Framework stopped selling standalone RAM in November last year, citing scalpers, and Micro Center sells its CPU, motherboard, and 32GB DDR5 bundles in-store only with a one-per-household limit. Newegg and Amazon have run repeated CPU-plus-memory bundles that price a 32GB kit well below its standalone cost, which ties each kit to a processor a reseller then has to move as well. On eBay, we found G.Skill's Trident Z5 Neo 32GB kit listed at $836.54 in December against a $429.99 retail price, roughly double, and about seven times the $117.99 it sold for before the shortage.
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DawnofWar411 The scalping solution has been in front of retailers faces for years: Pharmacies across the country can limit purchases of basic cold medicine just by tracking driver's licenses. The same software could easily be used for purchases of anything else online. That would require effort on the retailers part and actually caring enough about the consumer, so we'll never see a change here. Reply
PEnns DawnofWar411 said: That would require effort on the retailers part and actually caring enough about the consumer, so we'll never see a change here. Exactly. They are too busy doing the official scalping. Reply
PirateBlis Surprised that there isn't an international law complete with fines against this already. Not only is it contributing to inflated pricing, strong arming normal customers, and contributing to the scalping issues that plague many industries, but the biggest thing people aren't realizing is the amount of incurred costs by the site/retailer due to increased traffic/data draws. Reply
catlady101 I would like them to publish the data on this not just the summary. It would be good to be clear on what criteria they are using to define a " bad bot" and how they gather that information. I have seen sites treat users with a vpn as " bots" so their definition is important, although I have no doubt that the chips are a highly sought after commodity at this time, I would like to see how they measured the parameters to define 91% of traffic as bad bots and if traffic is traffic and not just page views. Reply
kuramakitsune DawnofWar411 said: The scalping solution has been in front of retailers faces for years: Pharmacies across the country can limit purchases of basic cold medicine just by tracking driver's licenses. The same software could easily be used for purchases of anything else online. That would require effort on the retailers part and actually caring enough about the consumer, so we'll never see a change here. And that's exactly where the black market of all those stolen credentials comes into play they just use a million different people's driver's licenses and make their orders there's no way a dumb system can weed out someone's copied driver's license versus someone's legitimate one Reply
OffMyRocker Smells like the NVIDIA scam Jays2cents uncovered during the pandemic. Reply
rluker5 catlady101 said: I would like them to publish the data on this not just the summary. It would be good to be clear on what criteria they are using to define a " bad bot" and how they gather that information. I have seen sites treat users with a vpn as " bots" so their definition is important, although I have no doubt that the chips are a highly sought after commodity at this time, I would like to see how they measured the parameters to define 91% of traffic as bad bots and if traffic is traffic and not just page views. I've used that site nowinstock to track down an available 3080 during a crypto boom and an Optane 900p drive a couple years prior and still have both. Sounds like that site might be lumped in with the "bad bots" Reply
Roland Of Gilead catlady101 said: I would like them to publish the data on this not just the summary. It would be good to be clear on what criteria they are using to define a " bad bot" and how they gather that information. I have seen sites treat users with a vpn as " bots" so their definition is important, although I have no doubt that the chips are a highly sought after commodity at this time, I would like to see how they measured the parameters to define 91% of traffic as bad bots and if traffic is traffic and not just page views. 100% Reply
Love20044 This is what happens when you rush out products ddr3 should be just as good as ddr4,yes I know a lot of people will cry but who cares all of the chips are going into drones and bombs anyway and ddr5 you should just skip to ddr 6 phase out the 5 leave ddr 3and 4 on the deck for at least 6 to 7 more years stop making ddr5 period or stop selling it till you have enough and start back just selling ddr3 and ddr4 Reply
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