PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6650 XT 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card Expired

There is no such thing as future proofing with computers.. Been in the industry for almost 40 years in business myself for 30. I'll advise you as I have hundreds of thousands of clients over the years. Spend less, upgrade more often. This is a great card for the price. Don't always anticipate future price moves. Memory whether it is in GPU, Ram, SSD etc is volatile. Right now pretty low but in my career I've seen 300% increases in a month. The performance difference is about 11% lower from 4060 but price difference is more. The 16gb vs 8gb is pretty much a non-issue for 1080p gaming. If you are looking at higher res..you need to be looking at 4070 Super or 7800XT minimum. This card pairs well with the low priced i5-12600kf which has run as low as $140-$150 or Ryzen 7600X right around $200-$220.

You are equating the price release of a new product based on "open box," price and in some cases probably be a used gpu if someone decides to just not want it anymore a week along the line. By that logic any first party or 3rd party would be selling that item at A 100% GUARANTEED LOSS with that kind of pricing. I live near microcenter and even I think that's an absurdly ridiculous pricing. Your logic would be best applied to older series of gpu, the 6650, the 6600, the 3080, etc. Hell, the rx 580 took almost 2 years till i managed to buy one new for $80 and that one was actually legit albeit taking a month to ship from china.

Also, you have to remove the smooth brain gamer brain mindset that just because you saw it at that price at a microcenter, doesn't mean that that's the price it should go for. If you were to ask anyone who has a ever built or bought a PC I guarantee you that 9/10 times they would say that they didn't buy it off microcenter. I build PC's for a living and the heavy discounts I get from heading directly to Microcenter to buy on sales is basically the profit I make since the labor only takes me less that 1hr of assembly.

But going by your logic as the seller, I would have to 1. Base my price on the lowest price/discount/ sales /preowned (despite it being new) pricing of all the parts for the pc. 2.Further lower my price because most of the time microcenter has it by average 10% lower price.

I might as well give the buyer a $50 gift card and take him to dinner by that logic. And that's just the entry level and mid-gpu. Now Imagine if were talking about high end that costs 500-1100 dollars.

There is a difference between being a frugal spender and being and a tightwad cheapskate.