Newegg (US online retailer, GPU category)

ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3090 24GB GDDR6X bare card, Newegg direct, pre-tax, observed 2026-10-03. Same-day peer listings: GIGABYTE Gaming OC $2,399.00, MSI Suprim X $2,399.00, EVGA FTW3 Ultra $2,399.00, ASUS ROG Strix OC $2,499.00, NVIDIA FE $2,180.00. PRICE CLASS: this is an ASKING price captured from a live listing or product page, i.e. the price at which a seller advertises the part for sale right now. It is NOT a sold/completed transaction price, NOT an auction result and NOT a dealer cost. A realised price on the same day would generally be lower, and for used or refurbished parts the gap between ask and realised is typically wide PERISHABLE-FIGURE STAMP (added 2026-10-04, uniform across data/supply/ so it is greppable). PRICE CLASS: ASKING price captured from a live listing or product page - the price at which a seller advertises the item right now. NOT a sold/completed transaction price, NOT an auction result and NOT a dealer cost; for used or refurbished parts the gap between ask and realised is typically wide. OBSERVED: 2026-10-03 RE-VERIFY BY: 2027-01-04 - the repo's quarterly re-verification bar. After that date this figure is presumed drifted and must be re-checked against its source before it is quoted again. A price without its observation date is noise; this stamp exists so a reader can tell a fresh figure from a stale one without reading prose. UNIT: ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3090 24GB GDDR6X bare card, Newegg direct, pre-tax, observed 2026-10-03 READING RULE: No further perishable flag is published for this figure.

NEGATIVE, DELIBERATELY NOT STRUCTURAL: no lead time in weeks is printed for these SKUs. It is not that no vendor in the chain publishes one - CDW does, and it is recorded on cdw-enterprise as 'published' - but this channel routes to 'request a quote' or shows a stock count instead, so the number exists elsewhere in the market and is not surfaced here. Checked 2026-10-04 per source spl-negative-no-oem-publishes-lead-time.

EAR 3A001 or EAR99 (below the 3A090.a TPP / performance-density thresholds) + EAR 744.23 (Entity List) + EAR 744.6 (Unverified / MEU lists)

MECHANISM: the part falls BELOW the ECCN 3A090.a/.b TPP and performance-density thresholds, so the advanced-computing licence regime, its case-by-case China/Macau carve-out and its D:5 screening do NOT attach. What remains is the general EAR plus destination-country import rules and screening of the consignee and its ultimate parent against the Entity, Unverified and MEU lists. NO LICENCE REQUIRED for the sale itself; the screening is a party-listing check, not a performance-threshold check. The binding ECCN determination for any specific part is the exporter's own classification, not this record.

In practice a marketplace as much as a retailer: the RTX 3090 listing page was topped by third-party MXZ PC gaming desktops, and one RTX 3090 FE listing was sold by a non-Newegg seller with a 4-business-day ship window. The RTX 3090 is no longer a value pick in new condition here - a 2020 flagship lists at roughly 1.5x a current RTX 5070 Ti ($1,249.99 at B&H on the same date). Arc B580 boards were visible at $355.15, above the $309.99 Micro Center price. Filter to 'Sold by Newegg' + 'In Stock' or you are buying grey-market import cards with no US warranty. EXPORT CONTROL (2026-10-04, mechanism-level; source spl-eccn-3a090-ccl): consumer gaming cards of this generation generally do NOT meet the 3A090.a TPP/performance-density parameters and fall under ECCN 3A001 or are designated EAR99, i.e. the advanced-computing licence regime with its case-by-case and D:5 screening does not attach to them. This is exactly what makes export status a PER-PART property rather than a per-vendor one: a GeForce RTX 5090 and a datacenter/professional part from the same vendor and the same process generation can carry entirely different control status. Recorded as false for that reason, NOT because the part is unregulated - it remains subject to the EAR generally, to destination-country import rules, and to screening of the consignee and its ultimate parent against the Entity, Unverified and MEU lists (15 CFR part 744). The binding ECCN determination for any specific SKU is the exporter's own classification, which no public vendor page states. LEAD TIME: null, and deliberately so. A marketplace or big-box reseller publishes STOCK STATE, not a lead time - where this record shows in-stock that means the listing was available on the observation date, and where it shows backorder no week window is published at all. Converting one into the other would be an invention. The one exception in the whole chain is CDW, which does print windows (source spl-cdw-published-lead-times-gpu-2026-10); note that even there the scarcest SKUs - the RTX PRO 6000 96GB cards and DGX Spark - read 'Item Backordered' with NO estimate, so scarcity and lead time are inversely related in what distributors actually publish. Probe log in source spl-negative-no-oem-publishes-lead-time. | PRICE-ATTRIBUTION FIX 2026-10-12 (repo-hygiene wave, ledger D12 takeover): removed nvidia-rtx-4090 and intel-arc-b580 - price_basis names the ASUS TUF RTX 3090 at $2,399; the B580's actual figure here ($355.15) is a notes observation, and no 4090 figure exists in this record at all. RULE A of the same gotcha.