Tuesday, December 29th 2020
A Christmas Miracle: 500,000 NVIDIA RTX 3080 Cards Found in Lost Shipping Container
Stock for NVIDIA's latest RTX 30-series graphics cards has been a nightmare for customers across the world, with demand far outstripping supply. This opened up a proverbial can of worms, with scalpers taking to the world wide web, casting their own nets in taking advantage of not only the pandemic (and peoples' refuge in gaming in these uncertain times), but also of said unmet demand. So it has to be nothing short of a Christmas miracle that 500,000 NVIDIA RTX 3080 graphics cards have just been found in an unmarked shipping container in South Korea. The container wasn't registered in the port authority, and was therefore left unopened and unprocessed.
The graphics cards were stored in the container absent of any proper documentation by Samsung, as early as August of this year. Jeff Fisher, vice president of NVIDIA and head of the GeForce division, said in a statement to the company's shareholders that "We've been asking Samsung for this shipment for months. They told us that she had already left the factory, but then they did not present us with any document proving that she had reached her destination". These newfound graphics cards will now be correctly processed and put into the channel.
Geeknetic.es made this as a part of the Spanish Fool's Day, which is December 28th. However, considering the current state of the RTX (and AMD RX) market, this is a nice satirical gotcha which I'll keep on TPU. Let's laugh at our misery instead of wallowing in it.
Source:
Geeknetic.es
The graphics cards were stored in the container absent of any proper documentation by Samsung, as early as August of this year. Jeff Fisher, vice president of NVIDIA and head of the GeForce division, said in a statement to the company's shareholders that "We've been asking Samsung for this shipment for months. They told us that she had already left the factory, but then they did not present us with any document proving that she had reached her destination". These newfound graphics cards will now be correctly processed and put into the channel.
103 Comments on A Christmas Miracle: 500,000 NVIDIA RTX 3080 Cards Found in Lost Shipping Container
Sounds like they are asking for troubles from the shipment.
I want to see these cards sold DIRECT TO CONSUMER to break the scalper's backs.
How this made it to the front page is beyond me, fail at humor and fail at journalism...
To prove that point, that holiday is celebrated in all of Spanish speaking countries on December 28th, not the 29th, you don't see any websites posting April's fools jokes on April 2nd, no one would think that's funny... Any way you cut it, it makes no sense to post this on the front page today...
Not only that, but there are products that are way harder to find now than nvidia 30xx cards, ie. PS5s, Zen 3 processors, AMD 6x00 cards, why continue beating a dead horse when there are far more relevant hot items out there? Evident bias is evident...
A founders fee
On an unrelated note, today I got an email from "a guy who works in the right place" that the MSI Ventus 3080 I ordered for 125% MSRP will probably arrive tomorrow on my doorstep. I just looked on local ebay-like sites and oh my, people are willing to pay quite the premium on these. I should have bought a whole box of them.
Could be very close if not true.
www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/stack-boxes-logistics-container-790501393
.......if this was true.
So I'm born on Spanish Fool's day ... Interesting.
Moooooommmm ! We have to talk.
www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=ryzen+5000
ONE model is available at newegg, for example.