apparently so, but not back to msrp.

You decide, willing buyer willing seller. fyi LHR might or might not drive the non LHR variant up, but it will not be cheaper than non LHR. most likely will go on par, market needed some time to recover.
say people buy 7k takes about 10 months to break even, you do the maths and nego with the seller.

Bulk players cost for 3070 is about 4.8k or less on current timing, 5.8k or less for 3080, 7 to 8.5k 3090.
profit driven enterprise maybe will sell slightly markup or about cost or lower. longer player avrg cost is about 3k +- per 3070, 4k+- 3080.
Better dont buy inflated price GPU, if its within your means or buying purely from mining profits, just go for it.
Current eth profits are about 1 year ago pricing when its 6 months to breakeven on launch pricing. current pricing will take years to break even if you only mine and do nothing else.

Asic on the other hand can totally consider the newer variant

nice, palit 3060ti please replace thermal pads and paste for better performance and temperature.
can get steady 60 to 61 mh/s @ 120w. and to turn off the led lights also will boost a little bit on efficiency.

dont worry about pricing, as long as your rig is always on the money is coming back 

Mine running about 58C without changing, after changing about 51C.

ouch, if you could wait for a little while, Dell XPS is not a bad choice

I've gotten my Dell XPS full system with 11th Gen i7, 16Gb RAM, 512Gb NVMe SSD + 1TB HDD, and a Dell 3060Ti for the same price of your used Palit 3060Ti

my waiting time was just 2 weeks from ordering to receiving

Mining relly bad now no profit