Lol pedo joe? It is the companies playing the game, it has already been proven the chip shortage is not causing this hike in price. Pedo joe helps nothing, but it is corporations being greedy nothing more. Amd could easily be capitalizing off of this and selling their reasonably priced gpu's, which would force the third parties to reduce their price. **bleep** the 5700 xt was the new thing when i was about to buy, but hey if they want to play these games, I can play all day.