Amazon combats Nvidia and AMD GPU scalpers with Prime subs

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honeybadger1984@reddit

It would be a way to limit say one Nvidia card per household, per Prime account. But not doing the 5090 is stupid. Kinda pointless as the 5080 isn’t impossible to get. Just pay the huge AIB mark up.

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Boofster@reddit

So people don't have families and girlfriends and kids who have PCs too?

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honeybadger1984@reddit

For the context of 5080/5090, no they don’t exist. The problem is giving scalpers wiggle room, and then they’ll claim they have 12 roommates.

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imaginary_num6er@reddit

RTX 5090 is exempt, but that’s not too surprising given its lofty price tag.

What the hell

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EdzyFPS@reddit

This alone tells you that it's not about stopping scalpers, but cashing in on them buying prime subs to scalp the already scalped GPUs.

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LoveNoirPhotos@reddit

I'm sure people will just use free trials to purchase..

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impablomations@reddit

I just had a look on Amazon UK, there's one from some German seller that's charging £4000/$5200 for a 5090!

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Clear-Subject-842@reddit

ive seen 5090s available in scandiavian stores for about 32-3300 euros, They sell out within a few hours but at least not instantly.

Still too much for what is supposed to be around a 2050 ish euro card.

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ThrowawayusGenerica@reddit

What, 9000!? There's no way that could be right!!

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steak4take@reddit

It's literally there on the page, sold by ASUS.

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meodd8@reddit

Laughable, really. The product classes that, today, doesn’t even have stock issues are limited, but the 90 series that still sells out immediately when not bundled is exempt????

Don’t make me laugh.

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Avalanc89@reddit

*Amazon profits on GPU scalpers. FTFY

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ComfortableTomato807@reddit

Now we can pay a subscription to be "scalped" by a mega corporation, very creative Amazon

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TheJohnnyFlash@reddit

Or just wait a couple months. Like really, what game is there right now that needs an RTX 5090?

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Aggravating_Fun_7692@reddit

Do people still play VR? I can't think of any games outside that Half life one that looked worthwhile

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Pulverdings@reddit

Cockpit games, like Flight Sim or F1 or other racing games. Far better than a trippel monitor setup.

Also there are a lot of ports of classic games to VR by the community, but those games don't need a 5090, we'll maybe except Crysis VR. https://github.com/fholger/crysis_vrmod

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Aggravating_Fun_7692@reddit

Had fun with my VR headset for a couple weeks when I got it and it's been collecting dusts for years now

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RikuDesu@reddit

5090 drivers need more time in the oven too, I'd advise people to wait unless they're worried about tarrif price hikes, which I feel already were applied so no sense in rushing atm

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joyboyNOW@reddit

You can shittalk all you want but 99% of retailers in germany priced 5090s for 1k over msrp. Amazon actually unironically the most consumer friendly pricing

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Aggravating_Fun_7692@reddit

Amazon doesn't sell them, 3rd parties sell on Amazon. Probably why others are down voting you

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Baggynuts@reddit

Honest question. Will this actually do anything though. If you're making thousands on scalping, the price of a Prime membership is peanuts.

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DehydratedButTired@reddit

It will tax scalpers with memberships so amazon gets a cut.

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Hard to say, I worked in the botting world for a year and it was common on sites like Amazon to have hundreds of accounts if you were serious about getting stock since a single account doing too much activity triggered the anti-bot hard. If this means that the account that sees stock also needs prime to buy it then this could actually be pretty big since that's dozens or hundreds of prime subs, which would eat into their margins quickly.

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ReplacementLivid8738@reddit

They could spend the prime sub on a Twitch stream they control to recoup like half of the cost.

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Gjallock@reddit

It definitely works. I got my 5080 at msrp and it sat for almost 2 days.

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StickiStickman@reddit

Where? How?

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Gjallock@reddit

On Amazon, I just saw it and bought it lol

Said Prime exclusive on it

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Strazdas1@reddit

Yes, it will. It will make Bezos richer, which was the goal.

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wrathek@reddit

Based on literally no 50 series gpus showing up if you turn on the prime filter? No, probably not.

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neuro_08@reddit

You can't have multiple Prime accounts with the same name. They only allow this to a certain extent for business/seller accounts. They have stringent suspension policies for running multiple Primes under the same person:

Amazon or its content providers grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and make personal and non-commercial use of the Amazon Services.

There's ways around it, but it involves unique identities on your network, address, payment and cookies. It would make no sense to do this, hence the reason for them doing this.

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Deep90@reddit

Maybe.

Usually scalpers are running a bunch of accounts so this does start to limit how many they could theoretically run at a time.

If they buy too many bots, it might not actually get them more GPUs since they are competing against other bots anyway.

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ParthProLegend@reddit

Isn't first month prime free ? 🤣

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nokei@reddit

If they limited it to one purchase per prime then it'd be tacking on like $140 per card assuming it locked them into the year.

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TheMissingVoteBallot@reddit

It'll slow it down because activating a Prime membership will take some effort from a new account.

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NeverLookBothWays@reddit

Sounds like scalping but with extra steps

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TheEDMWcesspool@reddit

They are not combatting scalpers, they are joining scalpers by scalping a subscription out of you..

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Jaybonaut@reddit

This is still taking advantage of people.

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reddit_equals_censor@reddit

ah yes that is the reason.....

and not amazon trying to hold products hostage under a subscription and that is how it should get reported on...

right.......

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holy shit club386 what the shit is this headline?

utter bullshit.

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Sevastous-of-Caria@reddit

Is there a one per purchase rule? İf not,this benefits scalpers more cause they will buy it then get all 10 of the stock

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clearkill46@reddit

It's been in place for a while now, I noticed when a 5070ti I had backordered popped back in stock with a sooner delivery date, wouldn't let me check out unless I cancelled the first one.

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mechnanc@reddit

Yeah this will do jack unless they limit it to 1 per account in a certain time period, like once a month.

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xole@reddit

That's what I'm hoping, even if it's 1 per model per month per household, it'd help a little bit.

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Jon_TWR@reddit

I still don’t see any available.

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Deeppurp@reddit

They did this with the switch launch, reserved launch units for prime only members cause scalping was growing worse even back then.

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DiggingNoMore@reddit

Why is the photo of a 9070XT for $1,050? I thought they were supposed to be $600.

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the11devans@reddit

This specific model has been set to a list price of $1050, then when in stock it goes on "sale" to $750. It's been like that for a few days now

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gurugabrielpradipaka@reddit (OP)

Because Amazon is now the scalper.

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advester@reddit

MSRP was just a couple token cards at launch.

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airfryerfuntime@reddit

I'm not seeing a single 'exclusively for prime membership' GPU. It's just all of the same ones I was seeing last week, an abundance of 5060s, slightly overpriced 5070s, and $4000 5090s.

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DNosnibor@reddit

I didn't even know the 5060 had been launched.

Never mind, I just checked, it hasn't. I guess you meant 4060 lol

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Frac0@reddit

Always thought Best Buy should've done this.

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daggah@reddit

They tried? Back in the rtx 3000 series shortages days, they locked some gpu drops behind their membership program paywall. It wasn't a popular move...

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shalol@reddit

Maybe not popular amongst GPU miner bots, that is

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1mVeryH4ppy@reddit

As if Prime membership is something exclusive...

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EnigmaSpore@reddit

hahaha. it's an elite club... and we're all in it.

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FitOutlandishness133@reddit

I’m looking at Amazon right now they have 5080 going from 1600&-2200$ . Not in a million years I hope whoever little scalpers are selling this go bankrupt and choke on all the taxes they never pay.

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chx_@reddit

Abject failure on the journalist's side. Let me fix it:

We can no longer recommend Amazon Prime since part of your money will go towards directly funding the leaders of the American fascist state and providing a very important propaganda outlet for it.

There.

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basil_elton@reddit

Everything Amazon does other than AWS is literally to increase Prime memberships, including sinking hundreds of millions of dollars to make fan-fiction TV shows.

This isn't some big revelation.

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