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Nvidia could easily fix all this by allowing customers to preorder cards at MSRP and ship them when they become available. We can blame the scalpers and miners
by victor9000 6y ago
Nvidia could easily fix all this by allowing customers to preorder cards at MSRP and ship them when they become available. We can blame the scalpers and miners all we want, but nvidia is at best complicit.
- tinus_hn 6y agoWhy would scalpers and miners not order years of production ahead?
- gizmo385 6y agoLimit to 1 card per person and requiring a deposit might help address that.
- twic 6y agoRequire customers' Steam usernames and validate that they are true gamers. Oh, you just play pixel art indies? Back of the line.
- Something1234 6y ago> Oh, you just play pixel art indies? Back of the line. At least there's some originality there.
- tinus_hn 6y agoIf this were easy, it would have been solved already. It has not been solved.
- cwhiz 6y agoUnique fingerprinting is completely solved. Retailers just have no motivation because the craze is driving huge traffic to their sites.
- fjkjf67457 6y agohow? i have seen zero implementations of this.
- cwhiz 6y agoWhy would any retailer implement this? Oh please don’t repeatedly come back to my site. As far as how, there are dozens of things companies could do. Require a credit card verification, don’t allow digital credit cards, don’t ship to PO Boxes, don’t allow VOIP phone numbers, require an account with the retailer, do browser/machine fingerprinting, don’t allow purchasing on a VPN, scan the secondhand market for barcodes and ban people, require linking social media accounts and check for matches, don’t allow different billing and shipping addresses, require phone number verification, and on and on and on. If retailers wanted to make sure it was one customer per video card, they could absolutely, trivially, do it. But why would they? That’s a lot of commotion, and things people would probably get upset about. It will lead to less traffic on their site. And, at absolute best, they will get the exact same revenue.
- victor9000 6y agoLimiting one card per mailing address or credit card? You're telling me this is hard?
- tvb12 6y agoI thought it would be cool if you could pre-order one through a local library. Here, at least, getting a library card requires visiting in person, so scalpers would have trouble getting multiple unless the librarian were in on it. I don't think that sort of relationship between manufacturers and libraries exists, though, and I'm not sure it should.
- BinaryIdiot 6y agoScalpers are always a short term thing. None of them ever order supply that will last years, usually 3-6 months at most. If you end up being caught holding the bag with a normal amount of demand, you then break even at best or likely lose a little re-selling them at the prices you paid for. A year from now nvidia will have new GPUs and the 3000 series will be relatively easy to buy.
- rasz 6y agoTry pricing 1070 or 1080. You know, 5 year old GPUs.
- imtringued 6y agoThis is acceptable, but only if you blame people for their failure to not preorder the card in time. Since you decided the allocation mechanism to be based on time rather than money that's the only valid conclusion.