$340,000 worth of MSI's Nvidia RTX 3090s Stolen in China | Tom's Hardware
 
In a sad turn of fate, 40 cargo boxes of RTX 3090's were stolen from MSI's factory in China this morning, amounting to $336,500 worth of stolen graphics cards. MSI has notified the police regarding the matter and posted a reward of 100,000 Yuan ($15k) for anyone who has useful information regarding the RTX 3090 cargo boxes' whereabouts. MSI's communications on the matter indicate that the factory's shipping area is covered by video surveillance. The company also frequently inspects the trucks that come in and out of the campus. As a result, MSI believes an insider stole the cards. MSI also offers clemency for any participant that steps forward, provided they help locate the stolen items. 
 
Unfortunately, it makes a lot of sense for criminals to steal Nvidia's flagship graphics cards right now. Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090s are still incredibly rare at retail due to high demand, and many of the 3090's on offer are still being sold far above MSRP. In fact, the median selling price of an RTX 3090 is currently estimated at $2,250. That makes RTX 3090s and other current-generation GPUs super valuable as they can be flipped for crazy prices and still sell due to customer desperation. Hopefully, the police can get to the bottom of the issue and find the graphics cards before the thieves sell them. Luckily, this shouldn't upset the market too much. After doing some quick math, the amount of RTX 3090's missing comes to around 220 units, which isn't a lot. But that means there will be a deficit in MSI RTX 3090 SKUs if these cards were headed to your location. But luckily, this is just a single batch, and none of the other AIB partners had cards stolen.
 
I feel sorry for any MSI customers who had a pre-order based on that supply. 
  

40 cargo boxes stolen from within a facility with security and surveillance.
Oof.
That's a fantastic heist, but I think that it is not going to end well for someone. Any group of people with enough access to pull this off, probably is known by employees and will be found out based on their sudden change in attendance and mental state.

* checking EBAY right now *
 

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40 cargo boxes stolen from within a facility with security and surveillance.
Oof.
That's a fantastic heist, but I think that it is not going to end well for someone. Any group of people with enough access to pull this off, probably is known by employees and will be found out based on their sudden change in attendance and mental state.

fantastic heist my A##...lol
what nothing else is stolen and no damage in the break in???? how do they know its there and where it is in the warehouse? and i assume the cards were in the only place in the warehouse with no monitoring???
like if it was in a monitored area  they would know which employee(s) were involved and instead of saying they got away with it have them charged within 48hrs
oh and i suppose no cameras at the doors????
 
no inspection of small trucks or vans? - you don't sneak that many cards in a car - so yeah id be inspecting any truck that is not a regular carrier(semi trailer). you might sneak 1 or two cards out in a car - but you won't do it often -
more times risks being caught- and pfft you might say i'll accept that kind of loss because you lose just as much by drops in the floor by employees(or accidents) - keep my employees happy - i might gift them products its a cheap bonus
 
semi's trailers would be inventoried and on lading papers(which are signed) for the shipper/trucker and then the trucker is still checked at the gates for papers
 
oh and im sure no one noticed an employee vehicle backing(or rental van or cube) up to a warehouse door - just slide an entire pallet onto a truck in the middle of the day
 
it it just as likely getting caught the first time scalping the cards in the USA they have decided to make it look like they have them stolen right under their nose in a secure warehouse which has surveillance monitoring
 
and then this time sell the cards thru a less transparent seller name

After all of those paragraphs, you see why it is a fantastic heist? 40 shipping containers of stuff stolen without being detected? That's gutsy.

Holy Smokes! Did they check that E-Bay web shop they have?

Seriously though, were they serialized cards? If so, they should be able to track numerous cards if they are sold. In such, it may lead them back to the seller. I wonder if these will get sold or if someone will mine with them.

 
 
20 years later. Its the Charmin and Chips(cpus and gpus).....

ebay prices for 3090's are almost at MSRP, bit late to be scalping those now. Would be kinda obvious if any one seller had a 10+ quantity too of an MSI 3090 anyway... 

 
OR... WHAT IF their cards are so crap that they staged the robbery themselves rather than send them out to customers and screw their reputation further.
 

 

MSI has just found another way to scalp their hardware after being caught last time. This time they'll collect the insurance and the ebay auction money.
 
The main thing that stuck out to me is how they only value 40 shipping containers of 3090s at $340,000. Even if you only value them at $1000 each, 340 of them would be $340,000. One would think 340 of them won't even fill one shipping container. Tech news math often makes no sense, but this is next level nonsense. And who in this forum believes they just had 40 shipping containers of 3090s just sitting around when no one can find them in retail anywhere.
 
The dumpster fire at MSI is out of control.

Seems a bit large of a quantity to go missing after MSI subsidiary Starlit got caught price gouging 3080's. Also odd that Starlit was able to "access inventory they where not allowed to handle". Seems like MSI has a problem with inventory security.  MSI Gaming USA on Twitter: "Regarding Starlit Partner/eBay: https://t.co/QqRDBNRdVa" / Twitter

Yep, after digging into the 'facts' of this case - a lot of it just doesn't add up . 
Very suspicious that supply is so scarce around the world , yet MSI just had these cards ready to go / manufactured / sitting around.
 
...and the rest of the details just don't add up either .   MSI needs a deep, deep investigation inside the top company personnel .
 

The new Gold graphics card

OMG 😲

Thats like 300 cards or maybe 2 pallets.
 
I bet the CCP has them.