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Scalping Locust Swarm Takes Out Ryzen 5000 Inventory, Same Fate Awaits Radeon RX 6000

Unreal manufacturers do not nip this behavior in the bud right off the bat or try to mitigate it somehow. I now have bad taste in my mouth re replacing what I have to just get the latest and greatest when it's not needed.
Oh well another year Intel or AMD won't see my $ ! Maybe is silver lining to save our $ vs frivolous spending during a pandemic ! Better suited to give $ to charities under our current circumstances !
 
Bottom line, processor manufactures goal is to sell processors. Do you really think they care who buys them as long as they sell what they make. They don't give a hoot on how much you have to pay, it is a matter of supply and demand. The processor manufactures could play a dirty game and flood the market with low priced processors a couple days after the initial run leaving these scalpers stuck with several processors they would have to sell at a loss. It could be done if the manufactures were willing but in the end, they got what they wanted... to sell what they produced at the price they wanted. To them, who buys them does not matter!
 
In long term all cards not getting in proper usage for an somewhat attractive price hurts or at least don´t better the recommendation rate or mass for new potential buyers and the overall recognition of the brand.
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.
 
Vanillaking said:
Bottom line, processor manufactures goal is to sell processors. Do you really think they care who buys them as long as they sell what they make. They don't give a hoot on how much you have to pay, it is a matter of supply and demand. The processor manufactures could play a dirty game and flood the market with low priced processors a couple days after the initial run leaving these scalpers stuck with several processors they would have to sell at a loss. It could be done if the manufactures were willing but in the end, they got what they wanted... to sell what they produced at the price they wanted. To them, who buys them does not matter!
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Completely agree.

IMO buy from a scalper or cry and wait
 
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