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#3458555 4-Feb-2026 08:56

richms:

When I first saw it bidding was at about $1k and then before I knew it was past 10k.

https://archive.li/hGqCH

Also, have to add LOL to the whole thing.

Seriously?

"It is known for Fluf World, a metaverse world of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) featuring cartoon rabbits with distinct characteristics, and AI League, a FIFA-licensed mobile football game. "

Well, no wonder it failed. Bunny universe, NFT? What were these people thinking? Don't people know that metaverse, NFT, crypto is the land of failure?

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#3458557 4-Feb-2026 08:59

"All items are sold "as-is" and "where-is" with no warranties expressed or implied."

hmmmmm

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#3458603 4-Feb-2026 10:19

gehenna:

"All items are sold "as-is" and "where-is" with no warranties expressed or implied."

hmmmmm

That is normal for auctions. It's just idiots that bid up well over what they should and get stung that is the problem.

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#3459372 6-Feb-2026 17:32

Does it run on Linux? 😁😉

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#3459421 7-Feb-2026 05:35

Tinkerisk:

Does it run ~~on Linux~~Crysis? 😁😉

FTFY

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#3459444 7-Feb-2026 09:57

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Tinkerisk:

Does it run ~~on Linux~~Crysis? 😁😉

FTFY

That was a rhetorical question, since everyone knows how well nVIDIA supports Linux drivers. 😉

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#3460221 10-Feb-2026 14:52

Was one of the last bidders but price just went a bit beyond budget. Hypothesis from my colleagues who went to do the inspection and saw other people there (and later modification of the auction page) was a Chinese buyer wanting to send the GPUs to China. Happens all the time with 4090s based on the number of "faulty" 4090s on Trademe missing VRAM and the actual GPU chips....

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#3460223 10-Feb-2026 15:00

Well congrats to whoever ended up with the unit and its addons ~$287k + fees @ 15 % + GST (~$43k in total) ... would be a good result for the auction house compared to their normal rates.

now starts the big job of removing it and cashing in all those NFT's :-D

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#3460229 10-Feb-2026 15:39

sampler:

Well congrats to whoever ended up with the unit and its addons ~$287k + fees @ 15 % + GST (~$43k in total) ... would be a good result for the auction house compared to their normal rates.

now starts the big job of removing it and cashing in all those NFT's :-D

Given the current boom in RAM prices, the 2TB of DDR5 probably meant the receiver got a higher price now than when it was bought new 3 years ago..

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#3460286 10-Feb-2026 16:45

Zeon:

Was one of the last bidders but price just went a bit beyond budget. Hypothesis from my colleagues who went to do the inspection and saw other people there (and later modification of the auction page) was a Chinese buyer wanting to send the GPUs to China. Happens all the time with 4090s based on the number of "faulty" 4090s on Trademe missing VRAM and the actual GPU chips....

What would you have used it for?

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#3463742 23-Feb-2026 11:08

Zeon:

Was one of the last bidders but price just went a bit beyond budget. Hypothesis from my colleagues who went to do the inspection and saw other people there (and later modification of the auction page) was a Chinese buyer wanting to send the GPUs to China. Happens all the time with 4090s based on the number of "faulty" 4090s on Trademe missing VRAM and the actual GPU chips....

This is an interesting article on how GPUs are transferred to China in spite of the US "ban".

https://gamersnexus.net/gpus-deep-dive-news/nvidia-ai-gpu-black-market-investigating-smuggling-corruption-governments

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#3463749 23-Feb-2026 12:27

danielparker:

Zeon:

Was one of the last bidders but price just went a bit beyond budget. Hypothesis from my colleagues who went to do the inspection and saw other people there (and later modification of the auction page) was a Chinese buyer wanting to send the GPUs to China. Happens all the time with 4090s based on the number of "faulty" 4090s on Trademe missing VRAM and the actual GPU chips....

What would you have used it for?

Daniel

Two uses, first is for model training. Currently we rent GPUs on-demand but these are becoming hard to source. When not training it would be used for data enrichment.

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