Earlier this year, we published a story about how the majority of distributors within the South Asian and Middle Eastern markets don't play well with customers and most of the time, even with top tier brands and partners of NVIDIA, AMD, & Intel. The GPU situation is something that has affected the global market but in the case of South Asian countries such as Pakistan, things are made worse by official distributors and retailers.
ASUS's Primary Distributor For Pakistan Market Sets Insane MSRPs on GPUs, Other Official Distributors Selling 4-Year Old Refurbished GPUs at Scaled Prices
We are aware the prices are bad in every region but there are some things in which South Asian & Middle Eastern stand out. It's not just retailers that are using scalping practices but so are official distributors and sometimes even AIBs who allow such tactics to be used in the first place and don't block supply to these retailers even after they continue to make huge profits out of customers. It was also seen that the same distributors broke the NDA by selling unreleased GPUs weeks prior to launch through back-channel dealings. They first set insane prices then released the list prices of these GPUs to their top-tier customers who had demanded either single or bulk units of the said cards.
We are now sitting at the tail end of 2021 and it looks like the same distributors have come up with more innovative tactics to scam consumers. The following lists are shared by our sources who got...
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