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eBay users are getting back at graphics card scalping bots by listing pictures of the RTX 5090 for $2000, occasionally framed
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/ebay-users-are-getting-back-at-graphics-card-scalping-bots-by-listing-pictures-of-the-rtx-5090-for-usd2000-occasionally-framed/
Another graphics card launch filled with bots, scalpers, and 300% markups. Nvidia's hotly anticipated GPUs, the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, went on sale this week and scalpers have bought as many as they can to sell on for higher prices. Yet there are some seemingly looking to stop them from getting away with it.

To catch out any bots hoovering up these sales, eBay users are now posting fake listings for these graphics cards to trick them.

In both the US and the UK, you can find tonnes of listings for what appears to be an RTX 5090 around the card's MSRP. Many of these also come with a light warning to 'read description' at the end. This clues you into the strange game being played here.

In the description sits a disclaimer that these sellers are actually emailing pictures of RTX cards to unsophisticated bots or even more unsophisticated scalpers, people looking to take advantage of the low supply, high demand situation to resell graphics cards for a pretty penny.

The article is longer than that, and even mentions a couple of successes.