Now Nvidia's monster GeForce RTX 3090 cards snaffled up by bots, scalpers – if only there had been a warning
(2020/09/24)
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Geeks eager to nab Nvidia’s [1]GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards were left disappointed after all the stock on the tech giant's online store was snatched up almost instantly when the cards went up for sale on Thursday.
The hardware is also sold out from major retailers, such as Newegg and Best Buy. Websites struggled to process high volumes of order requests, and an influx of bots quickly sucked supplies dry, it appears. Punters waiting to pay for their orders at the checkout stage often had their items automatically removed from their virtual carts before being notified that the item had gone out of stock.
hahahaha [2]@Newegg you guys are SOOOOO funny! Thanks for sending me this email just after I spent hours trying to get an [3]#RTX3090 only to have it removed from my cart EVERY TIME. [4]pic.twitter.com/18ytw4WOej — Jeffrey (@muchjeff) [5]September 24, 2020
If you’re reading this and feeling the unshakable sense of déjà vu, you’re not wrong. The exact same scenario occurred when Nvidia released its [6]GeForce RTX 3080s last week.
Many took to Twitter to vent their frustrations while scumbag scalpers resold the cutting-edge GPU on places like [7]eBay for way more than the retail price of $1,499. Some users have placed totally above board [8]bids exceeding $20,000 for one card alone. We've also heard of netizens, fed up with the scalping, creating eBay accounts to place super-high bids they have no intention of paying for and that no one else will outbid, thus blocking the sales.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 debut derailed by website glitches, bots, lack of supply [9]READ MORE
After the kerfuffle of the RTX 3080 launch, the graphics chip giant admitted its online shop had been inundated with “malicious bots and resellers,” as well as eager legit customers, and promised to better defend against malicious buyers.
"The demand for the GeForce RTX 3080 was truly unprecedented. We and our partners underestimated it," Nvidia [10]said on Monday, just days before the 3090 release. "Over 50 major global retailers had inventory on the day of launch. Our retail partners reported record traffic to their sites, in many cases exceeding Black Friday. This caused crashes, delays and other issues for their customers. We knew the GeForce RTX 3080 would be popular, but none of us expected that much traffic on the first day.
"As with many other etailers, the Nvidia Store was also overrun with malicious bots and resellers. To combat this challenge we have made the following changes: we moved our Nvidia Store to a dedicated environment, with increased capacity and more bot protection.
“We updated the code to be more efficient on the server load. We integrated CAPTCHA to the checkout flow to help offset the use of bots. We implemented additional security protections to the store APIs. And more efforts are underway.”
Fat lot of good that did. And Nvidia didn't even expect Thursday’s launch to go smoothly: it preemptively apologized to folks the day before.
“Since we built GeForce RTX 3090 for a unique group of users, like the Titan RTX before it, we want to apologise upfront that this will be in limited supply on launch day. We know this is frustrating, and we’re working with our partners to increase the supply in the weeks to come,” it [11]confessed .
Nvidia declined to comment further. ®
Get our [12]Tech Resources
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/02/new_nvidia_rtx_30/
[2] https://twitter.com/Newegg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[3] https://twitter.com/hashtag/RTX3090?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[4] https://t.co/18ytw4WOej
[5] https://twitter.com/muchjeff/status/1309158032799080451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/18/nvidia_geforce_rtx_debut_derailed/
[7] https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=nvidia+geforce+RTX+3090&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=nvidia+3090
[8] https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nvidia-GeForce-RTX-3090-24GB-Founders-Edition-CONFIRMED-ORDER-Ships-ASAP/274507201778?hash=item3fe9e77cf2:g:wQ4AAOSwUdRfbKVU
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/18/nvidia_geforce_rtx_debut_derailed/
[10] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-3080-qa/
[11] https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/news/rtx-3090-out-september-24/?ncid=afm-chs-44270&ranMID=44270&ranEAID=TnL5HPStwNw&ranSiteID=TnL5HPStwNw-R3ZWAGaDdggngaAg1VuHrw
[12] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
The hardware is also sold out from major retailers, such as Newegg and Best Buy. Websites struggled to process high volumes of order requests, and an influx of bots quickly sucked supplies dry, it appears. Punters waiting to pay for their orders at the checkout stage often had their items automatically removed from their virtual carts before being notified that the item had gone out of stock.
hahahaha [2]@Newegg you guys are SOOOOO funny! Thanks for sending me this email just after I spent hours trying to get an [3]#RTX3090 only to have it removed from my cart EVERY TIME. [4]pic.twitter.com/18ytw4WOej — Jeffrey (@muchjeff) [5]September 24, 2020
If you’re reading this and feeling the unshakable sense of déjà vu, you’re not wrong. The exact same scenario occurred when Nvidia released its [6]GeForce RTX 3080s last week.
Many took to Twitter to vent their frustrations while scumbag scalpers resold the cutting-edge GPU on places like [7]eBay for way more than the retail price of $1,499. Some users have placed totally above board [8]bids exceeding $20,000 for one card alone. We've also heard of netizens, fed up with the scalping, creating eBay accounts to place super-high bids they have no intention of paying for and that no one else will outbid, thus blocking the sales.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 debut derailed by website glitches, bots, lack of supply [9]READ MORE
After the kerfuffle of the RTX 3080 launch, the graphics chip giant admitted its online shop had been inundated with “malicious bots and resellers,” as well as eager legit customers, and promised to better defend against malicious buyers.
"The demand for the GeForce RTX 3080 was truly unprecedented. We and our partners underestimated it," Nvidia [10]said on Monday, just days before the 3090 release. "Over 50 major global retailers had inventory on the day of launch. Our retail partners reported record traffic to their sites, in many cases exceeding Black Friday. This caused crashes, delays and other issues for their customers. We knew the GeForce RTX 3080 would be popular, but none of us expected that much traffic on the first day.
"As with many other etailers, the Nvidia Store was also overrun with malicious bots and resellers. To combat this challenge we have made the following changes: we moved our Nvidia Store to a dedicated environment, with increased capacity and more bot protection.
“We updated the code to be more efficient on the server load. We integrated CAPTCHA to the checkout flow to help offset the use of bots. We implemented additional security protections to the store APIs. And more efforts are underway.”
Fat lot of good that did. And Nvidia didn't even expect Thursday’s launch to go smoothly: it preemptively apologized to folks the day before.
“Since we built GeForce RTX 3090 for a unique group of users, like the Titan RTX before it, we want to apologise upfront that this will be in limited supply on launch day. We know this is frustrating, and we’re working with our partners to increase the supply in the weeks to come,” it [11]confessed .
Nvidia declined to comment further. ®
Get our [12]Tech Resources
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/02/new_nvidia_rtx_30/
[2] https://twitter.com/Newegg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[3] https://twitter.com/hashtag/RTX3090?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[4] https://t.co/18ytw4WOej
[5] https://twitter.com/muchjeff/status/1309158032799080451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/18/nvidia_geforce_rtx_debut_derailed/
[7] https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=nvidia+geforce+RTX+3090&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=nvidia+3090
[8] https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nvidia-GeForce-RTX-3090-24GB-Founders-Edition-CONFIRMED-ORDER-Ships-ASAP/274507201778?hash=item3fe9e77cf2:g:wQ4AAOSwUdRfbKVU
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/18/nvidia_geforce_rtx_debut_derailed/
[10] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-3080-qa/
[11] https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/news/rtx-3090-out-september-24/?ncid=afm-chs-44270&ranMID=44270&ranEAID=TnL5HPStwNw&ranSiteID=TnL5HPStwNw-R3ZWAGaDdggngaAg1VuHrw
[12] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: If it helps...
Symon
Why don't Nvidia sell the things on the eBays?
Re: If it helps...
Richard Boyce
Maybe because the bot users could simply place fake bids to block any auctions. In addition, the retailers would have to be denied stock, at least at first. They would not be happy.
Re: If it helps...
Symon
God, you're one of those negative people I come across every day. Always problems, never answers. Next time, think through the solutions to your own points yourself, but this time, just this once mind, I'll help you.
1) Persuade eBay to run a Dutch auction. Pay up as soon as you 'win', or the auction continues.
2) The retailers must sell their stock on the eBays also, else 'No soup for you'.
This isn't rocket surgery. Oh, BTW --->
;-)
Why not wait until you can satisfy demand? Like the phone industry...
RM Myers
I assume you were being sarcastic. This has been a hellacious year to buy tech products, including CPU's, GPU's, laptops, cams, etc. I'm guessing the new consoles and AMD's Zen3 CPU's and "Big Navi" GPU's will continue the trend.
Don't Buy Them Until The New Year
NoneSuch
Wait til Jan / Feb. Will be lots of stock then and no one will be buying as everyone will have splurged for Christmas. Best time to buy.
Anyone buying a card second hand from a scalper is an idiot and a contributor to the problem. Let them watch their cards depreciate on the shelf.
If it helps...
It must be galling to the folks at NVidia that freetards are ff-ing their website to grab a $600 graphics card to sell for $3,000 on Ebay.
Why not wait until you can satisfy demand? Like the phone industry...