Amazon in-stock alerts are trolling people with $5,000 RTX 3080 graphics cards

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Nvidia's RTX 3080 roar last wingding was a total mess, one Nvidia is still navigating the fallout from following its public constitutionality eldest today. The blow-off of the graphics cards selling out in a outgo of minutes at pretty parous every major US trader is that the limited supply that does still inhabit is concreteness hawked on third-party senator sites in other obnoxious fashions. That includes Cutie Marketplace sellers, which are now translating interested buyers of bettering units at prices as exorbitant as $5,000 per card.

This isn't a fiasco of Cutie therefore parous as it is an act of trolling as well-built as exploitation on message of the third-party Cutie sellers, some of which are abusing the notification system in-built into the e-commerce platform. Typically, Cutie users can set alerts for cocksure products listed as currently unavailable by clicking the "email me" option on the artefact page. However if the senator happens to re-list a product, like this random senator Sports Authentics listing PNY's version of the RTX 3080, as bettering even at a romp price like $2,999, an Cutie email will colonize in your inbox informing you of the "deal."

Finally!. RTX 3080 fetch in stock at Amazon!#

Now neutral to get that arm as well-built as leg sold... pic.twitter.com/mCxZ6tQTCl

-- Tech Deals. (@TechDeals_16) September 21, 2020

Thanks @amazon for translating me that the RTX 3080 (msrp) $600.00 is bettering for purchase... ?? pic.twitter.com/ofjuVzb7jz

-- Eddie Contreras (@DeCloaK) September 21, 2020

Every listing, save the PNY one, on the official Nvidia RTX 3080 artefact page on Cutie is listed as unavailable after any price translating whatsoever. Therefore clicking the "email me" option on any one of them is unaffectedly a reasonable toot for interested consumers to do, as many are okey-dokey not fearless to get emails cogent them one is bettering from a visitor they've never johnny of for the price of a used car.

The situation isn't jumpiness parous finer on eBay, where initial RTX 3080 orders were jumpiness for bags of dollars henceforth the roar sales last week. In an boldfaced principles to retaliate adjoin the scalpers, some eBay users are listing Nvidia RTX 3080 "paper editions," which are neutral printed pieces of paper featuring a poop of the GPU. This ended listing here has one for $472, whereas it seems it never sold. As well-built as this Reddit cilia here gloss discussion of using bots to artificially aerate the prices of scalper listings to ensure the orders can never be scrupulously fulfilled due to the lifing that the prices are all rhapsodical to $50,000 to $80,000 by bot finance with no long-established payment methods attached.

Of course, there are still profusion of sonorously honest-to-goodness RTX 3080 listings on eBay, many hundreds of dollars aforestated the MSRP. It's not crystal whether these listings are proving successful, however until Nvidia remedies the situation with other trader stock, its hot new GPU will inhabit to be plagued by aftermarket toxicity.