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Amazon Is Allegedly Canceling GPU Orders And, In Rare Cases, Closing Accounts For Purchasing Compute Hardware; Tim Sweeney Also A Victim Of This Practice (wccftech.com)
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[–] 7 points 1 week ago

Things that make you go Hmmmm.....

Is there a shortage, or is amazon hoarding, or is this just an administrative fuck up?

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    [–] 2 points 6 days ago

    Easy. Stop buying their shit.

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    [–] 57 points 1 week ago

    Yep, called it. Prepare to logon to BezosNet on your amzthin client with your eye scan and fingerprint and video (on at all times to keep The Children safe of course).

    They will just ban your forms of payment for computer hardware so they own all the compute and information. Hold on to your books people.

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    [–] 47 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    AMD runs better on linux. Stop feeding nvidia

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  • [+] -7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Yeah, but I run local AI models and don't want the experience to suck ass.

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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 1 week 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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    • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Amazon is a horrifically unethical company. Why is anyone trying to buy anything from them in the first place?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

    Because I'm very poor and Amazon is cheap? Like, if you don't want products produced with human suffering you have to pay a pretty sizable premium.

    Maybe you're an exception, but how much of the consumer goods you buy do you actually know how ethically sourced they are?

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    • [–] 4 points 1 week ago*

    Have fun trying to get every competitor to join you on this psychotic tactic. And if you are successful it preventing people from getting computers, you give people no reason to give a shit about these places that produce them. For America that is..

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