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Zotac is selling RTX 50-series GPUs directly to customers to thwart scalpers
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this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
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I was in the fray for a 3000 during 2020 for cyberpunk. Glad to see they haven't changed anything on the storefronts. Newegg, best buy, Nvidia, none of them cared to fix anything. They got their money, what do they care.
I'm not a day one persona anymore. Hell there aren't any games out right now that I want those sick graphics for. More than happy to wait.
But how are you going to play The Sims?
Same for me. I wanted to upgrade from 3070 to 5080, but missed it. I was too afraid to wait for the 5070 TI release, so I instead bought one of the last 4070 Ti Super at MSRP.
I will stop trying to upgrade on day one. Just buy the previous gen a few months before the new one, and it will be perfectly fine.
I do not understand how such practice is still legal. No one care, and it is a plague in more and more fields (I really hope Nintendo will produce enough machines to avoid the PS5 launch fiasco which lasted 2 years).
They saw what scalpers did to ticket prices and decided to implement the same strategy. The problem is not scalpers, it's easy credit, regards with too easy access to money and purposeful low production to move the scale towards veblen goods.