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
If only looking at the brand revenue and not care if the products get abused and/or raped by mining or scaping, good for the number in short term, maybe over some years, but ultimately this can hurt a goal like disrupting the gamingmarket fundamentaly in the long term and the recognition of the brand. Further in my opinion some much needed evolution in gaming related software is slowed down if the new hardware can´t reach enough audience because the hardware is not in gamerhands and the gamesoftware industry won´t go all-in because of the too small userbase.
Also i think the Xbox Series S includes RT just because the industry needs RT everywhere as a new base to move faster forward. DX12 Ultimate is here and the userbase needs to be as big as possible at best to sub 200$ so that the work invested to implement RT in games gets the new standard and ulimately in some years we need to see games without baking and faking, making them more accurate by default and lower the hurdles for creativity and iteration to build new games. So the f*ckin scalpers slow down evolution and mining speeds up climatewarming and all related sh*t. Thank you for nothing.
IMO buy from a scalper or cry and wait