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Nvidia 4080 Scalpers Have to Resort to MSRP Prices as Retailers Refuse Refunds!
Coming clearly in the hope that the Nvidia 4080 graphics card would prove to be an exceptionally popular model with consumers, scalpers leapt in on release day and swiped a lot of the initial stock available. There were, however, two pretty huge problems that they didn’t anticipate. Firstly, consumer interest…
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Nvidia 4080 Scalpers Suffer as Consumers Show Little Interest in the GPU
While the graphics card market has undoubtedly calmed down a lot when compared to this time last year, following the launch of both the Nvidia 4090 and 4080 it was hardly surprising that scalpers were looking to turn a quick buck by buying the GPUs at their retail price and…
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The Steam Deck is Already Plagued by Scalpers!
Following the official announcement of the Steam Deck last week, the demand for the handheld system has been surprisingly high, with even Valve themselves confirming that not only did their website temporarily shut down due to an overwhelming amount of traffic but that shipments for the system have now likely…
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Should Facebook Be More Proactive Against Scalpers?
If you’re currently in the market for a next-gen console or relatively new graphics card from AMD or Nvidia, you’ll undoubtedly be aware that general stock levels among major retailers (both online and physical) are pretty terrible at the moment. Admittedly, they are out there in the wild, but it…
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AMD 6700 XT Listed on Second-Hand Market!
Now, before you start questioning yourself, no, you’re not wrong, and yes, you did read that correctly. For those of you who are blissfully unaware of the issue here though, the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is not set to officially release until March 18th. Following a report via Videocardz,…
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UK Parliament to Discuss Anti-Scalping Law
With the latter quarter of 2020 seeing lots of new technological releases, one of the most significant issues that have affected the industry is that despite it all looking more than a little tasty, in most circumstances, you can’t actually buy any of it. AMD Ryzen 5000’s, Nvidia 30XX’s, PS5’s,…
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Scalpers Made $5.88M Selling AMD Ryzen 5000’s on eBay
It’s been pretty well known that following the launch of various new tech products late last year, actually getting hold of one of them (any one of them) has proven to be more than a little difficult. Of course, this is thanks in no small part due to scalpers looking…
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Game UK Denies Scalpers Just Claimed 2,000 PS5’s
Since their launch in November last year, even despite the fact that we’re now over 2-months on from that, getting hold of a PS5 is still more than a little difficult. If not impossible. With Game UK recently announcing new stock arrival, however, one scalping group has claimed that despite…
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AMD Issues RX 6000 Scalping Advice to Retailers
There’s no need to sugar coat it, as it’s clear to all, but the Nvidia RTX 3000 series launch was and still is a disaster. It’s not so much Nvidia’s fault either, as much as a wider problem with online retail. What started with bots used to buy rare drops…
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Nvidia Confirms Scalpers and Bots Destroyed 3080 Stock Levels
With the GeForce RTX 3080 officially going on general retail sale yesterday, there were a lot of consumers anxiously looking forward to trying out Nvidia’s latest graphics card to see for themselves just how good it really is! As such, while it should have been a very memorable day for…
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Scalper Bots May be Compounding Nintendo Switch Shortages
If you’ve recently been looking to get a Nintendo Switch console, you’ve probably discovered that, in terms of mainstream retailers, they’re currently rarer than hen’s teeth. With even the house of Mario declaring that all current stock levels were out, put simply, the chances of seeing one at a reasonable…
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