Monday, November 9th 2020
Scalping Locust Swarm Takes Out Ryzen 5000 Inventory, Same Fate Awaits Radeon RX 6000
Scalping bots and overpriced re-sales are the new reality of PC hardware launches. The same swarm that wiped out launch inventories of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards, now hit AMD Ryzen 5000 series "Zen 3" processor inventories across the US, reports HotHardware. Bots scalped out Ryzen 5000 series inventories using sophisticated scalping services such as Bounce Alerts, and scalpers quickly put their freshly acquired inventory to re-sale on eBay at exorbitant prices, with the likes of an $800 Ryzen 9 5950X being re-sold at over 50% premiums.
ASUS has warned that a similar fate awaits the first inventories of the Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 graphics cards, given that AMD has marketed these next-gen GPUs to offer performance rivaling those of the GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 2080 Ti (in effect RTX 3070), respectively. In the weeks leading up to the Ryzen 5000 market release, AMD issued anti-scalping guidelines to its retail partners, to ensure fair sales of hardware to genuine buyers, and to prevent scalping bots. We now know these guidelines were futile.
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HotHardware
ASUS has warned that a similar fate awaits the first inventories of the Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 graphics cards, given that AMD has marketed these next-gen GPUs to offer performance rivaling those of the GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 2080 Ti (in effect RTX 3070), respectively. In the weeks leading up to the Ryzen 5000 market release, AMD issued anti-scalping guidelines to its retail partners, to ensure fair sales of hardware to genuine buyers, and to prevent scalping bots. We now know these guidelines were futile.
104 Comments on Scalping Locust Swarm Takes Out Ryzen 5000 Inventory, Same Fate Awaits Radeon RX 6000
Saw it going on that very morning and said as much but as for me, not gonna worry about it because I've got what I need now and I'm OK.
Point:
As long as people are stupid enough the feed the swarm it will persist.
Don't by these scalped chips and there will be nothing for the swarm to feed upon.
You feed 'em, they'll be back for more - Guaranteed.
Here, RTX 3080 is ranging from USD 900~1300. Zotac Trinity is the lowest for USD 910, Asus Strix is the most expensive for USD 1340.
RTX 3070 USD 700~800
The RTX 3090 is even crazier, USD 1900 at the lowest, and almost USD 2500 for Asus Strix.
All Ryzen 5000 series are also 100-150 higher than MSRP.
Some countries are paradise for PC enthusiast, while some are just hell.
I hope AMD cards will be delivered in a faster manner than 4 months delay.
What can I say, enjoy your 2000$ 3080s and 5950Xs or whatever, morons.
Zen 3 processors weren't available from the local store in my own city because the stock shipments didn't arrive until after the weekend.
2. NVIDIA has shipments before the 25th of January, they're coming in every week.
Its not like its a life and death situation to get an rtx3000 or a ryzen5000, now.
If they would do that with the covid-19 vaccine, well, then whole NATO army should jump on them.
But computer parts, let them scalp as much as they want. They have to move them reasonably fast, as next gen is just around the corner.
I was recently looking after a CPU, and noticed that 2600x dropped to like 140 EUR, VAT, shipping included, and it is still on stock in many places.
That is really good value, even compared to 5600x at MSRP price.
At ebay inflated prices of 4-500 USD, which in EU will reach at least 4-500 EUR, oh boy, they can keep it, for as long as they want.
That being said in my country I still see them in stock. Maybe those bots can only work with major us retailers :D
I took their comment to mean "nothing is coming in UNTIL the 25th of January", when the reality is that cards are in fact coming in every week. It might be that their order is expected in January, but the wording wasn't clear to state it was just for their order.
If the demand wasn't as high, there would be stock.
Still don't understand what significance the 25th of January holds. On that date, does Nvidia think there suddenly will be general availability outpacing the demand? I just don't see what is 'changing' on that date compared to now. That's where my confusion lies.