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Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital (mashable.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 63 points 8 months ago* (8 children)

They could garner good will by setting aside a % of their stock to sell to red-blooded people at a lower price..

If someone walks into a grocery store before a storm and wants to buy 10 pallets of water, the store tells them to fuck off.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Then scalpers would buy them and jack the price up.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    limit to one per customer per day like most tcg sellers do with pokemon and magic.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I’m sure there’s ways around that. Different cards, PO boxes, email addresses, names. Even if they had only 4 ways of buying that’s still almost 30 buys a week times however many scalpers there are.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    obviously there will be a handful of people pulling that shit but every system basically assumes that 10% of the people using the system will use it unethically to their advantage. just balance around that, as the vast majority aren't exploitive scumbags.

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