Ryzen 5000 CPUs sell out in minutes, appear on eBay with inflated prices

[BobHome]

Blame the miners, they buying these CPU's because the CPU mining XMR makes its ROI in 12months

If only there was something eBay could do to prevent the pirates from posting their ill-gotten loot....

 

[Bamda]

Idk why they don't limit like 3 per customer, seems like they had way more stock then Nvidia from reading comments. Most people who tried to get one on release got one. I think scalpers are going to be quite disappointed in the next few weeks.

I got one, but sadly the MB I want is not out yet. WTF Asus! Hurry up!

 

[Bamda]

With the video cards, the performance improvement over the previous generation appeared to be 60%, but here it's only 20%, so I'm somewhat surprised the same scenario has played out. Possibly it's because the coronavirus has inflated demand, with more people spending more time at home with their computers. I upgraded last year, so I'm not in the market for a few more years.

Computers are selling at record levels. So this is not a surprise!

 

[Bamda]

I'm more concerned about why there is not an orderly process where I can easily submit my back-order, receive a reasonable estimate of when my turn will be, and spend no further time on it.

There was a time when I considered the whole hunt and F5 and competition maybe a fun part of being an enthusiast, but I'm over it.

There will come a time when these parts and the new GPUs are easily available on shelves, but if that time is months from now it will also be that much closer to the next-next-generation. For discretionary upgraders, that might result in a skipped generation where a better process could have resulted in a sale.

I feel like these manufacturers are being foolish for mismanaging their rollouts. Apple can manage the global launch of iPhones that sell in much higher day one volume, why can't they?

Apple is at the TOP of the food chain, they have very deep pockets that AMD cannot compete with. They purchase massive manufacturing capacity from TSMC years in advance. So when the CPUs are ready they can start production and build a stockpile much faster than AMD can.

 

[Bamda]

This has nothing to do with AMD, or Intel, or Nvidia. This is all about scalpers taking advantage of ways to buy out the products from retailers, create a shortage of supply and high demand, and then resell them for inflated prices. The scalpers are not buying these units directly from the manufacturer, so there is no real legal recourse for those manufacturers to pursue (that would in any way impact the situation, that is) - this is a retailer issue, plain and simple. If you want to complain and lose faith in a company, put that negativity where it belongs and complain about the retail outlets. But, be aware that even with the safeguards many retailers try to implement, the scalpers always seem to find ways around it to sweep the inventory of newly launching products.

The saddest part of this is that this story would never even exist if it weren't for the fact that there are enough people out there with more money than common sense, who are stupidly paying exorbitant prices for new tech just to be the first ones to have it. If you feed the scalpers, they'll keep coming back - if people were actually smart and refused to pay over-inflated prices for parts, scalpers would go broke and the trend would be broken.

Well stated. Thank you for sharing some much needed common sense!

 

[Bamda]

People must really be broke because the Micro Center near me has a ton of every model in stock right now and no signs they are moving. Maybe once a few savvy folks realize, they'll buy some up to scalp for a profit.

I walked into an MC and purchased one. I must be blessed!

 

[Bamda]

AMD is going to resupply their inventory every week unlike Nvidia.

In 10 days it will be 2 months since Nvidia released the 3080 and the stock level is still nonexistent! Time will tell how fast AMD can restock their CPUs but my money is on AMD.

 

[Bamda]

My local store still has 5600x and 5800x in stock at the moment.

https://www.umart.com.au/AMD-CPU_646C.html

Most of the older 3000 series got price cuts, 3900x is now just $30 more than the new 5800x. Oh and if the prices seem high, they're in AU dollars which is worth 0.7 US at the moment and it also includes 10% GST (which I believe is one of the lowest in the world?).

I can clearly see that the 5600X is in stock if I want to pick one up for the fair price of $469 AU Dollars.

 

[Bamda]

And of course that fails to work also. The Soviets couldn't stop scalping and black marketeering even with life sentences in Siberian hard-labor gulags; you think we can do better? Try as you might, you can't overrule the laws of economics.

Well, there is always GREED one of those seven deadly sins.

 

[janon2000]

People need to *stop* conflating the low end 5600 and 5800 with the enthusiast 5900 and 5950 in order to make excuses for AMD.

99.99% of people saying "I JUST GOT ONE!!!!!!!" are talking about the *5600*. Big deal. The 3080 and 3090 are the equivalent of the *5900* and *5950*. If you want to buy the absolute lowest end part of this new generation, then congratulations, maybe you'll get one.

The parts that *created* the hype have *not* existed since 6:00am and 25 seconds on the 5th. Yes MicroCenter has gotten 1 or 2 in sporadically since then, but big deal. They get 30x0 series in as well. I got my *3090* that way. But I *have not* been able to get a 59xx. There. Is. No. Difference! Meanwhile, the online giants cant even *guess* when stock might come in and people who somehow managed to get an order through at 6:00:05 11/5 on Amazon are being given *Nov 25th* delivery dates.

So *if* AMD somehow manages to make the 5900 and 5950 readily available in 2020 *then* they get some kind of kudos vs Nvidia. Until then they are *JUST AS BAD*

 

[Endymio]

99.99% of people saying "I JUST GOT ONE!!!!!!!" are talking about the *5600*.

I see you get your statistics from here.