jwad_
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This person bought 25 Graphics cards off Amazon with a bot so that they could sell them to desperate people for higher prices. It hurts to look at... 
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 00:47:37
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Yea, Amazon sadly isn't doing to much about people using bots, it's nearly impossibly to get a card there.
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 00:55:52
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wow, I am glad EVGA does only 1 a person. Giving us gamers a chance.
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 07:51:40
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It does suck that so few retailers are even trying to stop the bots, but I'm least surprised Amazon isn't trying.
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 08:10:08
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If he flips them on Amazon as a third party seller, they will get that commission too. So I don't think trying to stop this has ever crossed their mind much the same as all the counterfeit products.
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jwad_
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 08:16:07
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If he flips them on Amazon as a third party seller, they will get that commission too. So I don't think trying to stop this has ever crossed their mind much the same as all the counterfeit products.
Yup Amazon is pretty complicit when it comes to things like this. As long as they are making money they don't care much about scalpers.
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 08:18:00
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Looks like extreme luck. There are hundreds of bots on amazon competing with each other.
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 08:40:17
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Yep, Amazon is pretty much EBAY now......  3rd party sellers get products , then flip sales at exaggerated prices & Amazon gets commission both times...
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 10:49:00
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Ebay/newegg/amazon need to clean up the trash that people are selling. Its just not good business. Imagine going into walmart tomorrow and having to buy items to the highest bidder. Just doesn't make sense.
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 10:54:47
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Ah, so frustrating to see that... 
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 11:11:05
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Must be wealthy to buy all that in one go
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 11:14:42
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Must be wealthy to buy all that in one go
You mean a miner?
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 11:43:52
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It's crazy buying any hot product today.
Walmart for a ps5 was a hoot, it's one strange system that means you either get super luck or play the game walmart has set out.
Dunno if it keep the bots out - but I did score a ps5 that way.
For the 3080, 3070, AMD CPUs, it's been a crap shoot and insane.
We need more queues with 1 person limits.
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 12:11:24
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Bots are the worst. Amazon could do a lot more, but why would they? People will keep using their services.
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 12:23:46
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Limiting purchase per account at least. These people are disgusting...of all the ways to make money...you choose a way that hurts people. Socipaths do that...
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 12:29:54
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I don't even bother trying for video cards anymore. Not even bestbuy. I enter the shuffle for my daily L.
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 12:30:40
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How often does Best Buy put out stock? I have to admit I haven't tried there at all...
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 13:00:55
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Much better chance to get from Best Buy compared to Amazon as the bots have alot more trouble there.
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 13:03:03
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Star_Hunter
Much better chance to get from Best Buy compared to Amazon as the bots have alot more trouble there.
This. I have a watcher running and Amazon sells out as soon as cards show up but Best Buy doesn't seem to get as many cards.
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 13:39:12
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Best buy just crashes all the time.
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 13:41:09
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Amazon is probably the hardest retailer to purchase from because of bots, so it doesn't surprise me that those are all from there. Even with their recent addition of CAPTCHA and other measures, by the time I get alerts from discord servers/distill, the gpus are long gone.
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 13:42:09
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bots will buy them all in a blink of an eye, if the vendor doesn't care about it there's not much we can do about it :(
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 13:44:52
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Most of the vendors don't care who is paying them and it's not like anyone is going to boycott Amazon over this to get it changed.
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 13:52:49
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There's a special place in hell for people like this.
Honestly, you can't even call yourself a decent human being when doing this kind of crap. You can tell yourself that you're just a business person capitalizing on the current market all you want but at the end of the day, you're a turd of a person with loose morality.
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 14:37:34
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One of the biggest retailers on the planet can't keep bots defeated? Seems hard to believe
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
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Re: ONE Person Bought All These Graphics Cards... ONE
2021/05/05 14:46:10
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What's the best way to combat bot use? Is there anyone who is doing it right?
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