newegg allowing scalpers to sell New AMD chips.

Aspryin · November 8, 2020

This is me being a bit angry and blowing off some steam but here it is:

It looks to me that NEWEGG.com is allowing scalpers to sell brand new Ryzen 7 5800x chips (from china) at a massively inflated price on their site. this is the US site so it is not a wrong currency and you can see the newegg listing in the lower right as "sold out" - is there an explanation for this other than people being A..Hats.

At the end of the day.. a real crappy customer experience and dangerous. My wife almost bough this knowing I was looking for it and she "found it in stock on a trusted site." and who knows it if is even real.

(link to the BS)

https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-7-5800x/p/N82E16819113665?Item=9SIA4RECNZ3223

Wheresmehammer · November 8, 2020

It's not Newegg's responsibility.

BlueChinchillaEatingDorito · November 8, 2020

58 minutes ago, Aspryin said:

This is be being a bit angry and blowing off some steam but here it is:

It looks to me that NEWEGG.com is allowing scalpers to sell brand new Ryzen 7 5800x chips (from china) at a massively inflated price on their site. this is the US site so it is not a wrong currency and you can see the newegg listing in the lower right as "sold out" - is there an explanation for this other than people being A..Hats.

At the end of the day.. a real crappy customer experience and dangerous. My wife almost bough this knowing I was looking for it and she "found it in stock on a trusted site." and who knows it if is even real.

(link to the BS)

https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-7-5800x/p/N82E16819113665?Item=9SIA4RECNZ3223

Many online retailers allow third-party sellers to list items on their platform. There's nothing new here. Consumers need to start taking responsibility and stop blindly clicking the "Buy now" button. It happens on Amazon, Newegg, even Best Buy.

The only bullshit here is consumers' lack of competence when shopping online. When shopping in a physical store they're always trying to get cashiers to match the price to another competitor. Online? Well this is how they shop: