News Scalpers sell Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs for up to $1,000 — Ryzen 7 9800X3D is out of stock at major U.S retailers

Oh this B.S. again? Scalping isn't an honest way to make a living, even if it does involve financial risk. We need people to crack down on this.

I'm guessing scalpers also helped 7800X3D mostly dry up on stock and push up prices ahead of 9800X3D's launch.

Just glad I'm not in the market to get either of these. Hard to imagine when I'll need to replace my 7700X.
 
Not sure there is much money in scalping CPU's is there ?

I mean ive bought the 5800x3d at launch and the 7800x3d at launch this time around im going to wait to see what the 9950x3d brings :)

Actually pc case gear in AUS being pc case gear has pre orders with 14/11/24 eta at $ 829aud sadly though they have bumped the price up $30aud from their initial release batch at $799 pretty dodgy to a point but $30 is a small amount over scalpers trying to make $100 to $200 plus !!

But why not just wait more stock will come in just watch your local pc part store ..

and the price will drop !!

I can see the craze Intel has dropped the ball and everything else AMD has been a mess
but this isnt a PS5 where one thing plays the games !!
 
Quickly AMD! BE the scalper as nvidia has shown! You don't have a competition, so price your X3D CPUs $1000 since people will pay this much to the scalpers anyway!! Do it fast! Learn from the best!

And don't worry, "tech journalists" will save your face, telling the masses how inflation has resulted in such unfortunate realities.
 
I got lucky at Microcenter before the scalpers and bots at $456 . Reserved it at 7:30 am sold out at 8am. Picked up after work 8pm.
Got a Lianli GA Trinty performance 360 to keep it all cool and quiet. 😎

Them scalpers will make a killing from all the new Intel consumers!
 
Quickly AMD! BE the scalper as nvidia has shown! You don't have a competition, so price your X3D CPUs $1000 since people will pay this much to the scalpers anyway!! Do it fast! Learn from the best!

And don't worry, "tech journalists" will save your face, telling the masses how inflation has resulted in such unfortunate realities.
The best way to fight scalpers is by over supplying. The scalpers will be the last ones holding the bag. Questions?
 
AMD's new Ryzen 7 9800X3D is in extremely high demand, to the point where it is virtually impossible to buy the CPU right now. Scalpers are taking advantage of the "crisis" charging up to $1,000 for the CPU on eBay.

Scalpers sell Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs for up to $1,000 — Ryzen 7 9800X3D is out of stock at major U.S retailers : Read more
True but the average scalpers price is about $200 over MSRP . On Ebay it is going for $700.
Also the 7800X3D on ebay is selling as low as $300 used.
 
I hope this continues to happen. I hope that scalpers buy every processor that's available so people have to pay super high prices.
You might ask why I'm saying something so ridiculous.
Well it's because everyone chooses to hate Intel and want them to fail miserably.
Well this is the kind of market you get. And I guarantee you this is the last time that AMD is going to sell their chips cheap. They got investors to pay back.

A lot of people forget that AMD was bailed out big time a while back. AMD should have died a long time ago. Therefore, they didn't rise to the top with no help.

Now that Intel which should be a much more respected company for obvious reasons is being slandered by the normal typical people who only want to blurred out their activism and know nothing about how business works or affects other things.

I could be wrong. But that's how I see it.
 
I hope this continues to happen. I hope that scalpers buy every processor that's available so people have to pay super high prices.
You might ask why I'm saying something so ridiculous.
Well it's because everyone chooses to hate Intel and want them to fail miserably.
Given their dirty past and how they tried to screw over AMD, they deserve it.

Well this is the kind of market you get. And I guarantee you this is the last time that AMD is going to sell their chips cheap. They got investors to pay back.
We'll see, I doubt it'll go up.

A lot of people forget that AMD was bailed out big time a while back. AMD should have died a long time ago. Therefore, they didn't rise to the top with no help.
Who bailed them out?

Now that Intel which should be a much more respected company for obvious reasons is being slandered by the normal typical people who only want to blurred out their activism and know nothing about how business works or affects other things.
Intel is a DIRTY ass company with a history of dirty issues.

I could be wrong. But that's how I see it.
You're INCREDIBLY wrong on how respectable Intel is.
 
Given their dirty past and how they tried to screw over AMD, they deserve it.


We'll see, I doubt it'll go up.


Who bailed them out?


Intel is a DIRTY ass company with a history of dirty issues.


You're INCREDIBLY wrong on how respectable Intel is.
Not even going to click an adored tv video, but please, explain to me how exactly that works.

Companies are made of...people, right? Namely, their board of directors, their engineers etc. Im fairly confident that a huge part of people that were on Intel 20 years ago aren't anymore, they are in other companies (including AMD) or they are out of business altogether. So how can a company, which is made of people, and that have completely different people than it had 10-20-30-40 years ago be "dirty"? Is there some kind of magic going on in Intel's headquarters and the moment someone steps in there they turn to evil? Was Robert Hallock a decent fella back when he was working for AMD and suddenly turned to necromancy and blood magic when he went to work for Intel?

Come on, you are just a part of the cult that hates Intel / loves AMD for no reason. Just admit that you hate them for 0 reason whatsoever like everyone else does - at least I couldn't logically argue against it. Now you are pretending there is a reason. Come on, we are grownups here, you are not convincing anyone.
 
Not even going to click an adored tv video, but please, explain to me how exactly that works.
So you're going to refute watching any evidence, how intellectually lazy of you.

Companies are made of...people, right? Namely, their board of directors, their engineers etc. Im fairly confident that a huge part of people that were on Intel 20 years ago aren't anymore, they are in other companies (including AMD) or they are out of business altogether. So how can a company, which is made of people, and that have completely different people than it had 10-20-30-40 years ago be "dirty"? Is there some kind of magic going on in Intel's headquarters and the moment someone steps in there they turn to evil?
It's called "Company Culture", practices that are passed down from generation to generation of employees.

And it's happening again, even to this day.

Ever notice how MSI has no more Radeon Video Cards, guess who incentivized them to not carry Radeon cards anymore.

Notice how MSI's AMD MoBo line is incredibly sparse compared to ASUS, GigaByte, ASRock, guess who pays incentives / kickbacks to make that happen.

Have you noticed that many of modern portable gaming hand held PC's are nearly all AMD APU's, yet MSI, the only one to buck the trend was bribed to use Intel for their portable hand held, despite it selling horribly and having crap driver support. The upper management knows who is paying them to make such stupid decisions.

Notice how Dell, one of the big OEM's has a paltry AMD lineup compared to HP / Lenovo, guess who pays incentives / kickbacks to make that happen.

This isn't just some blind luck occurance, it's a common practice to suppress the competition through unfair / illegal means. As long as they can get away with it, they'll keep doing it.

AMD couldn't give away their CPU's to Dell when they were winning back in the Athlon 64 days, Intel literally bribed Dell to never take AMD products. Intel was caught and prosecuted on that for violating their Monopoly powers.

And it's continuing to this day.

Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.


Was Robert Hallock a decent fella back when he was working for AMD and suddenly turned to necromancy and blood magic when he went to work for Intel?
He's a guy who moved over to a higher paying position, simple as that. He did what he could at AMD, rose to the top, and got bought out by being offered a higher paying job at Intel.

Come on, you are just a part of the cult that hates Intel / loves AMD for no reason. Just admit that you hate them for 0 reason whatsoever like everyone else does - at least I couldn't logically argue against it. Now you are pretending there is a reason. Come on, we are grownups here, you are not convincing anyone.
Nothing is without reason, I've lived through the Computer business for long enough to see the giant history of dirty dealings, something Intel and nVIDIA are known for.

Just because you are willfully blind to them because you love the companies, doesn't mean it hasn't already happened. You just refuse to see the evidence because you LOVE those companies and aren't willing to see the bad things they've already done and continue to do.

Have you ever wondered why Apple refuses to do business with nVIDIA anymore?
They were BURNED by nVIDIA in the past after Bump-Gate, after that Apple has a internal mandate to 100% refuse to do business with nVIDIA thanks to their cultural practices led by Jensen Huang.

Notice how MS was burned by nVIDIA during the OG Xbox era, they stopped using them in consoles afterwards.

Same with Sony with PS3, they used nVIDIA once, after that, they've went with AMD since then.

Notice how Nintendo has only used nVIDIA once, so far. We'll see how long that relationship lasts.
Nintendo has used AMD in the past, and only recently lost the bid/contract for the Switch 2 by a hairs margin.
 
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So you're going to refute watching any evidence, how intellectually lazy of you.


It's called "Company Culture", practices that are passed down from generation to generation of employees.

And it's happening again, even to this day.

Ever notice how MSI has no more Radeon Video Cards, guess who incentivized them to not carry Radeon cards anymore.

Notice how MSI's AMD MoBo line is incredibly sparse compared to ASUS, GigaByte, ASRock, guess who pays incentives / kickbacks to make that happen.

Have you noticed that many of modern portable gaming hand held PC's are nearly all AMD APU's, yet MSI, the only one to buck the trend was bribed to use Intel for their portable hand held, despite it selling horribly and having crap driver support. The upper management knows who is paying them to make such stupid decisions.

Notice how Dell, one of the big OEM's has a paltry AMD lineup compared to HP / Lenovo, guess who pays incentives / kickbacks to make that happen.

This isn't just some blind luck occurance, it's a common practice to suppress the competition through unfair / illegal means. As long as they can get away with it, they'll keep doing it.

AMD couldn't give away their CPU's to Dell when they were winning back in the Athlon 64 days, Intel literally bribed Dell to never take AMD products. Intel was caught and prosecuted on that for violating their Monopoly powers.

And it's continuing to this day.

Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.



He's a guy who moved over to a higher paying position, simple as that. He did what he could at AMD, rose to the top, and got bought out by being offered a higher paying job at Intel.


Nothing is without reason, I've lived through the Computer business for long enough to see the giant history of dirty dealings, something Intel and nVIDIA are known for.

Just because you are willfully blind to them because you love the companies, doesn't mean it hasn't already happened. You just refuse to see the evidence because you LOVE those companies and aren't willing to see the bad things they've already done and continue to do.

Have you ever wondered why Apple refuses to do business with nVIDIA anymore?
They were BURNED by nVIDIA in the past after Bump-Gate, after that Apple has a internal mandate to 100% refuse to do business with nVIDIA thanks to their cultural practices led by Jensen Huang.

Notice how MS was burned by nVIDIA during the OG Xbox era, they stopped using them in consoles afterwards.

Same with Sony with PS3, they used nVIDIA once, after that, they've went with AMD since then.

Notice how Nintendo has only used nVIDIA once, so far. We'll see how long that relationship lasts.
Nintendo has used AMD in the past, and only recently lost the bid/contract for the Switch 2 by a hairs margin.
Your whole take is that of someone that watched too much adoredtv. And it's such a bad take that i don't even need to challenge your claims, let's just for the sake of the argument accept that everything you said is correct.

So MSI (among the other companies you mentioned) is getting bribes by nvidia / intel to not create and market amd products. GREAT. Therefore, it logically follows that XFX and Sapphire are getting bribed by AMD to not release products for intel and nvidia. Right? Oh, of course not, your argument only applies to the companies you hate, doesn't it?

Intel was "caught and prosecuted" and you know what the court decided? That amd did not have the capacity regardless of what Intel did to actually fill the demand. Which btw is true even to this day. Unless AMD gets its own fabs, they will never surpass Intel's marketshare, simply cause they can't make enough chips to meet the demand.

The only dirty dealings I know off are the ones AMD makes with game devs to remove competitors features. Like - you know, there have been games that had DLSS and RT in them working, then AMD sponsored it and lo and behold, DLSS and RT were gone. AMD literally paid devs to remove work that they had already done. But yeap, Intel and nvidia are evil. Sure bud.
 
Your whole take is that of someone that watched too much adoredtv. And it's such a bad take that i don't even need to challenge your claims, let's just for the sake of the argument accept that everything you said is correct.
Nothing AdoredTV reported isn't what I didn't already know and read about in the Tech press long before he summarized it.

So MSI (among the other companies you mentioned) is getting bribes by nvidia / intel to not create and market amd products. GREAT. Therefore, it logically follows that XFX and Sapphire are getting bribed by AMD to not release products for intel and nvidia. Right? Oh, of course not, your argument only applies to the companies you hate, doesn't it?
Did you forget that XFX used to be 100% loyal to nVIDIA? They only swapped sides in 2009.

They were slowly forced out by nVIDIA due to it not being profitable to be their AIB partner.

Just look at eVGA, they were squeezed by profit margins until they decided to leave.

EVGA is reportedly so sick of working with Nvidia that it's going to stop making graphics cards altogether

nVIDIA is the one squeezing their partners until they all slowly all leave their sides.


Sapphire Technology was always a loyal AMD/ATi partner and still is.

Sapphire choose to work with AMD because of how they treat them, they made a choice, and they're happy to continue working with AMD, otherwise they would've jumped ship long ago if they didn't like their working arrangement.


Intel was "caught and prosecuted" and you know what the court decided? That amd did not have the capacity regardless of what Intel did to actually fill the demand. Which btw is true even to this day. Unless AMD gets its own fabs, they will never surpass Intel's marketshare, simply cause they can't make enough chips to meet the demand.
Maybe Intel should vacate all their Waffer Start Agreements with TSMC, given how many fabs that Intel has, they should be able to 100% fully insource, then AMD would have enough Waffer Starts to be competitive. Intel doesn't need Waffer Capacity outside of IFS, they should be good enough with their own Fabs. But they choose to play dirty by buying out Waffer capacity to prevent the competition from expanding while claiming they don't have enough Waffer capacity in their own fabs. But their Quarterly filings has shown that their own fabs are idling which is stupid.

The only dirty dealings I know off are the ones AMD makes with game devs to remove competitors features.

Like - you know, there have been games that had DLSS and RT in them working, then AMD sponsored it and lo and behold, DLSS and RT were gone. AMD literally paid devs to remove work that they had already done.
Proof, where did AMD do that?

That was WccfTech non-sense reporting. We all know the WCCFtech crew there has a hate boner for AMD.

AMD claims there’s nothing stopping Starfield from adding Nvidia DLSS
He admits that — in general — when AMD pays publishers to bundle their games with a new graphics card, AMD does expect them to prioritize AMD features in return. “Money absolutely exchanges hands,” he says. “When we do bundles, we ask them: ‘Are you willing to prioritize FSR?’”
But Azor says that — in general — it’s a request rather than a demand. “If they ask us for DLSS support, we always tell them yes.
And guess what, StarField eventually added DLSS on their own.

But yeap, Intel and nvidia are evil. Sure bud.
So you remain willfully blind of their history.


It's not like nVIDIA hasn't done the same to FSR with their sponsored game.

Control has been out for how long, and it still doesn't have FSR, and unlikely to since it's a nVIDIA sponsered game.

FF15 has been sponsored by nVIDIA and will likely never get FSR either.

There are plenty of nVIDIA only games that have DLSS and no FSR.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_that_support_high-fidelity_upscaling

You don't think that it's a coincidence that those games don't support FSR, despite being Open Source and easily available to anybody.
 
Nothing AdoredTV reported isn't what I didn't already know and read about in the Tech press long before he summarized it.


Did you forget that XFX used to be 100% loyal to nVIDIA? They only swapped sides in 2009.

They were slowly forced out by nVIDIA due to it not being profitable to be their AIB partner.

Just look at eVGA, they were squeezed by profit margins until they decided to leave.

EVGA is reportedly so sick of working with Nvidia that it's going to stop making graphics cards altogether

nVIDIA is the one squeezing their partners until they all slowly all leave their sides.


Sapphire Technology was always a loyal AMD/ATi partner and still is.

Sapphire choose to work with AMD because of how they treat them, they made a choice, and they're happy to continue working with AMD, otherwise they would've jumped ship long ago if they didn't like their working arrangement.
Ah, so basically your argument in a nutshell. Companies that work with nvidia / Intel are only doing so because they are bribed. Companies that don't work with nvidia / Intel anymore stopped because they are being mistreated. On the other hand companies that only work with amd do that cause amd loves them and treats them greatly, while the ones that stop working with amd only do so because Intel / nvidia bribes them.


Yeah, that's what I expect from the average amd fan.

Proof, where did AMD do that?

That was WccfTech non-sense reporting. We all know the WCCFtech crew there has a hate boner for AMD.

AMD claims there’s nothing stopping Starfield from adding Nvidia DLSS

And guess what, StarField eventually added DLSS on their own.
Hundreds of games, but the most damning / obvious one is boundary. Game actually had DLSS and RT (they released a demo of it). Then amd took the sponsorship and....guess what happened 😎

Even people in the industry have posted about it publicly (John Linneman for example)
It's not like nVIDIA hasn't done the same to FSR with their sponsored game.
First of all, Nvidia hasn't actually done the same. You are literally just attacking them with 0 evidence. Want some evidence? Here ya go.

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There are freaking nvidia sponsored games that have FSR and don't even have DLSS. Now look at the amd sponsored games on the left....yeap. Barren wasteland :)

BUT, that's not important. What's important is what you just admitted. "It's not like nvidia hasn't done the same". EXACTLY my point, all of them are the same. Nvidia / amd / intel are as dirty as they can get away with. Trust me, AMD doesn't particularly like you. Not at all.

EG1. FSR didn't exist when control released. It's hard to implement a feature that doesn't exist, take my word for it.
 
Ah, so basically your argument in a nutshell. Companies that work with nvidia / Intel are only doing so because they are bribed. Companies that don't work with nvidia / Intel anymore stopped because they are being mistreated. On the other hand companies that only work with amd do that cause amd loves them and treats them greatly, while the ones that stop working with amd only do so because Intel / nvidia bribes them.


Yeah, that's what I expect from the average amd fan.
Then explain why would companies like Sapphire and all those other exclusive AMD AIB partners stick around instead of being a Multi-Vendor partner?
We all know nVIDIA has a larger portion of the dGPU pie.
So why not become a Multi-GPU partner instead of a exclusive partner?
What's the financial gain from remaining exclusive to AMD?


Hundreds of games, but the most damning / obvious one is boundary. Game actually had DLSS and RT (they released a demo of it). Then amd took the sponsorship and....guess what happened 😎

Even people in the industry have posted about it publicly (John Linneman for example)

First of all, Nvidia hasn't actually done the same. You are literally just attacking them with 0 evidence. Want some evidence? Here ya go.

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There are freaking nvidia sponsored games that have FSR and don't even have DLSS. Now look at the amd sponsored games on the left....yeap. Barren wasteland :)
Cherry Picked Short list from Reddit from a old ass article.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_that_support_high-fidelity_upscaling
Look at the games that lack FSR, plenty of nVIDIA only sponsorship compared to a short list chosen from a old Reddit list that is out of date.

195 Games are missing FSR
123 Games are missing DLSS

BUT, that's not important. What's important is what you just admitted. "It's not like nvidia hasn't done the same". EXACTLY my point, all of them are the same. Nvidia / amd / intel are as dirty as they can get away with. Trust me, AMD doesn't particularly like you. Not at all.
I'm not saying they like me as an individual, most companies never know the individual customers they deal with, but one side hasn't done nearly the dirt dealings as the other. There is a difference given their corporate history and how they behave.

EG1. FSR didn't exist when control released. It's hard to implement a feature that doesn't exist, take my word for it.
Control has been patched plenty of times after the game has been launched, FSR could've been added in at any point. Control was release back in 2019, it's nearly 2025, Remedy could've added in FSR at any point, but has refused to do so.

FFXV was released in 2018, they can go back and patch it in.

That's what patches are for, add in new features.

But it's convenient how old nVIDIA sponsored games don't get patched with a competitors tech.