I was planning to buy new in October but decided to wait. That was a bad decision and I had to go down from 64 to 32GB, while still paying more.

Fun times.

Me too. I had saved up to make a small server. I guess I'll have to wait up until 2027–2028 at this rate.

Buy used gear and rip out the guts???

That too is becoming overpriced. Besides, that makes it hard to find what you're looking for, and it doesn't speak to the fact that we, the people, also deserve to be able to buy new stuff at reasonable prices, without some cartel doing price fixing.

I am sure it sucks if you had a build planned. I had to shelve a build when graphics cards shot a few years back all the sudden.

In general, I can't but help think it feels like something we will remember in the future as a marker of the peak of the LLM bubble.