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How a Bot Bought Dozens of RTX 3080 Units Before Consumers Could Grab Them
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I'm not invested in this whole situation at all and won't be jumping in on the 3000 series for a while, but
you piece
of shit
you piece
of shit
I doubt they'll bother - they get paid either way.
Well yeah if 15-20 of them are going to the same address.
Yeah that is not going to happen as long as the payment clears
Prepare to see the same on the 22nd when xbox launches. Thats why I'm going to go with the payment plan version. If they are running credit or you need to atleast apply for it, I'll have a much better shot.
A bot can hammer it a lot faster than you can. One F5 press by you is probably 20 attempts by the bot
The same companies that use bots to buy limited edition sneakers bought PS5's and 3080's
Prolly going to be cooking for xbox too
Prolly going to be cooking for xbox too
They're working on that
YUUUP. now Best Buy and others being hammered makes total sense now.
I don't think it'll be that serious, I half assed trying to pre order the PS5 and that went through. But maybe it will be different for Xbox since its actually planned lol.
Huh, my mind can't really seem to get how it works. Cause whenever I see a hammered site, it just loads and loads, and you have to wait for it to either fail or load.
I mean, all it takes is a cursory glance around to see that that is the exception to the rule. And that is without a hard set time for those same bots to be unleashed.
Yeah I edited my post since Microsoft has there date prepped and ready.
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Can't do shit. They've been doing this for years. Nike and Adidas have tried region locking, geolocking, unique phone numbers required, unique payment required. But all of those can be spoofed.
The bots can perform at milliseconds. It's the same thing we see in high intensity stock trading systems.
a bot can be scripted to auto put info and refresh the page so much faster than a person can and if you are using the same info you can script it to the same thing on multiple screens at one time.
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Not just milliseconds, but if the scalper had access to a botnets (which you can rent for cheap), they could have hundreds of machines doing it in milliseconds. Regular humans simply can't compete.
they said they are manually verifying each order. presumably they will trickle back in stock.
Are there protections against this that can work?
According to the nvidia store API they have 358 units in stock right now. That's up from 0 earlier so it definitely seems like they're nuking the scalper orders :)
So this is how our world ends? Scalpers unintentionally create Skynet while trying to turn a quick (couple of thousand) buck(s)? And the bot gets tired of the avarice of man and decides it needs to take things into its own virtual hands?
Sounds about right for 2020
You can spoof so much these days that I don't know a quick glance would tell you if an order was a bot or legitimate person.
Kinda? The DDoS caused by the scalpers can't really be mitigated, but limiting item stock, requiring some form of ID for purchases, etc. There are ways, but they'd probably be a lot.mote work than a retailer is willing to do.
Just be patient, folks. In time supply will catch up with demand.
Though this kind of thing is making me tempted to just buy current AMD hardware instead of waiting for Zen 3 and Big Navi. I feel like we'll be well into 2021 before that's readily available.
Though this kind of thing is making me tempted to just buy current AMD hardware instead of waiting for Zen 3 and Big Navi. I feel like we'll be well into 2021 before that's readily available.
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i see.
patience really is the key. we got posters giving scalpers +200% profit on 3080s right now and it's really disappointing.
Y'know, they probably wouldn't do this if people with too much money and no patience would stop buying shit from scalpers/resellers or whatever they want to call themselves in the first place. They'd be forced to sit on that product and either sell at MSRP or take a loss should demand and prices drop. Make Rhettbones out of all of them. That maybe going far as people actually want 3080's instead of people not wanting Wii U's at all.
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that Nvidia and AMD do care to some extent. Not for some altruistic reason but they may lose out on extra income If they're selling services and accessories to people who happen to own their cards they can't sell those things to a few people hoarding all their products just to sell them at vastly marked up prices.
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that Nvidia and AMD do care to some extent. Not for some altruistic reason but they may lose out on extra income If they're selling services and accessories to people who happen to own their cards they can't sell those things to a few people hoarding all their products just to sell them at vastly marked up prices.
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Scalpers are all fucking disgusting and should just fuck off.
God, what a bunch of complete detriments to society
God, what a bunch of complete detriments to society
Yes.
And yet even on Era we have people doing so and others apologizing for them. It's really discouraging.
Been happening for a long time. The companies are fully aware, they dont mind. Great for business.
buy a bot or tough shit. Its fucked up.
bothered me so much I wrote a letter to Elizabeth Warren a few years ago lol
buy a bot or tough shit. Its fucked up.
bothered me so much I wrote a letter to Elizabeth Warren a few years ago lol
Why don't all of these stores have a CAPTCHA check before purchase? Wouldn't that solve all of these issues instantly? Or limit 1 per customer?
Wait really, even people here? No way.
Why can't they put in one of those captcha things where you type in the letters you see? or pick pictures of buses?