NVIDIA RTX 4090 Scalped Out of Stock, Company Tests "Verified Priority Access" Buying Program

[btarunr]

It's barely been a day, and the $1600-2000 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 "Ada" graphics card is already out of stock in leading US retailers such as Newegg. Either the inventory was barely large enough to last a day; or the scourge of scalping is back to haunt graphics card buyers. NVIDIA is testing a new way of retail for its GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition graphics cards, which it calls "Verified Priority Access." From the looks of it, this is copied from EVGA ELITE Priority Access program; where you reserve a graphics card purchase regardless of it being in stock, and when the reseller is ready with some stock, you're given a position in a queue, with a limited time window in which to complete your purchase and place the order.

NVIDIA Verified Priority Access (VPA) program is only available in a handful markets, and through participating retailers. These include Best Buy (United States), Scan (United Kingdom), NBB (Germany & Netherlands), and LDLC (France, Italy, and Spain). One big catch with VPA is that you should already be owning a GeForce GTX 10-series, GTX 16-series, RTX 20-series or RTX 30-series graphics card; and be signed in with GeForce Experience. When your position in the purchase queue advances or opens up for you to make the purchase, you will be notified through a pop-up in GeForce Experience, from where you'll be taken to a page by the participating online retailer to buy your card.



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[Dimitriman]

Orly?

PS: "Bold strategy by the scalers, let's see if it pays off"

 

[Flanker]

lmao have fun with that

 

[CyberCT]

just checked ebay .... yup, various 4090s on sale, all for well over $2,000.

Guess that settles it then ... no 4090 for me. 50% resolution scaling in Assetto Corsa with rain and light effects in VR with the REverb G2 with the 3080ti for a while

 

[Chaitanya]

just checked ebay .... yup, various 4090s on sale, all for well over $2,000.

Guess that settles it then ... no 4090 for me. 50% resolution scaling in Assetto Corsa with rain and light effects in VR with the REverb G2 with the 3080ti for a while

Given sad state of GPU sales(thanks to everything wrong with the world economy) wont be long before these scalpers lose interest and money with 4090s.

 

[Zareek]

Given sad state of GPU sales(thanks to everything wrong with the world economy) wont be long before these scalpers lose interest and money with 4090s.

I'll be shocked if they really make much over retail. Then again, I'm still amazed that people pay over a $1,000 for video cards. How things have changed since I started with PCs.

 

[Chaitanya]

I'll be shocked if they really make much over retail. Then again, I'm still amazed that people pay over a $1,000 for video cards. How things have changed since I started with PCs.

There seems to be a genuine increase in performance for compute tasks with this GPU but its a small niche class of users who need that level of performance. I guess there are many ways for a fool part ways with money and world has no shortage of such fools.

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[igralec84]

Well i did have luck getting a 3080Ti and 3060 from the EVGA queue, albeit after a 4 and 6 month wait, both in the space of 2 days. Might not help EU customers if the store doesn't send to their country though.

 

[P4-630]

Only these or still in stock here:

 

[Dirt Chip]

#trytolooksurprised

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

GeForce Experience required? I'm out.

 

[techie81]

This is likely artificial supply constraints to increase the perception of demand. Cheesy move nVidia.

 

[HaKN !]

People are doing the same in Denmark ,Buying 2k+ USD cards and trying to get 2.2k-2.6k USD for them. its fucking insane

 

[Chaitanya]

This is likely artificial supply constraints to increase the perception of demand. Cheesy move nVidia.

 

[trog100]

i think this is only temporary.. people are just trying it on.. how long it lasts will depend on how future supply meets future demand..

the "scalpers" have nothing to lose.. buy the card bung it on ebay at an inflated price.. if it sells you win if it dosnt send the card back.. the way these things are sold almost invites scalping..

trog

 

[R0H1T]

Yeah this will happen if you release 100 1000 cards worldwide

 

[Kapone33]

I seriously hope AMD's next card is just as fast as this and has a much better street price.

 

[R0H1T]

I seriously hope AMD's next card is just as fast as this and has a much better street price.

It's a direct result of supply of these cards to the market! NVIDIA is clearly inflating prices here.

Yeah remember Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Realme flash sales

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Damn, now I feel some fomo over not grabbing a Gaming Trio varient... Eh life goes on.

 

[Punkenjoy]

In most launch in the last 10 years, cards got sold out on day one. The unusual stuff of the pandemic was that they didn't come back stock and stayed stock soon after.

I didn't wanted to buy one, but I could, and that is the first launch in a while that I could buy one.


Don't plan to buy anything until Dec/Jan Anyway

 

[WhitetailAni]

 

[Kapone33]

It's a direct result of supply of these cards to the market! NVIDIA is clearly inflating prices here.

Yeah remember Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Realme flash sales

It would seem that the Greed has hit a new level for Nvidia. I can see them trying to expand their founders sales to try to take the place of EVGA with direct sales. What would be a truly interesting study case is if EVGA starts selling AMD and Intel GPUs they might be able to do something to curtail the Greed. There used to be a mark for PC Gamers that no individual component should cost more than the current console but Nvidia killed that market.

 

[The Quim Reaper]

Twat scalpers selling to bigger twat buyers...leave them to it.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

Exac

Orly?

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PS: "Bold strategy by the scalers, let's see if it pays off"

Exactly my thoughts.

I hope this will cost them millions.

 

[BrainCruser]

just checked ebay .... yup, various 4090s on sale, all for well over $2,000.

Guess that settles it then ... no 4090 for me. 50% resolution scaling in Assetto Corsa with rain and light effects in VR with the REverb G2 with the 3080ti for a while

Just wait it out for a week or two. The talk is that there are hundreds of thousands of 4090s ready for sale. All the scalpers will lose a heck of a lot of money.
Or wait out the 7800XT and 7900XT in december, you might even get a discount on a 4090.