NVIDIA Accused of Limiting GeForce RTX 30 Series Availability to Inflate Prices

Burticus said:
NEWS ALERT! New highly desired product is in high demand and hard to find in stock! This has never ever happened with any product before, ever!

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No, this hasn't happened before at least not that I can remember. I can't remember another time when a GPU launched but was sold out, literally world wide in a matter of seconds but not only was virtually nobody was able to actually buy one but seemingly thousands of them showed up on Ebay at 100% markups in a matter of hours.

Yes there have been crazy runs on products before. Hell I remember the insanity of Cabbage Patch dolls but it's not the same thing as what happened today. Again, this card sold out, WORLD WIDE in a matter of seconds yet hardly anybody actually bought one.
 
MacLeod said:
No, this hasn't happened before at least not that I can remember. I can't remember another time when a GPU launched but was sold out, literally world wide in a matter of seconds but not only was virtually nobody was able to actually buy one but seemingly thousands of them showed up on Ebay at 100% markups in a matter of hours.

Yes there have been crazy runs on products before. Hell I remember the insanity of Cabbage Patch dolls but it's not the same thing as what happened today. Again, this card sold out, WORLD WIDE in a matter of seconds yet hardly anybody actually bought one.
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It's my understanding that many of the Ebay sellers are simply selling "Pre-orders".
 
MacLeod said:
No, this hasn't happened before at least not that I can remember. I can't remember another time when a GPU launched but was sold out, literally world wide in a matter of seconds but not only was virtually nobody was able to actually buy one but seemingly thousands of them showed up on Ebay at 100% markups in a matter of hours.

Yes there have been crazy runs on products before. Hell I remember the insanity of Cabbage Patch dolls but it's not the same thing as what happened today. Again, this card sold out, WORLD WIDE in a matter of seconds yet hardly anybody actually bought one.
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Didn't this exact same thing happen with the 2080ti launch? And like many other paper launches from both camps?

Auer said:
It's my understanding that many of the Ebay sellers are simply selling "Pre-orders".
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I don't doubt that at all. Wouldn't be the first time stuff is being sold on Ebay but hasn't really been purchased yet by anyone.
 
Do I think nVidia is intentionally holding back a bunch of chips/cards and forcing AIBs to limit the number they put out? No.

Do I think nVidia rushed the launch well ahead of having any sort of real stock? You bet your *** I do.

Whether the stock problems are due to yield issues or simply because nVidia wanted to make sure they launched before AMD I couldn't tell you. I suspect the reason is a combination of the two, though.
 
Niner51 said:
Interesting read here. https://www.pcmag.com/news/how-a-bo...x-3080-units-before-consumers-could-grab-them
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I lol'd.

"PCMag spoke to an admin of Bounce Alerts, who confirmed the group offered an automated bot to help members purchase the RTX 3080 units on launch day. For $75 a month, members get access to bots and other information to help them quickly buy retail items from companies and resell them. "

“Our job at Bounce Alerts was to ensure our consumers were able to purchase the product for their needs,” the admin said. "
 
Auer said:
I lol'd.

"PCMag spoke to an admin of Bounce Alerts, who confirmed the group offered an automated bot to help members purchase the RTX 3080 units on launch day. For $75 a month, members get access to bots and other information to help them quickly buy retail items from companies and resell them. "

“Our job at Bounce Alerts was to ensure our consumers were able to purchase the product for their needs,” the admin said. "
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I thought the same thing. Basically saying "as long as they got what they wanted we don't care"
 
So... Sony.

A few days out, a story leaks about production being lower than expected on PS5

Two days later, Sony quietly refutes the story

Two days later - the big PS5 reveal, with preorders “tomorrow”

Then, “accidentally” every vendor starts preorders hours early

Preorders sell out in minutes.

Tell me which part of this was not 100% planned and intentional.
 
Burticus said:
NEWS ALERT! New highly desired product is in high demand and hard to find in stock! This has never ever happened with any product before, ever!
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Because it didn't happen before. As far as I can remember the only obstacle to buying a newly released HW component was whether you had the money for it. First time this was a thing was with Zen2. This is definitely not normal, that they launch with so small stock that it sells out in a minute.
 
Brian_B said:
So... Sony.

A few days out, a story leaks about production being lower than expected on PS5

Two days later, Sony quietly refutes the story

Two days later - the big PS5 reveal, with preorders “tomorrow”

Then, “accidentally” every vendor starts preorders hours early

Preorders sell out in minutes.

Tell me which part of this was not 100% planned and intentional.
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The part where Walmart was the sole retailer who jumped the gun, making every other retailer forced to follow suit in fear of missing out on the hype train money.
 
Armenius said:
The part where Walmart was the sole retailer who jumped the gun, making every other retailer forced to follow suit in fear of missing out on the hype train money.
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I have no evidence, but don't believe the largest brick and mortar retailer in the US just happened to willing break a sales embargo so very brazenly ("Nah, that’s not like us. Go on, preorder it NOW! ") without at least a nod and a wink from someone...

After all, if you wanted to kick open the floodgates, wouldn't you start by unleashing the biggest gorilla in the room?

(ok, excuse my mixed metaphors there)
 
Brian_B said:
I have no evidence, but don't believe the largest brick and mortar retailer in the US just happened to willing break a sales embargo so very brazenly ("Nah, that’s not like us. Go on, preorder it NOW! ") without at least a nod and a wink from someone...

After all, if you wanted to kick open the floodgates, wouldn't you start by unleashing the biggest gorilla in the room?

(ok, excuse my mixed metaphors there)
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I could believe it based on the volume that Walmart moves. Sony would not want to lose the largest retailer in North America.
 
MadMummy76 said:
Because it didn't happen before. As far as I can remember the only obstacle to buying a newly released HW component was whether you had the money for it. First time this was a thing was with Zen2. This is definitely not normal, that they launch with so small stock that it sells out in a minute.
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Close enough?
www.extremetech.com

Nvidia's GTX 1080 and 1070 are in short supply, experiencing price spikes - ExtremeTech

Nvidia's GTX 1080 and 1070 launched to much fanfare over the past six weeks, but availability is currently extremely limited and prices are running well above Nvidia's own recommendations.
www.extremetech.com www.extremetech.com
 
MadMummy76 said:
They claimed they monitored for bots and and all actual sales were "human".

But if it's true that supply was same as with previous launches just resellers bought them up, then that's still something new and not business as usual.

Personally, I'm more mad at the people who buy from vultures, than the vultures themselves.
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Amen, and agreed.
 
Burticus said:
Didn't this exact same thing happen with the 2080ti launch? And like many other paper launches from both camps?
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No. The entire worldwide stock of a new video card being sold out in a matter of seconds by bots has never happened before. And you can't really compare a $700 card which is high end but still kinda mainstream to low stock of a boutique $1500 card that maybe 1% of GPU owners buy.

Auer said:
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Steve and his long hair can suck it. Dude basically calling the majority of his audience stupid for caring about this GPU launch and getting mad when we get the rug pulled out from under us. That would be like ESPN telling their audience that they're stupid for caring about football season and getting mad if it was canceled. "Consumerism is bad. You shouldn't buy this card unless you need it. You shouldn't buy a card just because you want it and it would be fun". F! U! If I didn't think cool new tech was fun and want to buy it just to have more fun, I probably wouldn't care about and support a YouTube channel devoted to cool new tech.

Even more rich coming from the guy that wants you to give free money to his Patreon and buy his t-shirts. "Consumerism is bad but check out the gamers nexus store to buy these cool mod mats". Yeah, FU!
 
MacLeod said:
Even more rich coming from the guy that wants you to give free money to his Patreon and buy his t-shirts. "Consumerism is bad but check out the gamers nexus store to buy these cool mod mats". Yeah, FU!
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I was like WTF when tech jesus started to rant about how you shouldn't care about not getting a card, and if you do you're stupid. He literally only exists because people do care. But he doesn't want landfills full of 2080ti -s! Oh, wait they go to the second hand market where they compete with the 3060ti and 3070.

He recently started down the ugly path of talking down to his audience. Instead of talking at them.
 
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