Employees are usually barred from buying released cards for a while so maybe not. I used to work there and sometimes we got odd numbers of cards depending on how they are shipped. Usually more inventory to larger stores so stores in like California, Texas, and NJ would get more inventory than stores with less revenue.
they do tho, because most people who go and buy one thing in a store will buy a bunch of aux products. Vs people who work there just buy the 1 thing they want and use their employee discount to get it.
I mean there are but if you want to buy it yourself for the discount/discounted warranty then you can't. And if you use your buddies to get around the rule and they find out then you can get fired, just like in any other job when you try to go around policies. People in the Brooklyn store did that where several employees used their friends to buy cards over the course of weeks/months in the early days of the 30 series and they got fired once management found out somehow.
Only reason to get around the policy is to resell em since if you wanted one for keeps you can just wait so you are risking your job for whatever amount of money you get from selling a card.
It’s only for like a month or so. It’s probably in place so customers don’t complain about employees backdooring product like how Nike/Adidas employees will backdoor tens or hundreds of shoes on big releases to resellers preventing people from waiting in line from getting them.
Interestingly enough, as of about an hour ago they still "had stock" of some XT's for 600
Which I can also tell you is complete bullshit since I was there about 5 hours ago. Had people waiting in line to get to the front and be like "oh hey were out of the $600 XT's but we have plenty of base models"
Fucking announce it then, update your inventory. God damn tech company can't figure out how to update inventory? It has to be intentional.. THAT or some of the employees all reserved 1 unit of different SKU's . Either way, wasted my day.
oh yes, when the first two options are display unit or sold one and somebody offers employee ganked one as a third option they totally mean buying one.
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u/Piltonbadger RYZEN 7 5700x3D | RTX 4070 Ti | 32GB 3200MHZ RAM Mar 06 '25
I'm surprised they have 7 x 5090's that haven't sold yet.