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mA posted:For people saying bots weren't a factor, this account is full of tweets bragging about using bots to snag cards today https://twitter.com/BounceAlerts Ya this account has been posting transaction id's from Digital Rivers(nvidia store) every few minutes. So somehow they are adding cards to cart and getting out. I have only been able to add it to cart on Nvidia uk. Haven't seen buy option in Nvidia US yet. Amazon.ca are basically accepting backorders for MSI Ventus don't know how big the waiting list is though.
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Sep 17, 2020 17:14
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gently caress you too nvidia
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I really want to see NVidia mass-cancel these orders and do it again next week with proper measures in place. It’d suck for all three of the people who got legit orders again but I’m sure they’d still be able to appreciate the botter tears it would cause.
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mA posted:For people saying bots weren't a factor, this account is full of tweets bragging about using bots to snag cards today https://twitter.com/BounceAlerts bOtS aReNt An IsSuE iTs A pApEr LaUnCh :sees a post with 42 confirmation emails from Nvidia:
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Sep 17, 2020 17:18
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I mean, the right answer was to do your own botting, was it not?
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Sep 17, 2020 17:19
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Between all the  talk, the Nvidia Broadcast App is available for download now.
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Sep 17, 2020 17:19
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I don't even get how a lot of these botters expect to receive their orders. Like one dude got 30 confirmation emails to the same email address, what the poo poo? And what are these people paying with, 30 different credit cards? I probably just don't get some way they're doing it I guess, seems super easy to track on paper.
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Sep 17, 2020 17:19
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Just woke up, see 300 new posts. Was I correct in that absolutely no one in the thread would manage to obtain one of the ~10 cards in existence worldwide?
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Zero VGS posted:Just woke up, see 300 new posts. Was I correct in that absolutely no one in the thread world manage to obtain one of the ~10 cards in existence worldwide? pretty much
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Sep 17, 2020 17:20
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Actually several people seem to have got one.
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sure, I guess a 0.01% hit rate isnt technically 0 m8
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Sep 17, 2020 17:21
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Newegg says they printed the shipping label for mine.
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Taima posted:Actually several people seem to have got one. And several more seem to have gotten thirty, if you stretch the definition of “people” to include botnets.
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Taima posted:I don't even get how a lot of these botters expect to receive their orders. Like one dude got 30 confirmation emails to the same email address, what the poo poo? And what are these people paying with, 30 different credit cards? I imagine its email forwarding and PO boxes.
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Zero VGS posted:no one in the thread would manage to obtain one I'm not sure my country managed to obtain one.
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Sep 17, 2020 17:22
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apparently the "add to cart" link got leaked and this one discord group bought the whole stock. https://twitter.com/shocked_io/status/1306622465741815812
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Some Goon posted:I mean, the right answer was to do your own botting, was it not? no some goon this was not the right answer
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Taima posted:I don't even get how a lot of these botters expect to receive their orders. Like one dude got 30 confirmation emails to the same email address, what the poo poo? And what are these people paying with, 30 different credit cards? Could be different CCs plus different emails that forward to one email. But let’s be real. Nvidia doesn’t give a poo poo if it’s all to the same CC and email. They’ll ship at 30 to that one address without a second glance. All they give a gently caress about is they got their money.
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axeil posted:apparently the "add to cart" link got leaked and this one discord group bought the whole stock. All the BounceAlert and Shockedio and whatever else bot is probably also just a scam to try and get people subbed. A lot of these screenshots could be fake as gently caress too 
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Sep 17, 2020 17:24
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Clinging desperately to the hope that the amazon msi ventus order doesnt get canceled
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Sep 17, 2020 17:24
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So loving pissed at newegg it seems they are shipping some of the accidental orders from yesterday. But they said mine is voided, I'll try to contact them but they are so freaking slow.
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Could just be advertising for that $75/month bot with spoofed screenshots. If that's not the case then fair play to them I guess. Nvidia is the one that decided not to have any anti-botting protection. Not like it makes a difference to them anyway. It's a shame that a bunch of scalpers/miners get a pay day because Nvidia doesn't give a gently caress but everyone here who wants one should be able to get one eventually for retail prices.
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Taima posted:I don't even get how a lot of these botters expect to receive their orders. Like one dude got 30 confirmation emails to the same email address, what the poo poo? And what are these people paying with, 30 different credit cards? You're assuming they're doing any sort of filtering or tracking whatsoever. I mean, yeah, this sort of thing isn't terribly hard to catch if you're watching for it. But, given the lack of even a captcha, it would seem that NVidia's entire strategy was just to ask people nicely to not be assholes, with predictable results.
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axeil posted:apparently the "add to cart" link got leaked and this one discord group bought the whole stock. That’s super hosed up if true.
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People should focus their ire on Nvidia tbh. Bots are well known to exist, and it's a highly sought after, limited stock product that will sell for considerable overs on eBay, etc. You can take it as read that people will be motivated to get as many as they can. They didn't implement anything on their website to counter it because they couldn't give a poo poo about end users, really. Hell, a reCaptcha would've taken like 5 minutes to set up.
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Sep 17, 2020 17:27
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quote:Dear Theophany, ahahahahahaaaaa you bet your fuckin asses I'm calling in a refund first thing tomorrow. Get hosed.
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Sep 17, 2020 17:27
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They voided my first one but not the second I was able to get through later.
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Sep 17, 2020 17:27
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I went to Canada Computers during my lunch break and I open palm slammed my credit card for an ROG STRIX. I'm one of 18 people in the country that did this and the only one in my local store. Full retail price deposit. I don't give a gently caress I refuse to sit around waiting in line and F5ing websites. Now I at least have a slot for whenever their shipment arrives.
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Sep 17, 2020 17:29
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Ordered an ASUS TUF from alternate.nl, no idea when I'll get it, will email when things calm down tomorrow to see when they expect to get stock and probably cancel if it's far away.
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reddit posted:I just got off the phone with the CEO of NVIDIA. He told me that he's never seen anything like this before and that it turns out that it was actually NVIDIA's AI who purchased all of the cards.
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Sep 17, 2020 17:30
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selling a NVIDIA BeForce Botting Card that uses tensor cores to solve the Add To Cart link faster than any bot
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Got off the phone with Newegg after my voided order. They are saying restock window is September 28 till last week of October. So no specific dates.
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ijyt posted:All the BounceAlert and Shockedio and whatever else bot is probably also just a scam to try and get people subbed. A lot of these screenshots could be fake as gently caress too These things are called "cook groups" (to "cook" is to basically check out lots whatever you're trying to resell; it's a dumb term) and they charge anywhere from $15-60 a month depending on how limited their invites are. Typically they have a member cap in Discord and then sell invites at drop times which sell out in seconds. They usually make deals with bot makers from time to time to sell numbers of licenses which are either raffled or, again, dropped at a given time so that a few hundred members try to fight to check out a bot license which in and of itself is usually a couple hundred dollars or more. Those bots resell for anywhere from $300-5000 depending on reputation and recent success. I am not making an ounce of this up.
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The remaining kind of funny mystery is that as far as anyone knows, best buy just never put their FE stock on sale at all. Wonder how that's going to play out. Maybe still coming? Maybe not? Tune in on the next episode of dragonball z
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Theophany posted:ahahahahahaaaaa you bet your fuckin asses I'm calling in a refund first thing tomorrow. Get hosed. Oh dear, my order was with CCL too. I guess I have this to look forward to as well!
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This just means I have more time to evaluate AIB cards like a responsible consumer instead of slamming buy on an FE like I did for the 1080Ti
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Kraftwerk posted:I went to Canada Computers during my lunch break and I open palm slammed my credit card for an ROG STRIX. I'm one of 18 people in the country that did this and the only one in my local store. Full retail price deposit. This is the way. Need to find an option in the USA.
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Taima posted:The remaining kind of funny mystery is that as far as anyone knows, best buy just never put their FE stock on sale at all. I bet those were botted out too
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uh there's one up on amazon.co.uk for £1,188.62 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08JCKYYL8/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=3080&qid=1600360542&sr=8-1
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