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September 21, 2020 07:58 pm

Amazon in-stock alerts are trolling people with $5,000 RTX 3080 graphics cards




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Nvidia’s RTX 3080 launch last week was a total mess, one Nvidia is still navigating the fallout from following its public apology earlier today. The aftermath of the graphics cards selling out in a matter of minutes at pretty much every major US retailer is that the limited supply that does still exist is being hawked on third-party seller sites in increasingly obnoxious fashions. That includes Amazon Marketplace sellers, which are now notifying interested buyers of available units at prices as exorbitant as $5,000 per card.


This isn’t a failure of Amazon so much as it is an act of trolling and exploitation on behalf of the third-party Amazon sellers, some of which are abusing the notification system built into the e-commerce platform....



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/21/21449506/nvidia-rtx-3080-amazon-listings-price-gouging-trolling

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