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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by ineedasername on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @10:42PM (#29103132)
This. Buyers will have no way of knowing the card they buy-- at 2x retail-- was stolen. This penalizes buyers in a marketplace that doesn't have the structure in place to ensure 90% of its product doesn't end up in the hands of scalpers.
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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by randomswede on Friday November 05, 2021 @04:37AM (#29116770)
Expect anything bought from a scalper to be stolen. I thought that was "you're buying from a scalper 101" (or possibly "lol").

People buying from scalpers is why scalpers can continue to exist. There's pretty much no way of stopping that, outside of making scalping illegal, then strictly enforce that. But, then, that pretty much kills the first-sale doctrine and I am not sure that is a good trade-off.

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