Scalpers Go Crazy Over New Nvidia Graphics Cards
Yesterday in Japan, there was a real scramble involving 400 people who wanted to be the first to grab the RTX 5080/5090.
Notably, the crowd consisted of 90% foreigners. The most unruly were the scalpers from China— they couldn’t understand Japanese and caused disturbances, even jumping the line from the nearby school’s premises.
In the end, everyone lost: the store had only a few RTX 5090s… They were taken by scalpers who had camped out at the store’s entrance for several days.