News RTX 5090 scalpers sell Blackwell flagship GPU for up to $7,000 — 2X-3X scalper markup over MSRP

[Admin]

Pre-reserved booking slots for the RTX 5090 might involve a substantial markup over MSRP.

RTX 5090 scalpers sell Blackwell flagship GPU for up to $7,000 — 2X-3X scalper markup over MSRP : Read more

 

[ekio]

Scalping should become a federal crime.

And it would be easy to catch the assh*les who are practicing it.

 

[SomeoneElse23]

Simple solution: never ever buy from a scalper.

Let them go broke with their greediness.

 

[dimar]

Scalping should become a federal crime.

And it would be easy to catch the assh*les who are practicing it.

I don't care if it's some person trying to make some cash. But if it's store workers, then they should be exposed.

 

[joartrak]

Scalping is pretty lame but the people who (if any?) are spending that much money on a freaking GPU. In reality land, $7k pays a lot of bills and removes a lot of debt. Even if you had that kind of money to burn on a GPU, it just feels irresponsible. A giant tech firm trying to supply a business I can see spending lots of money for lots of units, that is about it though. Mind boggling.
/rantover

 

[ekio]

Simple solution: never ever buy from a scalper.

Let them go broke with their greediness.

I would never of course,

But even if you stay apart, they make many people struggle to get what they need because of shortage.

And that, I can't accept it.

 

[Daggre]

nVidia should just sell their Founders Edition cards directly to consumers the same way Apple sells their hardware directly to consumers. They should already be taking orders (1 per user/shipping address/credit card) and simply providing an estimated ship date, and nVidia could keep all the profits for the cards instead of sharing that profit with the stores and scalpers. 3rd party scalpers would not be able to do this kind of nonsense if nVidia would just give this option.

 

[halfcharlie]

Don't let anyone you know forget: NEVER give pathetic scalper scum money, you can always wait and find stock legitimately without supporting criminals.

 

[Pete Mitchell]

Time to go Luigi on the scalpers.

 

[Rokinamerica]

Time to go Luigi on the scalpers.

Black humor or not, you are reprehensible. I will wait for you to google that.

 

[joartrak]

nVidia should just sell their Founders Edition cards directly to consumers the same way Apple sells their hardware directly to consumers. They should already be taking orders (1 per user/shipping address/credit card) and simply providing an estimated ship date, and nVidia could keep all the profits for the cards instead of sharing that profit with the stores and scalpers. 3rd party scalpers would not be able to do this kind of nonsense if nVidia would just give this option.

That would actually be pretty great, AMD could very well do the same. Would eliminate a lot of guess work, put cards in hands, and they would know how much supply they would need prior to release. I dig it.

 

[ihateregister]

Scalping should become a federal crime.

And it would be easy to catch the assh*les who are practicing it.

It is a crime. Ask how many scalpers pay taxes on their resold items. The answer is always $0.

 

[beyondlogic]

easiest way is to get eBay to put a cap on the amount of same item they can sell over a certain amount.

also by bar code they could implement a max cap on how much they can charge for said items. again its tricky.

best way is to swing the pendulum at ebay threw fines and fees.

 

[Stomx]

If NVIDIA would not remove NVlink few years ago you'd completely skip all this buzz and buy another 3090Ti from eBay for $800-1000 and get the same performance with even larger VRAM 48 GB vs 32 Gb in 5090

 

[tomspown]

Groups should starting spamming scalpers 1000nds of mail calls and sms night and day.

 

[jlake3]

nVidia should just sell their Founders Edition cards directly to consumers the same way Apple sells their hardware directly to consumers. They should already be taking orders (1 per user/shipping address/credit card) and simply providing an estimated ship date, and nVidia could keep all the profits for the cards instead of sharing that profit with the stores and scalpers. 3rd party scalpers would not be able to do this kind of nonsense if nVidia would just give this option.

EVGA did that for the 30-series, and their cards still got scalped anyways as people with low order numbers flipped them and people who’s estimated ship date was months and months out paid to scalper prices rather than wait.

The only solution is to flood the market with such a volume of MSRP priced options very soon within release, so as to give scalpers very little appeal and very little time to work.

 

[jlake3]

If NVIDIA would not remove NVlink few years ago you'd completely skip all this buzz and buy another 3090Ti from eBay for $800-1000 and get the same performance with even larger VRAM 48 GB vs 32 Gb in 5090

…that’s not how SLI worked. Both cards needed their own copy of the data in VRAM, so two 24gb cards together is still 24gb of usable VRAM. It then had less than 100% scaling with frame pacing and tearing issues, and that’s IF the devs and drivers even have a multi-GPU profile for your game.

I bought a used GTX 690 back in the day because it sounded rad and the 900-series had caused the price to crash. I ended up replacing it with a 970 in less than a year because it was not as good as the average FPS numbers implied.

 

[micheal_15]

There's no ETH mining etc anymore. So the scalpers hoping there will be a big miner push are out of luck.

The 4090 is pretty much equal to the 5090 in terms of mining capability anyway. 5090 has slight faster memory, but it can't speed up having your blocks validated by other users

Here's hoping they bought a crapton of 5090s and have to sell them at a loss.

ALSO did you notice the "no refunds"? thats because some of these are 3090s with 5090 slapped over the top and the firmware model edited.

 

[Elf_Boy]

Are Scalpers now the bane of our society?

When I worked at Target back in the 1990's we would have to deal with highly aggressive collectors. People who would follow and hound employees, even let themselves into the back room and go searching for what they want.

Seems pretty much the same kind of people are collecting and reselling now.

We have laws against scalping things like food and fuel, yet choose not to do so with other items. Not so sure I fully understand.

 

[Trake_17]

They should sell these with a recertification program. Like DRM or something. Every week, you have to recertify that you have it somehow and if you don't, you get hit with a 2x MSRP fee.

 

[helper800]

It is a crime. Ask how many scalpers pay taxes on their resold items. The answer is always $0.

This is incorrect on several different levels. Ebay would be the one to collect sales tax on an item sold on their platform. Ebay would also be the one to send the seller a 1099K. Should the sum total of sales net a profit that year you will be taxed on your profits by your calculated income level the year the sale was made.

If NVIDIA would not remove NVlink few years ago you'd completely skip all this buzz and buy another 3090Ti from eBay for $800-1000 and get the same performance with even larger VRAM 48 GB vs 32 Gb in 5090

SLI/NVlink does not work in the ways you implicitly and explicitly say. Two 3090 Ti's do not mean you get double performance. Best case scenario you would get 35% more performance. The amount of added stutter also makes games nearly unplayable even if they are supported. Also, each graphics card only has access to its own memory, not both. If both cards have 24gb of memory they that is all they can use, you don't magically get more vRAM usable in the manner you suggest.

EVGA did that for the 30-series, and their cards still got scalped anyways as people with low order numbers flipped them and people who’s estimated ship date was months and months out paid to scalper prices rather than wait.

The only solution is to flood the market with such a volume of MSRP priced options very soon within release, so as to give scalpers very little appeal and very little time to work.

I was one of the lucky few that got an EVGA 3080 10gb 2 weeks after release because I clicked notify me early after the release. I did this to every listed card they had on their site at the same time so I got notified when my time in the queue was up for all of them. Of course I only bought the FTW3 Ultra I wanted and passed on all the others so the next people got notified for their turn. The vast majority of people who got an allocation like this through EVGA did the same as I did.

There are actually more solutions to this economically, but no consumer likes to hear the answer. If demand outstrips supply, the item should have been priced higher to begin with. If the 5090 was 5,000 or even 10,000 dollars MSRP the scalpers would be unable to do what they do because this is towards the top limit of price anyone in the market is willing to pay for the cards. Once demand decreases at those prices the cards would go on sale at a price that matches demand until everyone that can afford one gets one. Then the price would lower again, rinse and repeat. People unwilling to pay for it at 5k will wait until everyone that is willing to purchase it at 5k has one and then the price has to lower to make further sales. If you are forever unwilling to purchase the card when the price settles at whatever demand allows it to, that means that you could never have afforded the card in the first place.

The reason these cards have historically never had enough supply at launch is because of how the silicon for these cards is divvied out to begin with. A 5090 requires a chip to be too poor for their GB100 GPUs and Nvidia are not going to be using their chips that are good enough for a GB100 for a GB202 because they make wayyyy more money on their H200 systems which utilize them.