mr_skittlesdon't worry dude it was overpriced AF anyway ($900 USD). I bought it tho because I REALLY wanted it and was the best deal I could find for this particular model. Hopefully there will be another drop sometime later this year at a more reasonable price.
Couple things. First, I didn't try to claim that this particular model was a fantastic deal- however with the current GPU market the lowest you're going to find a NEW 1080ti is about $720. Any lower than that is pretty much immediately scooped up. And a couple months after release there was no price soaring because of miners, so your anecdote is kind of irrelevant.