In an ideal world that might work. There’s other backdoors you can use such as suppliers to get hold of GPUS.
For example:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqUjiP9XMAAi01X?format=jpg&name=medium
Those types of orders get bough and sold before they hit retailers. Just gotta find a way to get a hold of someone in that circle and get yourself one. That’s how I ended up getting a VEGA 64 for much cheaper than retail.
Regardless of what you have said, Aquorius still has a valid suggestion. You’re not wrong though. ie: Both your suggestion and the suggestion that Aquorius made are both valid.
Ultimately, the question in which Madmargret asked has been answered. Supply and demand.
Aquorius isn’t wrong at all. The advice is very sound.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the 1st time we’ve had to fight for cards like this and going through proper channels is the hardest way to get a hold of cards.
Agreed if you know someone or can navigate the API (assuming they haven’t remove access to a function) you can just snag cards left and right.
Pretty sure Amazon hasn’t remove access to this function on their API and if you really wanted to, you can get X item with a basic bot.
I was able to get a 5600x, 5800x, and 5900x + 2 rtx 3080 with the notification discord. TBH the 5800x is pretty easy to get compare to the other hot items.