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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Make scalping illegal, fuck these leeches

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If people could delay their gratification, and just not buy form scalpers then more chips will become available, and will get greater profits and the scalpers will be left holding the bag.

Win win win.

[–] fulg 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It seems everyone forgot that not too long ago, you could back order something and the store would call/ship whenever they got it.

Just let me give you my credit card number in exchange for a spot in the waiting list, then the scalpers lose and I get my new launch thing whenever they get around to it. But no, that would be too simple, gotta get the crowd riled up and race for the available units!

I suppose this could be abused like everything else but it wouldn’t be worse than what we have now with fucking scalpers buying up the little stock that trickles in via automated bots.

It’s not about getting your fix sooner for the new shiny, sometimes you really need a new GPU to replace the one you’ve had for 5 years! Why should you settle for the previous generation if the new one just came out and you are willing to pay launch MSRP for that privilege (not 2-3x MSRP for scalpers!!).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly. But seeing how many "Look my new dual 4090 rig!" there were on Reddit during the pandemic, I don't have a lot of hope.

[–] Anticorp 2 points 1 month ago

The 4090 didn't come out until well after the pandemic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This is all on the manufacturer. AMD often does this, gets themselves a whole lot of press, to release like 10 units to the public. Then they bask in all the, "people are fighting to get it" press. Look at what they did with those 7900XTX cards, like they pretty much pushed me right onto nvidia's lap. I'll never be able to wrap my head around this strategy, why they think it's a winner. It's great that you have a good chip, but if most can't get it, then what do you expect your sales to be like? I mean I can count on one hand the amount of times I've queued for a computer chip, because it's zero.

[–] darthsid 0 points 1 month ago

Which will get scalped again. Are you being purposely obtuse?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Sadly that dopamine kick hits hard