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What could be done to stop bots for the 50 series launch?

Honestly if you have the ability to set an alarm and be able to check out inside 15 minutes you are getting one of these on launch day. This upgrade is a lot more useless than the 4090 was. See you on the day.
 
Howling said:
OC could just do what they've done before. List them at some insane price like £5000 but have a discount code on the forum to drop the price. Sure, some bots would still pay £5k but I'm not exactly unhappy with the idea that they get that ripped off :P
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I was going to say this. Refine it by giving a unique, one time use, discount code to those forum users expressing an interest in buying.
 
Honestly I expect the prices of these to be similar to 40 series and will no doubt sell out fast. Bots are a problem but you can limit one per customer and a captcha and or similar anti bot system. Block same ip's requesting more than 1 card. Nothing is going to be ideal and ultimately someone will suffer who might want 2 cards.
 
Howling said:
OC could just do what they've done before. List them at some insane price like £5000 but have a discount code on the forum to drop the price. Sure, some bots would still pay £5k but I'm not exactly unhappy with the idea that they get that ripped off :P
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That's actually a really good idea. Wonder why that wasn't implemented for the 40 series? I guess it's a lot of money to deny in back orders.
 
OcUK can easily avoid this problem by not selling them and instead giving them to loyal forum members (for safekeeping).

Without wanting to sound like a martyr, I don’t mind chipping in for the community on this one. What can I say… I love you guys.
 
Howling said:
OC could just do what they've done before. List them at some insane price like £5000 but have a discount code on the forum to drop the price. Sure, some bots would still pay £5k but I'm not exactly unhappy with the idea that they get that ripped off :P
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I’d like to see more companies doing similar things.

Sony , in some regions (not the uk annoyingly) restricted the sale of limited edition consoles to only PS accounts with 10 hours plus registered play time in the last year. Not perfect but good to see steps being taken to restrict blatant scalping.

The inflated price and discount code for forum members/existing customers is a good idea.

Maybe there are uk laws which prevent a retailer restricting sale of goods or inflating the RRP price though?
 
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silvagti said:
The inflated price and discount code for forum members/existing customers is a good idea but I wonder if there are legal issues (profiteering ) with a reseller selling goods at above the manufacturers recommended retail price?
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They did it for the 3080 and I don't recall them getting punished for it so I assume it's fine?
 
There are different types of bot those. Sniper bots to jump on a sale fast that you can feed stuff in to and bots that just buy on mass. Neither are a good thing but it wouldn't be hard for a forum member to get the code and then a bot can use the code.
 
The thing with loyal forum members early access is their are no doubt loyal shop only customers too.

I think early 30 minute access might be best of both worlds, with strict account control. But that been said it would be a lot of time and money for OCUK software wise for not much gain.

Randomised que windows probably the "fairest".
 
Everyone going on about bots as if they care about bots.

You couldn't care less as long as you get one for the lowest possible price.

If someone wanted to kill the bots then make all gains from reselling impossible and ask the public to set the price they'll pay.

Every individual card sold in a legally binding auction, 100 lots a day, bidding opens at 2pm at RRP, closes after 24h.

No one is about to bot a ramping auction price and the shop gets 100% of all possible reselling gains. Extra hassle and costs from running the auction covered by the extra profit.

Don't ask me about magical ways to guarantee that scarce product gets sold as if it wasn't scarce, at RRP without immediately being resold for a higher street price :p
 
The best way to stop bots is to let them buy every 50 series GPU in the world. Then for people to refuse to buy them so scalpers get into serious financial difficulties. The 60 series will be bot free.

Scalpers would suffer and learn the hard way.
 
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CuriousTomCat said:
The best way to stop bots is to let them buy every 50 series GPU in the world. Then for people to refuse to buy them so scalpers get into serious financial difficulties. The 60 series will be bot free.

Scalpers would suffer and learn the hard way.
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People would have to have some serious restraint and I think the scalpers could just return them in that case.

Restraint is the easy answer, but it's a shame genuine customers can't get someone thing as soon as its available if they so wish.
 
Remember when you only needed to pay £500-£600 for the top end GPU we thought that was expensive. eg 980ti. Anything over £1000 is stupid money nowadays. I bawked at the idea of paying £949 for my 3090. It will be my last high spend GPU period. If you can afford the 5090 for £2000 or whatever it appears at all power to your wallet not one to be-grudge your spending power but from a personal standpoint last few years I've got off the upgrade roundabout.

I doubt this time you have to worry about bots there will be plenty of stock.
 
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