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/TheIrradiant 1d ago

Its atleast $9k here in the states, and god knows how much in China.

Allegedly people have to smuggle it in, so this can be considered a huge flex for the family.

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u/ProfessionalFine5023 22h ago

Also the gender ratio is very skewed so women in China usually don’t buy men anything .

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u/Ms4Sheep 14h ago

At least 7k (if gaming card) here (Chinese online shopping) but mostly 10k

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u/splashaddikt 17h ago

So he married her just for this

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u/CommanderYarde 13h ago

He didn’t even know he was getting it hence his reaction. So no he didn’t marry her “just for this”.

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u/ManifestoEnjoyer 22h ago

I doubt it has to be smuggled. But yes, still very expensive.

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u/soundmagnet 19h ago

They are not officially sold in China depsite being made in China. Smuggling them in isn't hard though.

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u/T-StrangerXD 19h ago

Thats call smuggling?

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u/xRolox 18h ago

Are they not made in Taiwan?

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u/syu425 17h ago

It’s about the same price

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u/Revolutionary_Pop544 21h ago

Something produced in China had to be smuggled in China? Big brain

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u/PandiBong 15h ago

Yeah, wait until you hear about the Irish potato famine...

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u/Notyit 20h ago

The new silk road 

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u/moretunaforme 21h ago

Lucky i'm not in china.

But sad because I still don't even have money to purchase it. Oh well local llm