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Graphics card maker MSI issued a statement after its subsidiary company, Starlit Partner, was caught selling MSI GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 graphics cards on eBay at inflated prices.
As noted in a report on PC Mag, Starlit Partner has sold at least four RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio cards for $ 1,359 – $ 1,399, and between eight and 11 units of the RTX 3090 Gaming X Trio, sold for up to $ 2,599. These prices are well above the RRP of $ 759 and $ 1,589 respectively.
The sales were viewed and discussed on Reddit, and users realized that Starlit Partner is a trademark of MSI. The disclosure of the situation has prompted MSI to post a tweet apologizing for the situation.
Regarding Starlit Partner / eBay: pic.twitter.com/QqRDBNRdVa
– MSI Gaming USA (@msiUSA) October 7, 2020
According to the statement, Starlit Partner is a subsidiary of MSI dealing with excess inventory and refurbished items. Through a “mistake”, Starlit was able to purchase the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series cards, which were heavily sold out, which it then sold on eBay at hugely inflated prices.
“Starlit Partner was instructed to contact individual customers who purchased these graphics card products and offer two options: return the product and receive a full refund, or a partial refund of the amount paid over MSI’s MSRP,” said MSI. .
“In the future, MSI will apply a stricter policy to prevent situations like this from happening again,” the statement concluded.
Nvidia’s RTX 3080 and 3090 cards were released in September and have already proven to be a monumental success. Cards made by Nvidia itself, known as the reference version or ‘Founders Edition’, are completely sold out, and the situation is the same for cards developed by third parties, such as MSI variants. Resellers have been selling cards on auction sites at huge prices, which means that only those who are willing to pay extraordinary prices have been able to get their hands on an RTX 30 series since stores were sold out.
For more information on the latest batch of cards from Nvidia, take a look at our RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 review.
Matt Purslow is the UK news and entertainment writer for IGN.
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