News Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 buyers are already camping at Micro Center three days before launch

[Admin]

RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 customers are already camping at Micro Center's brick-and-mortar location in Tustin, California.

Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 buyers are already camping at Micro Center three days before launch : Read more

 

[billy bob bob bob]

Those are just people jensen made homeless with their outdated giant monolithic die expensive gpu's.

 

[ingtar33]

"Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next product"​

Nvidia has trained these sheeple well.

 

[SomeoneElse23]

Or these are the scalpers.

 

[Heiro78]

I oh so hope they get screwed like PS5 PRO scalpers did recently

 

[valthuer]

I spy with my little eye something beginning with scalpers.

 

[helper800]

Imagine having not only 2200-2800 dollars not including taxes while simultaneously being able to skip a week of work for a CHANCE at getting a 5090... Microcenter should have everyone in line draw lots when the store opens and only the winners of that get an allocation every single time they get stock in until there are more cards than people waiting for them. These tent pitchers should be permanently trespassed from the property...

 

[Elusive Ruse]

I doubt regular people with jobs who can afford to spend $2000+ on a GPU are gonna take days off just to camp outside Micro Centre.

 

[valthuer]

I doubt regular people with jobs who can afford to spend $2000+ on a GPU are gonna take days off just to camp outside Micro Centre.

Exactly. These aren't your regular people: they 're your regular scalpers.

 

[helper800]

I doubt regular people with jobs who can afford to spend $2000+ on a GPU are gonna take days off just to camp outside Micro Centre.

Looking in that linked reddit thread, the person first in line claims they are on winter break as a college student. They said that they do not go back to school until the 18th and they are a competitive OCer that dabbles in AI. More power to im' I guess.

 

[gravagehulk]

Idiots...

 

[Elusive Ruse]

Looking in that linked reddit thread, the person first in line claims they are on winter break as a college student. They said that they do not go back to school until the 18th and they are a competitive OCer that dabbles in AI. More power to im' I guess.

I wonder what he studies at college 😆

 

[Peksha]

The headlines the next day: "Gamers are the company's last hope", and this is with such a disastrous release for gamers of the RTX50...
Not that the 20% ($600B) fall in shares in one evening meant anything🤔

 

[Jabberwocky79]

As someone who has never done this and never would, I just have to wonder why people are allowed to do this? As a business owner (in this case MicroCenter), wouldn't having people camping at your front door be a tremendous liability? Why are they not ran off?

 

[USAFRet]

As someone who has never done this and never would, I just have to wonder why people are allowed to do this? As a business owner (in this case MicroCenter), wouldn't having people camping at your front door be a tremendous liability? Why are they not ran off?

Bad publicity.
I could see that going very very wrong.

Who are you going to get to run them off? The police won't do it.
Private security? Someone WILL get injured.

 

[spongiemaster]

Exactly. These aren't your regular people: they 're your regular scalpers.

No scalper is camping out for days to buy one card.

Based on leaks, anyone camping for a 5080 is going to be pretty disappointed with what they get.

 

[Jabberwocky79]

Bad publicity.
I could see that going very very wrong.

Yeah I suppose. But the police run off homeless in front of stores - at least around here. Loitering is against the law, and this is the very definition. Why would these campers be allowed to stay? Because they intend to spend money? Because they have a social media presence? Would seem like a double-standard.

 

[USAFRet]

Yeah I suppose. But the police run off homeless in front of stores - at least around here. Loitering is against the law, and this is the very definition. Why would these campers be allowed to stay? Because they intend to spend money? Because they have a social media presence? Would seem like a double-standard.

Moving homeless people one by one is one thing.
Moving a very tech savvy group is something else.
And when the police DO move a whole 'homeless camp', that goes badly as well.

 

[Jabberwocky79]

No scalper is camping out for days to buy one card.

Why wouldn't they? If they can net a $5000 profit for 3 days camping, that's over $1600 / day. Sounds worth it to me.

 

[txfeinbergs]

Bad publicity.
I could see that going very very wrong.

Who are you going to get to run them off? The police won't do it.
Private security? Someone WILL get injured.

Why not just hand out tickets to purchase to the people in line and have them come back on purchase day. When tickets run out, then tell new people trying to set up camp that there aren't anymore GPUs.

 

[USAFRet]

Why not just hand out tickets to purchase to the people in line and have them come back on purchase day.

What, and give up all that free publicity?

This has happened multiple times. GPUs, playstations, iPhones, etc, etc.

 

[Jabberwocky79]

To change the subject but not really... Why don't online stores like Newegg take preorders? It's a common practice in the gaming industry.

 

[USAFRet]

To change the subject but not really... Why don't online stores like Newegg take preorders? It's a common practice in the gaming industry.

There have been multiple methods to try to ward off scalpers.

Rarely works.
https://videocardz.com/newz/scalpers-already-charging-double-with-no-refunds-for-geforce-rtx-5090

 

[Jabberwocky79]

^^ My question wasn't really about preventing scalping. Because scalpers can preorder something the same as the rest of us. I was looking at it as a helpful customer service feature - to save your spot in line, so-to-speak. But to your point, I guess it wouldn't change availability - it would just move the date forward with the exact same supply issues.... due to scalping, and sheer demand.

 

[USAFRet]

^^ My question wasn't really about preventing scalping. Because scalpers can preorder something the same as the rest of us. I was looking at it as a helpful customer service feature - to save your spot in line, so-to-speak. But to your point, I guess it wouldn't change availability - it would just move the date forward with the exact same supply issues.... due to scalping, and sheer demand.

Right.
No matter where you put the line...normal people can't get there fast enough.