Scalper bots attack Ryzen 5000 CPUs in the USA
Source: Hardware Luxx added 09th Nov 2020
The term Scalper-Bots may not be too familiar to many PC users in this country, but will be used in Future, as long as manufacturers and trading partners do nothing, will certainly gain more and more awareness. So-called scalper bots have so far mainly been used to buy event tickets online and use automated methods and scripts to secure large quantities of tickets and complete the purchase process in a fraction of a second. The purchased tickets are then resold with high profits, so many honest customers are left behind and in many cases even pay twice as much.
Scalping is a well-known technique that has so far mainly been used in Ticketing industry and was most lucrative there. Since well-known manufacturers have presented their products in large shows and also stylized and praised them via social media, more and more resellers have sensed their chance for maximum profits and are now increasingly using bot programs when purchasing on the days of publication in the PC hardware sector.
Especially in the US, scalping bots and overpriced resales are at work and become part of a new reality when it comes to the introduction of new PC hardware. The best-known example is NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 series where entire stocks are sucked up within minutes using the bounce alert technology and short Time later they were resold at double the price.
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The same fate now befell AMD’s new Zen 3 processor generation. Bots used by resellers have farmed the stocks of Ryzen 2017 CPUs with the help of highly developed scalping services, only to get the auctioned goods quickly at exorbitantly expensive prices to be offered for resale on eBay. A Ryzen 9 – 5950 X-CPU worth 800 US -Dollars are offered here for example at a price of 1 30 US dollars and sometimes even more. )
In this country, too, the same picture is currently emerging, albeit not as drastically. Therefore, ASUS is now urgently warning that the first stocks of the hotly anticipated Radeon RX – 6800 – and RX – 6900 – Graphics cards may not reach all real private individuals or end customers. In October, AMD issued guidelines to its trading partners to prevent possible scalping. This calls for measures such as real-time bot detection, complex CAPTCHA implementations (math, images, etc.) and a queue-based reservation system to ensure sales to end users.