r/SipsTea • u/SunnSaiyaan • 1d ago

Chugging tea Chinese bride gifts her partner a flagship GPU at wedding he breaks down in tears

That's an ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 that costs around $12,000

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u/Ok-Temporary-8243 1d ago

You can't buy it from a direct channel. But there's nothing stopping an import shop from getting someone to buy one abroad and bringing it back into the city. It's actually a big loophole that the US is trying to close since you have Chinese "tourists" trying to leave the country with suitcase fulls of high end cards

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u/64590949354397548569 1d ago

It was milk when that greed happened. Now its GPU.

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u/honorable_raegdan 1d ago

So you can sell it in the country but can’t import it?

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u/Ok-Temporary-8243 1d ago

You can't import it from the US. But I don't think countries like Singapore obey the export ban. Basically if you're willing to pay significantly above msrp, there's a range of grey market avenues for you to get the card 

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u/honorable_raegdan 1d ago

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

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u/KlutzyValuable 1d ago

There’s a couple hour long Tech Jesus video where he goes over there and interviews people who buy and sell grey market cards over there. 

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u/Rare-Reserve5436 21h ago

There is an re-export ban on new GPUs and nvda may do spot checks if you buy in bulk.

The way to get around it is by setting up a “data center” or crypto mining facility in an old abandoned warehouse in Malaysia, buy the GPUs from Singapore. Put the GPUs there for six months or so, then maybe NVDA does the spot checks to make sure they aren’t re-sold.

Now create some internal emails that the GPUs were not suitable and would be replaced by newer GPUs.

Sell GPUs to parallel exporters bringing it into China.

It’s a crime now, of course.