eh I have a hard time getting mad at companies that have been scrapping by for months now all of a sudden given a golden opportunity to make some profit. Especially when they get sent a small handful of actual product to sell.... and are probably finding it even harder to sell the stuff they do have in stock right now. Hard to blame a few employees for wanting to try and at least hit a bit of profit. Having worked in supply type companies I know most employees salaries are tied to profit in at least some way. I worked 7 or 8 years in management for a fortune 500 supply company where I was paid very handsome commissions that dropped to damn near nothing if my margin dropped under a specific point. I have a feeling these employees where ensuring their commission/bonus cheques where going to actually come at all by goosing a bit of profit out of the small hadnful of stock they could actually sell. Good on them... someone spent the money, clearly deciding the price was a fair one.
If you want to be upset with anyone be upset with Nvidia... who destroyed the market for 2000 cards.... knowing full well they didn't have anywhere close to the stock required to fill the gap. Talk about fucking over your supply chain, and possibly the worst time financially in every players history. Yes they got the scoop on AMD by a month.... and screwed over 1,000s of employees in the chain for a short lived minor marketing win. Right now with the down turn in sales... and the strain still on the supply chain, purposely setting your partners up to be dealing with insane stock shortages (knowing that their previous top margin parts would be halved in value) for 1-3 months is an asshole thing to do. Right now hard launches are the only expectable way a true partner would behave. (having said that I hope AMD has really been building stock on Ryzen and Radeon parts for a proper hard launch)
If you want to be upset with anyone be upset with Nvidia... who destroyed the market for 2000 cards.... knowing full well they didn't have anywhere close to the stock required to fill the gap. Talk about fucking over your supply chain, and possibly the worst time financially in every players history. Yes they got the scoop on AMD by a month.... and screwed over 1,000s of employees in the chain for a short lived minor marketing win. Right now with the down turn in sales... and the strain still on the supply chain, purposely setting your partners up to be dealing with insane stock shortages (knowing that their previous top margin parts would be halved in value) for 1-3 months is an asshole thing to do. Right now hard launches are the only expectable way a true partner would behave. (having said that I hope AMD has really been building stock on Ryzen and Radeon parts for a proper hard launch)