[SOLVED] Scalping Processors: What to do to fight it?

[Jgraves71]

Had a long chat with a service rep at ebay about how to report them all. Any other suggestions? Seems like AMD and other manufacturers should do something to combat it besides limiting sales. Lawsuit vs ebay? Very salty over waiting 2 months on build and not being able to order a minute after launch but ebay is flush with 5000 series processors at double retail...

 

[COLGeek]

Patience is a virtue. I would suggest to anyone that waiting is the best course of action in regards to limited quantity releases of hot tech.

What is the hurry? And, why pay a premium for instant gratification? Why line the pockets of unscrupulous resellers?

Just say no (thank you).

 

[curley81]

nicely done im gonna wait till the prices settle and stock is better i gotta flush coolant in feb at latest so hoping to get it all done at once then gonna put my 2700x into MATX build then upgrade GPU later in year august so hoping to have better prices and better knowledge of bang for buck on all the GPUs out by then but this scalping business is making everything harder to do no doubt

 

[kingbowcat]

Patience is a virtue. I would suggest to anyone that waiting is the best course of action in regards to limited quantity releases of hot tech.

What is the hurry? And, why pay a premium for instant gratification? Why line the pockets of unscrupulous resellers?

Just say no (thank you).

Do you think I should preorder for christmas or wait until January when it could be cheaper? or maybe they run out of stock again?

 

[COLGeek]

Do you think I should preorder for christmas or wait until January when it could be cheaper? or maybe they run out of stock again?

If you can pre-order for the "regular" price, then go for it. Otherwise, wait.

 

[kingbowcat]

nicely done im gonna wait till the prices settle and stock is better i gotta flush coolant in feb at latest so hoping to get it all done at once then gonna put my 2700x into MATX build then upgrade GPU later in year august so hoping to have better prices and better knowledge of bang for buck on all the GPUs out by then but this scalping business is making everything harder to do no doubt

Yes thats smart wish I waited instead of buying a 5700xt especially with 3080's and upcoming 6000xt series coming soon. Like a new dawn for GPU's lol.. I can't pass the 5600x though for the price its amazing and needed to upgrade from my 2600x. Nice rig btw but I don't do that much RGB would probably give me epilepsy haha.

 

[curley81]

thats the beauty of RGB you can set them anyway you want and mess about when you get bored don't have to have flashing and thank you its not finished yet still a work in progress

 

[SamirD]

Hopefully it will just sort itself out in a few months and prices will come down a little at etail.

It always does. Time does a lot for prices. Keep in mind the bathtub curve and you can buy really good stuff cheap.

I dont think retailers are against scalping in fact i think they like it, it means that their previous generation unsold stock will hold its value longer and people will continue to buy it.
they are still selling RTX 2080s for £600 - 700 in the UK if the RTX 3070s were available then they would be worth less than £400 i think there is a bigger con happening than people think and retailers and manufacturers know what they are doing
wpuld not surprise me if there is stock being sat on to make it happen

I agree with you. In fact I'm sure manufacturers also do this to control the prices in the market and the supply chain. I still remember when a 1080Ti was $1000 at the height of mining. Once the 20xx cards flooded the market, the 1080Ti lost a lot of value even though the performance wasn't dramatically worse than the 20xx series. But the demand for the 1080Ti fell when a 20xx was just $50 more. This is how demand for the 20xx and nvidia's market penetration were maintained. There's a lot of very smart people at these companies playing puppetmaster with the supply chain--don't think otherwise when there's billions of dollars out there.

 

[InvalidError]

why not join in the 10 other "i can't get a new cpu and want to vent" threads instead of making yet another one.

If there is room for 10, there is room for 11. Shouldn't change the total amount of space these take on the message board's server drives by much.

 

[SamirD]

If there is room for 10, there is room for 11. Shouldn't change the total amount of space these take on the message board's server drives by much.

LOL! It would be interesting to know how much the database grows each day.

 

[curley81]

managed to get a 5800x but had to buy in bundle with b550 strix MOBO and corsair ram and not at scalping price the ram i can use for my matx build and can either sell the mobo or keep as spare always good to have spares

here's a question for the MATX build in putting a 2700x in a mortar MOBO do you think i should disable 2 of the cores to reduce temps or would it not make a difference or do you think it will be fine as an 8 core? or would