Preventing them from selling their pre-orders.
The Nvidia 3080 officially went on sale this week and almost immediately went out of stock as bots grabbed up every copy they could to flip on Ebay. This time around people aren’t taking so kindly to the efforts of scumbag scalpers and are fighting the bots with bots of their own.
If you take a look at Ebay’s listing prices for the 3080 you’ll find that they are expensive. Extremely expensive, and in the range of thousands to tens of thousands of dollars. Surely nobody is thinking of paying those fees for a graphics card, right? Right. None of the alleged bidders of these graphics cards have any intention of paying out on their bids.
The goal here is twofold; foremost to prevent anyone from successfully making a sale and taking advantage of desperate customers by driving prices so high that nobody in their right mind would pay for them. By killing the buyer’s market we get to the secondary point which is to further punish the scalpers by preventing sales until the graphics card is in more ample supply, which means scalpers won’t be able to charge such a premium.
Nvidia for their part has promised to comb over orders to weed out the bots. Whether they are being sincere is up for interpretation.
Source: Overclock3d
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