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The one exception is buying them second hand.
Two years ago, I got a second-hand 3090 with an AMD 5950, 32g ram, 2tb nvme and 2tb HD for $1500, It was like eight months old when I bought it off of the previous owner.
I threw in another 32 gigs of RAM and upgraded the NVMe to a higher spec one, dropped the HDD and let the old nvme do its work.
Been running like a champ, and I imagine it will probably be another couple of years before I seriously consider an upgrade.