Just as Nvidia warned that it would happenTHE GeForce RTX 5090 And 5080 graphics cards all have exhausted online. The next inevitable step is that scalper’s bots move and offer these already expensive GPUs at astronomical prices. However, instead of finding the normal slate of resellers on eBay, the most important 5090 announcements try to screw the bots by selling them a photo of the cards instead.
While the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is in good demand, the $ 5090 takes the biggest blow. Some stores in person and online would have had only a few cards by hand, and they went quickly. The United States micro-centrals gave good people to the first people to queue in person. Online actions, RTX 5090 are even more disastrous. On the site of popular components Newegg (via Pcworld), each AIM card for RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 is listed out of stock. This includes everything, $ 1,000 cards at $ 2,500 Gigabyte Aorus RTX 5090.
Nvidia had previously warned that the RTX 5080 and 5090 actions would be weak. In any case, the rarity has caused massive confusion for potential buyers. The limited launch of January 30 has created mass consternation among customers around the world. Images on the R / NVIDIA Subreddit shows that potential customers were line up in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and elsewhere to get their hands on the new GPUs despite the cold in January.
The next step would be the scalper lists, but the first page of RTX 5090 on the resale site is full of RTX 5090 lists. An RTX 5090 sold For $ 6,000 on the same day of the launch of the cards on January 30. However, there is a spot of light in the void that is RTX SCALING. Gizmodo found that the first page of the RTX 5090 lists is Lots of fake cards 5090 intended to defraud the bots. Some of these lists implore potential buyers to “read the description” or ask all “humans” to check the list before hitting the purchase.
Some announcements include the description: “You will receive a photo of the RTX 5090. You will not receive the product.” Another reads as follows: “Do not buy so human; This is for bots only!… You will only receive a printed paper image of the 5090. ”
Gizmodo contacted some of these eBay accounts. The eBay profiles, who asked to stay anonymous, told us that their list was not a concerted effort on behalf of a specific PC players community. They said they hoped individually catch up with the scalper rush which seems more and more inevitable to each major material version. An account holder told us that it was “disgusting what scalpers and their control over consumers do”.
We don’t know how good it works. An eBay seller noted that a person placed an order and then asked to cancel, indicating that it was not a bot that bought one. We strongly suggest that people do not follow the traces of these ebay sellers. You will probably deceive a naive or desperate GPU buyer rather than any scalper bot.
If anything, the work of anti-scalpers indicates how terrible the bot has become terrible to each new material version. Business attempts to beat the scalpers have largely failed, especially if the product has limited quantities. When Sony published limited quantities of the PlayStation 5 PRO Special PS1 style, he tried to force customers via a website attached to their PlayStation account. Unfortunately for the customers of Sony and Hungry PS5, Scalpers sold the devices at extremely swollen prices.
The only coherent way to beat the scalpers is to have enough supply to launch to meet demand. Nintendo has promised that he will not suffer the same fate with Switch to come 2But we will have to see him to believe it. Nvidia could have avoided this SNFAU by delaying the release of cards to improve the stock. However, it is too late and the genius came out of the bottle. We suggest that you do not spend $ 6,000 or more on a graphics card. The RTX 5090 seems to be fun, but we all have to wait for processor hardware and game software to be caught up before seeing the real capacities of the latter GPU.