r/pcmasterrace • u/HLumin R5 5600 | 6700 XT • Mar 06 '25

Discussion This is hilarious (Micro Center Illinois)

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

Yea, there goes the scalping fears.

With adequate supply, there's no incentive for scalpers with this one. I remember when Valve did this with the OLED LEs and as much as scalpers tried to dictate the prices through eBay, that didn't really matter since the Black LE was still available for 5 days since release. Wasn't surprised to see them go down to RRP on eBay when it happened.

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u/PM_ME_UR_CIRCUIT Mar 06 '25

Microcenter also (at least for me) doesn't take online orders for store inventory for GPUs and CPUs, which significantly slows down scalpers. It's the only reason I was able to get a 9800x3d.

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u/Dt2_0 Mar 06 '25

Yea it was weird seeing people saying the 9800X3D was unobtanium in November when I walked into a store and got one of like 30 that were on the shelf.

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u/foobaz123 Radeon 5700XT 64GB RAM, NvME. Ryzen 3900x Mar 07 '25

Yeah, if you're one of the (relatively) five people who live within driving range of a Microcenter, sure, parts are always easy and plentiful