News Nvidia RTX 4090 cards are reportedly being hoarded for sale to China by unscrupulous scalpers, which could inevitably drive prices up

[plusev]

With how flawed the 12VHPWR connector has proven, who's going to take a chance? Someone would have to be a masochist to gamble with 4090s at this stage, lol. 12v-2x6 connectors will come standard with the super/ti variants, rumored to be coming out soon anyway.


I have no clue if this design was about cost-cutting, but it should've never been given the green light in the first place. Companies need to be held accountable, as there's no way in hell they thoroughly tested these connectors with a decent enough sample size to make an accurate, final assessment. Corsair didn't adopt it; why? They must have known something. Personally, I feel being a beta tester with unproven tech is always worth taking the back seat, and to those who were duped into being guinea pigs, both on the GPU and PSU side, let this be a harsh lesson. You've not only got a paper weight if you have an ATX 3.0 PSU that comes with the native 12VHPWR connector, but you also have a future home insurance claim loading.

 

[Mike042679]

This is crazy China is getting all of our rtx4090 GPU's now. This policy did complete opposite of what it's meant. The Government needs to step in an start arresting these scalpers. They shouldn't be hard to track down. What address are ordering thousands of 4090 shipments off Amazon an Bestbuy website can be tracked. An watch them closely we could do with fewer less scalpers on the street anyways. An these ones are actually committing treason against the United States. With their intentions with this particular scalping endeavor. Time to shut these scalpers down.

 

[bit_user]

What address are ordering thousands of 4090 shipments off Amazon an Bestbuy website can be tracked. An watch them closely we could do with fewer less scalpers on the street anyways.

I'd assume they buy them wholesale, by the palette, before they ever reach retail channels like those.

 

[Mike042679]

Prices of Nvidia RTX 4090 cards have been shooting up lately, and there are photos reportedly showing piles of cards being purchased for sale to China by unscrupulous scalpers and traders.

Nvidia RTX 4090 cards are reportedly being hoarded for sale to China by unscrupulous scalpers, which could inevitably drive prices up : Read more

I'd assume they buy them wholesale, by the palette, before they ever reach retail channels like those.

Yeah maybe some business may put in orders to do that. But attaching a business name to large orders of recenty band CPUs. That can be tracked also. Jay's Computer Repair just ordered 5000 units of just 4090s should be a red flag as well. Specially if a new account. Or an account that never orders like that regularly during normal times.