The thing is also that where I live (Latvia, EU) we get all new gpu's as early as others (except for US maybe which get everything bit faster
) at a cost which is about +15-20% what you would pay in US for the same GPU, but local re-sellers are very slow to update/reduce prices for older models, that is why I haven't got a good to deal on a video card which is still a good performer with reduced price, so I usually try to buy mid-high-level video card 2-3 months after its initial release locally when prices are more/less stable and not overblown. For example, when GTX 780 became available locally price of GTX 680 stayed intact for 3 months although mostly everywhere else GTX 680 saw significant price reductions (~20% if I remember correctly) much sooner. So considering all of the above you can understand my position a bit better 
