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PC Gamer
Jess Kinghorn

Some lucky Redditors are getting 50-series cards below MSRP thanks to a weird Walmart quirk

Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics card from various angles.

Seems like only a few weeks back we were grumbling about the price of Nvidia RTX 5070 graphics cards—because we were. Well, some enterprising Redditors have discovered a neat little loophole that's bound to be closed one day, allowing them to pick up a like new RTX 50-series card at a cut price.

It all started with this post about one lucky poster stumbling upon a RTX 5080 card discounted down to $896 from $1280. The Reddit user found the card with the fabled yellow price sticker in the PC section of their local Walmart. Store employees explained to the poster that it was a return from the day before and that they'd been "placing bets [on] how fast it would sell" since putting it back on the shelf. But rather than being a one-off lucky find, this might actually be a 'one weird trick.'

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