That's insane man. Can you somehow just not have live stock feeds active at all so the bots don't get triggered?
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti to be "available" on June 3rd, RTX 3070Ti on June 10th
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It's not like we haven't been trying to do that since mid-March
easier said than done.
Without the stock feed the website thinks there's no stock (that's what triggers the "available soon" message which replaces the buy button)
And there is no way around that I assume, I mean you would have already thought of it if so lol
We tried and we ended up with nearly a thousand orders (all placed in about 15 minutes), mostly from bots, which we had to cancel manually, this unfortunately meant cancelling some genuine customer orders because, as I said before, it's impossible to discern the difference once the order is on our system.
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Haha, 100 posts is a bit too easy to reach surely. Yes, I know I'm doing myself out of a chance at a card maybe, but it's not as if I have 37 more posts of relevant material to entertain and amuse you all with.
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That a reference to the accidental stock upload? I was one of those genuine ones but I understand now as I understood at the time. I'd have sent in a blood sample if I'd had the choice though
Oh dude that blows.That a reference to the accidental stock upload? I was one of those genuine ones but I understand now as I understood at the time. I'd have sent in a blood sample if I'd had the choice though
This is another problem for me. No access to anything online during work hours. I’m only going to be able to buy something at lunch, after 5pm, or at weekends. Other than buying from a scalper, there’s practically zero chance of me managing to get a card without a pre order, or a random chance draw/raffle to buy.
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Eurgh. Sucks that even the tech solutions don't help. That being the case, I genuinely appreciate you guys doing what you can to put the cards into the hands of actual users. Even if it completely screws me over in the process :'(
Same here, I'm way down on the list of people likely to end up with one from OC. Sadly my only play is to hang on for as long as I can then just pay 2k for one on eBay after a beer or two and a few games of game that gives me performance troubles. I'll just suddenly decide there and then that not having to experience performance issues will be worth 2k, and that's just how it'll go down for me.
How many posts are they wanting? Fair play to them trying to avoid the bots.
It's 1000 posts for MM but like I said, MM access won't anywhere near guarantee you a GPU so it's almost moot.
Changing the listings to the 3D Printers page seemed manageable.
If you change the place (don't tell us yet) where they are listed minutes before launch, bots will be sitting on the wrong page. Don't tell anyone where they are on the website before 2pm Thursday and then announce in the forum.
Well, that's my best idea anyway.
Interesting idea, don't bots rely on visual cues on a webpage in order for them to function properly, maybe you need to randomise where the buy button pops up, like an old DVD players screensaver, have it bouncing around all over the screen lol Outsmart the bot.
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Just to add another suggestion that might not be too difficult to implement (luckily I managed to snag a 3080ti last week so I'm not in the game):
How about instead of updating the listing page by marking the item as available and letting bots just add it to the basket, you instead update it to include a link to a new, previously unlisted, product page. You could obfuscate the link, or embed it into an image.
This could confuse the bots, whilst still being fairly accessible to normal buyers. No need to be a forum member, for example, as long as the product page has obvious next steps. It also feels fairly straightforward to implement without too much overhead.
This doesn't stop the scalping of course but based on what's been said it feels as though the main scalping problem is to do with the bots.
EDIT: Looks like I was too slow and SkillTim beat me to it!
How about instead of updating the listing page by marking the item as available and letting bots just add it to the basket, you instead update it to include a link to a new, previously unlisted, product page. You could obfuscate the link, or embed it into an image.
This could confuse the bots, whilst still being fairly accessible to normal buyers. No need to be a forum member, for example, as long as the product page has obvious next steps. It also feels fairly straightforward to implement without too much overhead.
This doesn't stop the scalping of course but based on what's been said it feels as though the main scalping problem is to do with the bots.
EDIT: Looks like I was too slow and SkillTim beat me to it!
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