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Nvidia 4080 Scalpers Have to Resort to MSRP Prices as Retailers Refuse Refunds!
Coming clearly in the hope that the Nvidia 4080 graphics card would prove to be an exceptionally popular model with consumers, scalpers leapt in on release day and swiped a lot of the initial stock available. There were, however, two pretty huge problems that they didn’t anticipate. Firstly, consumer interest…
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Nvidia 4080 Scalpers Suffer as Consumers Show Little Interest in the GPU
While the graphics card market has undoubtedly calmed down a lot when compared to this time last year, following the launch of both the Nvidia 4090 and 4080 it was hardly surprising that scalpers were looking to turn a quick buck by buying the GPUs at their retail price and…
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Graphics Cards Prices Continue to Fall on eBay!
While certainly still being a long way from getting out the bunting and throwing a party, it’s hard to deny that the situation regarding both graphics card prices and availability has been improving since the start of the year. A factor possibly represented by the fact that resellers on eBay…
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Graphics Card Scalpers MAY Be Feeling the Pinch as Prices Get Lowered By 10%
There have been more than a few indications since the start of the year that retail graphics card prices and availability have, slowly but surely, been getting better. Now admittedly, things are still a long way away from being great. With the value of Bitcoin having fallen quite significantly since…
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The PS5 is (Somehow) Sony’s Officially Fastest-Selling Console Ever
The PS5 has been in absolutely huge demand ever since it was released late last year, but due to a large combination of unfortunate circumstances, even nearly 9 months on, it’s still very difficult to actually get your hands on one of the systems. Well, not unless you’re willing to…
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The Steam Deck is Already Plagued by Scalpers!
Following the official announcement of the Steam Deck last week, the demand for the handheld system has been surprisingly high, with even Valve themselves confirming that not only did their website temporarily shut down due to an overwhelming amount of traffic but that shipments for the system have now likely…
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Should Facebook Be More Proactive Against Scalpers?
If you’re currently in the market for a next-gen console or relatively new graphics card from AMD or Nvidia, you’ll undoubtedly be aware that general stock levels among major retailers (both online and physical) are pretty terrible at the moment. Admittedly, they are out there in the wild, but it…
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AMD 6800 XT Midnight Black Edition Gets Sold Out in Seconds!
Following confirmation earlier this week, AMD launched their ‘new’ Radeon 6800 XT Midnight Black Edition graphics card. And, given that this was a new GPU, consumers were clearly more than a little interested to not only check it out but who knows, perhaps dare to see if it would actually…
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AMD 6700 XT Listed on Second-Hand Market!
Now, before you start questioning yourself, no, you’re not wrong, and yes, you did read that correctly. For those of you who are blissfully unaware of the issue here though, the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is not set to officially release until March 18th. Following a report via Videocardz,…
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UK Parliament to Discuss Anti-Scalping Law
With the latter quarter of 2020 seeing lots of new technological releases, one of the most significant issues that have affected the industry is that despite it all looking more than a little tasty, in most circumstances, you can’t actually buy any of it. AMD Ryzen 5000’s, Nvidia 30XX’s, PS5’s,…
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Scalpers Made $5.88M Selling AMD Ryzen 5000’s on eBay
It’s been pretty well known that following the launch of various new tech products late last year, actually getting hold of one of them (any one of them) has proven to be more than a little difficult. Of course, this is thanks in no small part due to scalpers looking…
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Game UK Denies Scalpers Just Claimed 2,000 PS5’s
Since their launch in November last year, even despite the fact that we’re now over 2-months on from that, getting hold of a PS5 is still more than a little difficult. If not impossible. With Game UK recently announcing new stock arrival, however, one scalping group has claimed that despite…
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eBay Scammer Sends a Concrete Block Instead of a PS5
If you were not lucky enough to get your pre-order in place, then the realization is possibly dawning on you (or, at least, it should’ve by now!) that getting a PS5 this side of Christmas is looking increasingly unlikely. Demand is high, supply is low, and scalpers are pretty much…
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eBay Warns of PS5 Scammers Selling Photos As Consoles
It’s not exactly a secret that with the release of the PS5 earlier this month, there has been a huge problem with scalpers decimating the stock levels available to real consumers. Albeit, that doesn’t always work in their favor as one such person recently had their entire stash stolen at…
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PS5 Scalper Gets His Stash Stolen at Gunpoint?!
It’s been well documented that since the launch of the PS5 earlier this month, scalpers have had a pretty huge impact on the already limited amount of stock available. Put simply, if you were not able to successfully pre-order a system, then the chances are that your success of finding…
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