In different corners of the Internet, nonetheless, expectations have been met and makes an attempt flourished. These appear to have been largely met by scalpers, although, so there’s nothing idyllic on this specific portray – it is extra akin to Edvard Munch’s The Scream than it’s Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night. On eBay, an RTX 3080 card was allegedly bought for 70,000$ – a very felony act, if I’ve ever seen one. It’s additionally widespread, proper now, to see a few of these going for costs ranging between $1,300 and $5,000 – and at this level, this author feels he is nearly out of metaphors for this specific scenario. Apparently, a service named Bounce Alerts was used – it seems that most RTX 3080 orders have been completed by this service, which robotically purchased as a lot RTX 3080 inventory because it may from wherever they have been bought. A person reported having acquired some 42 RTX 3080’s from the NVIDIA retailer earlier than inventory ran out. There are even bots designed to bid on eBay gross sales in order to waste scalpers’ time and make orders that can by no means be fulfilled – a kind of poetic justice, should you might, although I do not imagine the type Shakespeare himself would have conceived of.
Cue NVIDIA itself popping out with an announcement that handbook evaluations of positioned orders are being completed to try to filter out bot or trigger-happy scalper orders, and you have got your self what could appear extra akin to a paper launch than an actual, hardware-on-the-shelf one. It must be famous, although – expectations have been excessive, and so they appear to have been met. And after all, clients who did not materialize any order in any respect will at all times be extra vocal than those that did safe one – it is human nature 101. We’ll have to attend and see how availability pans out within the subsequent couple of weeks – solely then can we truly take a look at this occasion with none novelization. However, one factor could be mentioned: the RTX 3080’s launch is a canine from hell. Bukowski knew it earlier than all of us did.
“This morning we noticed unprecedented demand for the GeForce RTX 3080 at world retailers, together with the NVIDIA on-line retailer. At 6 a.m. pacific we tried to push the NVIDIA retailer stay. Despite preparation, the NVIDIA retailer was inundated with visitors and encountered an error. We have been in a position to resolve the problems and gross sales started registering usually.
To cease bots and scalpers on the NVIDIA retailer, we’re doing the whole lot humanly attainable, together with manually reviewing orders, to get these playing cards within the fingers of legit clients.
Over 50 main world retailers had stock at 6 a.m. pacific. Our NVIDIA workforce and companions are transport extra RTX 3080 playing cards day-after-day to retailers.
We apologize to our clients for this morning’s expertise.” – NVIDIA PR on 9/17/2020
Oh NVIDIA, this launch has our hearts.
