AMD Learns from NVIDIA and issues guidelines to retailers to prevent Radeon RX 6000-series scalping

[Nuclear powered vinegar]

If AMD is worried, that give me some idea of how high of a demand there will be..

[MageTank]

On 10/23/2020 at 12:31 PM, dilpickle said:

You would think so but many retailers just see a sale as a sale and don't care who is buying.

 

Just look at the panic buying when the lockdown started. We saw pics of people walking out with 4 shopping carts full of toiler paper and leaving nothing for everyone else. You would think the store would put a limit on purchases. They might piss off a few people but they would make hundreds more happy. But they didn't care because they make the same money no matter who is buying.

Can't really consider that an apples to apples comparison though. Not too many attachments one can attach to toilet paper. If a store offered me a warranty or replacement plan for my toilet paper, I'd be pretty concerned... lol.

[Mark Kaine]

On 10/25/2020 at 9:54 AM, Nuclear powered vinegar said:

If AMD is worried, that give me some idea of how high of a demand there will be..

AMD is just being 'the good guy' that's completely irrelevant to demand, imo. 

 

Not saying there won't be demand depending on how good these cards actually are, but in the end neither AMD nor Nvidia care, a sale is a sale. 

[dilpickle]

7 hours ago, MageTank said:

Can't really consider that an apples to apples comparison though. Not too many attachments one can attach to toilet paper. If a store offered me a warranty or replacement plan for my toilet paper, I'd be pretty concerned... lol.

You overestimate the market for high end video cards. A store like Newegg sells at most a few thousand of these. Its not enough for them to care about implementing special rules or worry about losing customers. They make most of their money from business customers.