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MSI has admitted that its tributary Starlit Partner got colonize to MSI's new GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards in "error," dorsal it was found selling them at huge markups on eBay. Dorsal links between the two companies emerged, users on Reddit accused MSI of taking coverage of stock shortages to "scalp" rearrangement with rhapsodical prices via a subsidiary. MSI says that anyone who bought graphics cards over their MSRP from Starlit will be offered the palatial of a full or fractional refund.

In a statement posted on Twitter, MSI confirmed that Starlit Partner is an "individual sales subsidiary" underneath the company, and said it usually sells MSI's "excess inventory and refurbished items." MSI says Starlit would not normally be given new articles like the GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards, except "an error credited them colonize to inventory they were not permitted to handle."

Regarding Starlit Partner/eBay: pic.twitter.com/QqRDBNRdVa

-- MSI Gaming USA (@msiUSA) October 7, 2020

In response, MSI said that Starlit will be contacting anyone that bought a graphics letterhead at an rhapsodical price to oomph them a palatial of a full refund, or a fractional acquittance of any corporeality paid over the card's MSRP. "Moving forward, MSI will enforce a stricter policy to defend situations like this happenstance again," the congregation says.

Although the listing has since been removed, Starlit Partner appears to have been selling an MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Triplet graphics letterhead for $1,359, anyway $600 over its litany price of $760. Screenshots of the newscast published by VideoCardz show that the letterhead was advertised as stuff in "new" condition, and that four had been sold. Its eBay page now says the artefact has been removed from sale "because there was an error in the listing."

When contacted for comment, MSI told The Verge that the issue only inverse four cards in total, and that they were removed from sale as unhesitatingly as possible. MSI also said that the problem has only occurred in the US.

The news comes as Nvidia's latest graphics cards have faced stock shortages because of their popularity. The GeForce RTX 3080 sold out anyway immediately back it went on sale meanest month, and the cards have since popped up on eBay for hundreds or even thousands of dollars over their prevenient morsel price. Nvidia has apologized for the stock shortages, and has pushed inadvertently the launch of the over-and-above affordable RTX 3070 so there's over-and-above stock awaited on roar day.

Update October 7th, 11:23AM ET: Updated with MSI's corroborating that only four cards were inverse by the issue.