There is nothing new in the tech world that people are snapping up copies of an interesting product. It's already a little more surprising when the product in question is billed for more than 530, or even more than 560 euros.
Worse still, while stock shortages are widespread, the next arrivals scheduled for the beginning of next week have already been reserved and most stores are no longer taking orders for this product. Certainly, technophiles have certainly been champing at the bit for several months with the somewhat disappointing releases of Raptor Lake Refresh/Arrow Lake chips from Intel and, to a lesser extent, Ryzen 9000X from AMD.
However, these widespread ruptures also seem linked to the phenomenon of scalping. Scalpers are those individuals who buy as many copies as possible of an expected/in-demand product and then take advantage of the demand to resell them for more, much more expensive. The evidence is not yet numerous, but we can already see Ryzen 7 9800X3D being sold for 700, 800 or even 900 dollars on eBay for example.
It's difficult for resellers to fight against this phenomenon, so just one piece of advice: don't buy these processors and wait – of course, it's not always easy – for stocks to come back. This is the only way to bring down the scalpers and stop this practice.
