It’s not microcenter afaik, it’s the manufacturers. That’s why different brands are so wildly different prices for the same model. I just checked Msi 6700xt (the ones on the shelf) at microcenter and Best Buy and they’re about the same.

I love the salt though. It highlights how butt hurt everyone gets and wants to blame and hate every one they can, with a sense of entitlement on the possession and price of the gpus. They’re selling a product, it’s up to them to how they want to sell it.

I say this as I waited in line at the last bestbuy launch and trying to get a 3080 since launch. Limiting it to 1 per person isn’t going to stop scalpers. When you can buy something for $700 and resell it for $2K, for a days worth of work(similar to 400k annual salary), all of a sudden you’ll have a lot of people willing to buy to resell and will wait another year for a gpu.

Until supply exceeds demand, prices will always be high.