I'm located in the US. Whenever I look at a non-US website, the prices are just as bad as they are in the US. Maybe I could find a cheaper price from some sketchy/never heard of them website...

Don't forget about miners. They use lots and lots of GPUs

The big unknown is the continued profitability of crypto coin mining. GPU demand will track profitability.

In a different forum, some people have suggested that NVidia doesn't care about gamers...