Any type of pre-order would be great

They need to do something, and not just fixing their garbage website. I’m kind of glad I didn’t get a first batch card because of the whole CapGate issue, but that turned out to be fine.

But still - this is getting stupid. The Turing launch wasn’t nearly this bad.

But yeah..  Something definitely needs to be done to eliminate scalpers.
 

if everyone just had pre order would be no line up's maybe they like that lol

schweibreezy
people keep asking questions like this and its just a waste of time. it will never happen junior.

If the forums are monitored, and good solutions are suggested, and could be easily implemented, I don't see why they wouldn't be.  So...  Posts like these seem like they aren't really that much of a waste of time.  If even one card gets into the hands of a consumer instead of a bot because of the ideas that come out of a post like this, it was worth it.

I just imagine all these manufacturers agree to not allow preorders for some reason, maybe to keep everyone from buying one single brand, as all the others would suffer. It's an artificial way to keep demand all around, else there might only be EVGA or something... ? 

adaemus
There must be some rule in place against this.

Not really, but it could be worse.  From a tech standpoint, this is only going to be a very short term problem.  Release cycle of new tech is every 18 months or so.  Purchasing all the stock during that window isn't really feasible.  Eventually stock outpaces the resources of the scalpers, they can't continue to hold on to inventory that they can't move, so certainly can't pick up more.  At least we aren't dealing with an incredibly limited release, like the shoes that these bots were originally meant to grab.  These are shoes that are released in incredibly limited quantities, and bots are so prevalent that the entire community had to a completely different retail model to even attempt to combat scalpers.  Imagine having to show up to your local shop, to get a ticket to get entered into a raffle to get a video card.  You should up first, and then told that you might get one if your number gets pulled from a hat...  We don't have it that bad...  we just have to have patients and wait it out until it will no longer be profitable for scalpers to snatch up inventory that they can't get rid of.