhow guys that's it for
me today if you have any questions or comments or experiences of your own be sure to share them in
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way and with that aside we do have the question of the day which comes from mr daxter crane
and they ask okay brian who gave you the ketamine he's too jovial in this video and uh lately i've
been um on higher spirits because i picked up and this is a little thing i picked up a gym
for 250 bucks aussie and this thing goes for about 700 brand new but the best thing about it was
was that there i got this really good discount and the guy even built it up for me so
he barely used it i think he said he'd use it twice or something over six months
but it was just such a nice gesture so he bought it for seven hundred dollars built it up for
me even tested it out and then just gave me a massive discount and this was such a nice guy
but on a serious note that's the power of the used market if you look at supply and demand
and study it closely then you can always pick up a deal never forget that and so when we look at the
home gym at least where i am locally things are opening back up again gyms are opening up and so
people are going back to the gym and then people who bought these products thinking that they would
need them no longer need them or they got tired of them very quickly and so you can get a bargain
if you're in the right place at the right time and that's always going to change in relation to
what market is popping and booming at the time i'm sure if this was six or seven months ago
i wouldn't be able to find a home gym like this for anywhere near the money i'd have
to go buy it brand new and the prices of the brand new gyms would have been a lot more so
patience is a critical factor never get caught up in the hype because you'll probably end up
in the long run missing out anyhow guys i'll catch you on the next one peace out for now bye
you