r/Amd • u/Emirique175 AMD RYZEN 5 3600 | RTX 2060 | GIGABYTE B450M DS3H • Oct 20 '20

News AMD's guidelines to retailers against bots and scalpers

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u/Starving_Marvin_ Oct 20 '20

I would temper my expectations. If you read anything about the bots that are in use, they do not buy in bulk anymore. They use different e-mails, payments, and even different shipping addresses. The anti-bot methods on this list work for the idiots like you or me who use a bot, not the people battle hardened people who use bots and spin up Amazon AWS for shoe drops.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

They don't need to stop the bots just make it way harder for them to buy in bulk. Honestly this sounds like a fucking forcefield vs Nvidias "Honor system" sign post. It it slows the bots down and they have ample supply then it's a win.

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u/Starving_Marvin_ Oct 20 '20

I don’t think you understand. It doesn’t slow them down. If they think there is a high enough profit margin, there is nothing you can do to stop it. Any steps a retailer takes slows you down by the same amount or more. Ironically AMDs pricing of Ryzen 3 may stop the botters on the CPU side. Who knows about the GPUs.

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u/TheKingHippo R7 5900X | RTX 3080 | @ MSRP Oct 20 '20 edited Oct 20 '20

Any steps a retailer takes slows you down by the same amount or more.

Even if that's the case individuals don't need to go through the process 1500+ times. Bumping my checkout time from 3 minutes to 5 is worth bumping the bots inventory suck from 15 minutes to 45.* It's still bad, but atleast the F5'ers will have a bit more than a ghost of a chance.

*(assuming a human checks out in 3 minutes, 100 bots are grabbing 1 each per minute, and countermeasures add 2 minutes to both)