Wednesday, October 21st 2020

AMD Issues Anti-Scalping Guidelines to Retailers for Radeon RX 6000 and Ryzen 5000 Launches

AMD in a letter to its retail partners issued guidelines to prevent scalping of the kind that affected the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30-series "Ampere" launch. The letter, leaked to the web by RedGamingTech, calls for measures such as real-time bot detection, complex CAPTCHA implementations (such as math, pictures, etc), a queue-based reservation system; manual processing of online orders, minimizing B2B re-selling to ensure sales to private individuals (end-users), and dynamic inventory. The Ryzen 5000 "Zen 3" series desktop processors will start being available from November 5, while AMD will detail Radeon RX 6000 RDNA2 availability in its October 28 public presentation dedicated to the graphics card series.
Sources: RedGamingTech (YouTube), via VideoCardz
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57 Comments on AMD Issues Anti-Scalping Guidelines to Retailers for Radeon RX 6000 and Ryzen 5000 Launches

#51
CronXPX
It's not oblige anyone to anything. They might as well have asked drug dealers not to sell drugs to children because it’s "bad". The result will be the same.
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#52
Turmania
Before trying to paint a whiter than white picture, can you please make ryzen 3 3300x processors available to community, as it has been out of reach for many months! Please, produce and make it available on the market l, then worry about scalpers...
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#53
pal
if the bot are buying cpus or gpus, cant a retailer see that 50cpu goes to the same address?! for fuxk sake
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#54
John Naylor
hatI think this means that availability will be low at launch. Or we're being led to make that inference with a "leak"...
That's already been announced by AMD soi no inference needed.
ratirtWonders? Why is it so hard for you to understand that companies don't want to lose the upper hand when they have it. NV release earlier to acquire attention taking off the AMD launch and show off the product just before AMD's launch with failed supply. Now AMD is hitting it back with release with meaningful supply protecting the product from scalps and those alike.
Is it a wonder or is it just basic marketing and assurance of a place in the market and product sales?
Ya mean like nVidia did with the 780 Ti ? They sat and waited and let AMD invest millions, meanwhile had the 780 Ti sitting on a shelf because the origonal 770 design was used for the 780. After weeks of build up on how the new 290X was going to claim the crown, a week before release, nvidia said ... oh btw, we gonne release this next week and the entire media world tripped all over themselves rushing out new "NEVERMIND headlines. As it turned out the 290x failed to topple not only the 780 Ti but the old 780 now sat in 2nd place above the 290X and 290. There's no good guys here.... this is not a battle of good and evil but a PR battle .... in the boardroom, it's not about what we con do for our customers at our expense .... but what can we make people believe ? Corporations act their own self interest ... its required by law,. Meanigful supply ? .... AMD has already stated that there will be limited supply.
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#55
mtcn77
palif the bot are buying cpus or gpus, cant a retailer see that 50cpu goes to the same address?! for fuxk sake
I think an ai can forge an address.
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#56
TheoneandonlyMrK
mtcn77I think an ai can forge an address.
I'm starting to think ai's have sussed whole persona's :p:D
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#57
mtcn77
theoneandonlymrkI'm starting to think ai's have sussed whole persona's :p:D
You know the stock trade bots have their own transactional traces, right? It is very dangerous stuff. You can tell when it is iq stuff, but eq! Humans are pretty slow in deducing contextual meaning. I wouldn't think whole essays can be distinguished from their real academic literature originals.
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