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[–] 23 points 1 week ago (1 child)

As much as I dislike Amazon, this looks like 1 user having the issue. Tim Sweeney is on Bezos' side and wants to rent compute time to us plebs. I doubt his canceled order of 2 GPUs means anything other than an attempt to get us to think he's on our side. I think our future involves owning nothing and being happy, but that will probably be after Nvidia and Amazon collude to keep the hardware from us, not Amazon refusing to sell Nvidia's latest tech.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago

    It's not an uncommon issue, but it's also not unreasonable that the vendor supplying the card (not amazon) is fucking with end users as price changes come up.

    Vendor buys a 32GB 5090 for $6500, you order the card for $7500 on Monday, the price on 5090's explodes Tuesday morning and now the card is going for $9500. An 'issue' comes up with your order. they can take one person bitching about their bait and switch for 2 grand.

    From the times I've had to order work hardware, I don't think I've ever had any video cards that were actually sourced form amazon, it's always a vendor.

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