Black Friday is prime time for GPU shopping. One Black Friday shopper got lucky when they stumbled upon an alleged GTX 1060 that would have been an absolute bargain. Redditor "scorpionthecruel" shared the story of how it turned out to be a GTX 560 Ti instead, a graphics card that launched 14 years ago.
The Redditor was shopping at a Salvation Army and stumbled upon a random GTX 1060 "chilling on a shelf" with a $10 price tag — but since it was Black Friday, the store had everything half off, dropping the price down to $5. After buying the alleged GTX 1060, the Redditor opened the MSI GTX 1060 3GB box only to find a Gigabyte GTX 560 Ti inside.
The purchase was disappointing for the now-GTX 560 Ti owner who had hoped to flip the GTX 1060 for a small profit. Losing $5 to is unlikely to keep the owner awake at night. We've seen and reported on much worse GPU purchases, including those where buyers paid full price or over MSRP. Many of these switches involve either full-blown GPU swaps, missing GPU cores and/or memory, or GPU boxes full of rice and macaroni.
These stories are good reminders that not every graphics card listing on the market is a good deal. If the price is too reasonable to be true, it probably is. For example, the prices of used GTX 1060 3GB are around $50 at the time of writing, and 6GB trims are around $60-$80, so seeing a GTX 1060 for under $10 should be suspicious.
If you are in the market for a new graphics card, there are a plethora of Black Friday sales still going on right now. For instance, MSI's RTX 5070 Shadow is priced at a historic low of $479.
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