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I remember how livid reddit dipshits would get over pirating movies and games and shit. Motherfuckers, everyone that actually did the work has been paid already, probably a shitty wage at that. The only people getting rich off the box office sales are the parasitic 2kg sacks of shit stuffed into a 1kg sack.

I feel exactly the same. I'm so very grateful Hexbear exists as a reprieve from the incredibly reactionary English speaking internet. The one and only reliable forum where we can rest easy and know we won't be judged or insulted according to the standards of capitalist hegemony.

The terminally boot addicted, paypig assholes of reddit are such an underrated element of why reddit's radioactive cesspit of a community is so insufferable. This thread would have been removed by mods if posted anywhere on reddit but r/illegalifeprotips (which I am absolutely stunned the reddit admins have continued to let exist despite having effectively become r/shoplifting 2.0 but with a much broader criminal subject manner).

The icing on the cake is that these people just get more and more emboldened as reddit hemorrhages leftists and continuously lurches right. More and more often these days I've noticed that comments complaining about Nvidia's extortionate pricing tend to result in these freaks crawling out of the woodwork to literally outright mock and shame people for being too poor to afford mid-end GPUs anymore. Reddit has always been bad, but holy shit, I don't remember reactionaries being quite this mask off about these things back when r/CTH was around.

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After thinking it over for a little while, this seems like the way to do it. The weights should be inside the RTX box itself in place of the card, right?

Nah. The only cards affected by this are high end workstation cards and the 4090. There is some scalping of very specifically only 4090s already in-country which are being purchased and repurposed into RTX 6000 Ada server cards for use in AI server farms.

The reason that 4090s are so expensive is because a huge amount of stock was redirected to China before the ban went into effect in mid-November. Anyone in the west trying to scalp, especially on 4080 or anything lower is going to be in for a very funny 2020 toilet paper scalper time.

Nvidia sent about a 6-month supply of the AD102 chips to continue making 6000 Ada and 4090 cards until the 4090D variant chips are ready, but AIB manufacturers are taking advantage of the situation and massively increasing prices of units while also focusing all manufacturing into workstation cards. They're also repurposing gaming GPUs into more expensive workstation cards, to ensure that there will be a huge amount of the 6000 Ada cards for likely years to come, and gamers are just gonna have to stick with the 4090 they have or get a 4090D which will be slightly less powerful.

What I've heard previously is they are much more likely to check with electronics worth several hundred dollars, something about how such returns automatically get flagged to be inspected separately.

That said, I'm wondering if maybe the GPU isn't the component I should be doing this with. Perhaps it'd be more foolproof to just swap the IHS of an i9 and Celeron of the same socket and return the Celeron wearing the i9's serial number. I've never heard any stories about Amazon literally testing parts in a test bench before.

I remember that thread and if I was going to do this it'd be with this method. Maybe it'd be feasible to swap out the cooler or forge the little serial number sticker on the actual card?

They did for a bit, but now crypto mining on cards is dead anyway. The high prices now are just Nvidia's greed (and a little bit foolishness, they over ordered iirc).

That's what I was thinking, but I'm unsure if good standing is enough for them to not check the serial number on a product worth over two grand. Maybe swapping something worth less than like 500 dollars would go unnoticed, but more than two grand feels like it's really pushing the limit here, especially when felony theft charges could very well be the worst case scenario.

I'd give this a shot with a cheaper card if I could figure out how to flawlessly swap the serial number label.

They'll really, actually refund for this? I figured that in cases where the package is actually stolen from your doorstep that Amazon would just tell you to pound sand by saying it's your fault you didn't secure the thing soon enough.

Will they require a police report? I'd loath to talk to the fucking cops about anything, but hey, if it saves me nearly a thousand dollars on a GPU, then maybe I should just get over it for few minutes to do so. I guess I could simply be as vague as possible in filling out the report. If the police really wanted to, they could probably get permission to look at my neighbors ring cameras, some of which probably have a view of my front door, but I guess that's a moot point because the cops aren't going to put in anywhere near that kind of effort into solving a petty theft when they could be spending their time on more productive pursuits like shooting family dogs and planting drugs on black people.