NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 on Lockdown at Micro Center as It Is Reportedly Requiring Customers to Provide ID and Sign a No-Export Declaration

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Micro Center has reportedly implemented a new process for customers seeking to purchase NVIDIA’s highly sought-after flagship GPU, the RTX 5090, which includes providing identification and signing a declaration stating they will not export the controlled substance card. This crazy world keeps getting, well, crazier, and now those with the deep pockets to buy the […]

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[igor_kavinski]

As if being a fire hazard wasn't enough...

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Yeah, I was thinking the same.

 

[Grimlakin]

I wonder if that means they have traced some purchases from Microcenter to ending up in an export restricted or on their way to an export restricted location.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I wonder if that means they have traced some purchases from Microcenter to ending up in an export restricted or on their way to an export restricted location.

It really doesn't matter in the end. Just like shadow banking, the vast majority of illegal exports have plenty of routes to get to their destination. Reminds me of how pathetic Western Union compliance was when my company used to be an agent for them. $1000 transactions would become available instantly to the receiver. But they would block pitifully small $125 transactions of poor people sending money home for a medical emergency etc. And the customer would shout at us or make us listen to their tale of woe while all we could do was, collect documents from them and tell them to wait until WU compliance released the transaction.