> Ebay is reasonable.

Paying a scalper on ebay isn't. Which is what I said. Misstating what I said is disingenuous.

> You could have gotten another 1080Ti from a legitimate previous owner.

They were being scalped as well. Also people were holding onto their 10 series cards because the other cards were too expensive. So I would have had to buy an older card (which I had already had one fail) at an inflated price.

I could have bought a GT 710 or a GT1030, but that wouldn't have been any better than my 8800GTS really.

I could have flown to Taiwan and bought a card. I could have stolen one. I am sure you will invent another fantasy scenario where I could have gotten a graphics card that I didn't think about at the time.

The fact is that I could not buy a new card from an online retailer in the UK as they were out of stock. Even when they did come into stock there was a lotto system. So you couldn't really buy one then. That is a fact.