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.
Source:
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
Nobody can predict when the backorders will end and 'normal' on-the-shelf availability begins, as more orders will come during that period, shifting that date back. Or, people cancel their backorders and the date shifts forward. It's an estimate, just like every other date the stores will give you. It doesn't mean that on that date suddenly there will be normal stock. It's just a prediction based on their internal conversations with their distributors.
Kek, overpriced re-sales have been a thing with high end hardware launches for long. Now that there have been couple strong releases lately, people are more on the end of getting some quick bucks.
It will settle down for sure, but for the time being it's an annoyance.
Correct, if you want to snag one of those, seems like you have to dive into an advanced google search to find one from a lesser used retailer. Applies to whatever country you're from.
I don't believe neither Nvidia nor AMD
They are collaborating in forming a Cartel
*Not that I'd go as far as saying that word*.
Buy at launch and you get:
- Full MSRP, no discounts or price-matching offers
- Scalping on top of that
- Limited availability and long pre-order delays
- Buggy launch drivers that need some fixes
- Lack of software/games around to take advantage of the newest hardware features
- Version 1.0 of the hardware and vBIOS with plenty of revisions likely needed until the optimal daily-driver variant with no issues turns up.
- Early yields on the manufacturing process, so you're buying the hottest, least-overclockable, lowest-yielding variant of the GPU and VRAM
Buy once the rush has subsided and you get:If the cards are not in stock, you can't order them if you can you are still going to wait for it till all the preorders are complete.Of course it can be pushed back or forward. If that happens you and I will not know about it from NV but from the resellers web page anyway. The plan can change if the producer encounters any issues. The companies do estimates or a forecast what the production line will look like. They take all the problems into account that may appear but sometimes they can't predict something and it's delayed. Just like Cyber Punk 2077 was pushed. Your status is set confirm or shipped but first you need to have a chance to order which means you need stock which now is scheduled for January and it's been that way since 2 months.
By the way, just in case they're reading this:
Anytime you have a limited supply of something some form of something like this will happen.
The retailers could curb it by doing a pre-order and random sort for shipping. Manufacturers could hold off on releasing until they have a greater supply than day1 demand. I do find it strange that consumers are the only ones that really seem to care.
Except they're not, because they're still making money and have no business incentive to change anything, or allow preorders. That's the most frustrating of all. If it impacted their bottom line, they would have done something substantial by now, which clearly they haven't.
Money lending has strict guidelines because if not it ventures into loan sharking which obviously is and should be criminal.
ebay, craigslist and the usual suspect should allow the sale of these items but they should force the sale down to no greater then MSRP whether it be used or new. So, these items should be buy now at or very near MSRP and that is it. Violators should be banned and reported to law enforcement. If arrested their stock should be seized. The stock (when no longer needed for evidence / prosecution) is then sold or auctioned off by the state at no greater then MSRP.
IIRC, at the height of the pandemic some jackholes were trying to stockpile and scalp high grade protective equipment that was in low supply. They were arrested and their goods seized,....and rightfully so,.....
It really shouldn't matter what the product / commodity is the markup for resale should have very strict limits.