News EVGA Reviewing RTX 3080 Orders to Stamp Out Bots

It's good to know now that "order placed" doesn't necessarily mean "you'll get a card."

That puts all of the scalpers who "proved" they have a 3080 coming in by way of confirmation email on the hook now since that doesn't mean jack anymore.
 

secondsystem

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All the retailers should share email addresses and shipping addresses for all their orders. I bet we would catch a lot of scalpers that way too. They could avoid privacy concerns with an NDA or some similar contract.
 

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Good on Evga, their forums are really active and it seems they are listening to their user base. I had one in my cart and even when through Paypal before it failed on return to the site. Bummer.

A good way to catch Scalpers is to see if the same creditcard is being used on multiple orders. Same creditcard, cancel it.