Gamers left high and dry as scalper bot clears entire Nvidia RTX 5090, RTX 5080 FE stock in Europe

[Redaktion]

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 gaming GPUs appear to be suffering from one of the most supply-limited launches in recent memory. Unsurprisingly, scalpers are already doing their thing, inevitably making things even worse for gamers interested in the cards.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Gamers-left-high-and-dry-as-scalper-bot-clears-entire-Nvidia-RTX-5090-RTX-5080-FE-stock-in-Europe.955104.0.html

[RobertJasiek]

"inexcusably limited supply, overwhelming demand"

Without knowing the amount of the limited supply, one cannot know whether the demand has been overwhelming or just as small as the supply. Therefore, simply speaking of "overwhelming demand" is propaganda in the interest of Nvidia, OEMs, distributors and retailers, and is against the interest of us endconsumers.

NBC, even if you are not bribed by the manufacturers, why do you hurt us NBC readers?

[Swizzy]

Loaded article

[DaveOh]

"inexcusably limited supply, overwhelming demand"

Without knowing the amount of the limited supply, one cannot know whether the demand has been overwhelming or just as small as the supply. Therefore, simply speaking of "overwhelming demand" is propaganda in the interest of Nvidia, OEMs, distributors and retailers, and is against the interest of us endconsumers.

NBC, even if you are not bribed by the manufacturers, why do you hurt us NBC readers?

What the hell are you talking about? The card has sold out everywhere. That is literally the definition of a demand overwhelming the supply.

[muprdupsa]

What the hell are you talking about? The card has sold out everywhere. That is literally the definition of a demand overwhelming the supply.
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folks we have some of the finest retarded shills here at nvidia

[Andrew Middleton]

I see these are already appearing on Ebay at vastly inflated prices.

[Travis O.]

so ridiculous.. first off: just use last years model or whatever you have. its not like seeing 1 million more polygons move 100 times faster (or whatever the specs are) is gonna be life changing.. and there wouldn't be scalpers if people wouldn't pay there ridiculous prices.. but no.. like a rich child they just gotta have it.. so dumb if you ask me..

[ErikE]

so ridiculous.. first off: just use last years model or whatever you have. its not like seeing 1 million more polygons move 100 times faster (or whatever the specs are) is gonna be life changing.. and there wouldn't be scalpers if people wouldn't pay there ridiculous prices.. but no.. like a rich child they just gotta have it.. so dumb if you ask me..

Last year's 4090 is more expensive than the 5090...

[Webhelp]

The entire EU stock was scalped? Do you mean all 5 GPUs?

[RobertJasiek]

The card has sold out everywhere.

You mean the 1 alibi card per country.

[Mr Slicks]

The entire EU stock was scalped? Do you mean all 5 GPUs?

This.

Contrived scarcity.

Shame on Nvidia.

Shame on those dumb (and rich) enough to feed this anti-social Nvidia behaviour.

[Joe Schmoe]

Still playing games on an nvidia card thats almost 10 years old and still works great for me. LOL at the suckers paying a small fortune for a piece of electronics that will be obsolete next week :D

[pbergonzi]

Knowing it is bots, can't they just cancel all the orders?

[Eric]

I waited for years to be able to replace my old 1070ti with something for a reasonable price. I do photogrammetry and dabble with self-hosted AI models...so I really wanted the CUDA cores. I finally gave up on the Nvidia BS and got myself an AMD GPU. So sick of Nvidia.

[MobileJAD]

What I want to know is where do the scalpers get the money to buy up these stupidly expensive video cards to begin with?