Gato84
Great post kougar. Some GPUs actually are reaching retailers. In fact, Amazon restocks EVGA graphic cards every week, but it is completely impossible to get one because of the scalpers using bots. If others receive so much stock, why do the queue here at EVGA move up so slowly?

AlexP11223
Can they even do that? They probably have some kind of long-term contracts.

JGLuxe
I'm not 100% sure because I've never ran a business, But in my opinion, it wouldn't be smart to stop selling to big name stores or resellers (Stores, not scalpers) in general, as right now the reason for the shortage is the hype for the 30 series and the limited supply due to import laws (IIRC?).
 
If they were to stop supplying cards to those stores, they might not be as interested in placing orders after this hype dies down and not everyone goes directly to the manufacturers site to purchase cards, I would think the majority is done in person and local stores or at places like Amazon and Newegg online.

Dendra
As long as they are selling gpus at 3x higher prices in EU, there is no reason for them to care.

pschueller

AlexP11223
Can they even do that? They probably have some kind of long-term contracts.

^ This, even if they did prioritize their own online store it would probably take forever to see the results. :(

the_Scarlet_one

The price changed last month,

Nereus

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Wow.. that's pretty shocking when one person has 72 EVGA 3060 Ti XC cards available as a single bulk lot on eBay (and how many more do they have beyond that?), yet only 96 known individuals have been able to get that same card via the queue system since the launch months ago. I would love to know who and how that person got hold of that many cards, and EVGA should want to know as well.
 
As far as PPCS goes (or any other EVGA reseller), they have an EBay store just like EVGA does, nothing wrong with that, but the prices and availability should be consistent across all their outlet platforms imo. If they are marking prices close to MSRP on their own website and saying no stock, while having stock available and heavily marked up on their EBay presence, then I would consider that scalping. If their pricing and product availability were consistent across all their outlet platforms, then there is nothing EVGA can do about it, that's capitalism and the law of supply and demand, and it's completely legal.
 
Personally I would avoid doing business in the future with a company that practices extreme scalping or extreme price markups though. 
 
EVGA should really consider having a clause added barring this sort of behavior in all future contracts and contract renewals. If EVGA want to retain a good name, they should want their products to reach as wide an audience as possible, not have almost everything disappear down some black hole likely ending up with just a handful of greedy miners.
 
In saying all that, I believe EVGA are doing what they can, but this unprecedented demand has created so many new issues that it takes time to combat them all, it's like playing whack-a-mole. EVGA seems to at least be trying to do something about it (unlike all other NVidia resellers) but clearly there's still work to be done, particularly with such egregious examples as the one posted in the OP of this thread.
 

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