- Zotac has fired up a scheme through its US Discord channel
- Active members of the community can enter a draw to win the chance to buy an RTX 5090 or 5080
- It seems that this plan helps in the good fight to beat scalpers
Scramble for Nvidia’s new graphics card has been an unpleasant affair (again), especially with the RTX 5090, as stock of the flagship GPU has been even more barely than the RTX 5080 – but Zotac has a plan to help real buyers (as against Scalpers) in the US .
Videocardz reports that Zotacs Discord Channel in the US is running a “Priority Access Campaign solely for our loyal community” to give active members an opportunity to buy an RTX 5090 or 5080 graphics card.
It is a draw system with a chance to buy as the price, and there are some conditions attached as you would expect. In particular, a clause that every Discord member must have been actively engaged in discussions, challenges and the like in order to be justified. Anyone who joins spam a few three-word messages in hopes of getting a purchase, not (or should not) be considered.
Any kind of “manipulation” or “cheating” is also not tolerated, Zotac says. In addition, the board manufacturer will keep an eye on resell activity, with serial numbers of GPUs purchased and are busy, and a threat to publish any scalper reselling their graphics card.
Analysis: Zotac shows the way
Completely how Zotac can police, like the whole rules of the game of dealers, are not ready, and probably not possible, but still – I must admire the attitude taken here against Scalps and Bots.
These dishonest characters get any low stock hardware launch much more of a nightmare than it should be, so efforts that Zotac scheme has interconnected here must be welcomed.
Do you wonder how the Zotac plan has played so far? According to the Reddit thread that Videocardz picked up on this development, Zotac’s Discord Channel has witnessed a flood of people who sign up since the message.
So it will definitely drive more traffic for the channel, clearly, but if all a new member does is spam waste, they must be wiped out and unjustified for Blackwell buying buns.
Those who were active members before the message have apparently got a private channel with separate draws for the most important, with much greater chances of winning (as 25%, compared to less than 1% for the most important draws, but we get to Know that we take it with some spices).
It all sounds good enough organized in short.
Why not all graphics card manufacturers go down this route? As Videocardz points out, Zotac is one of the smaller clothes from the larger manufacturers (if you get what I mean) and it is probably much more headache for some of the biggest operations in the GPU sphere to run a scheme like this like this .
Still, it’s worth the depletion of Defense against Scalping more broadly when it comes to popular launches such as RTX 5000 GPUs worth considering, for both retailers and NVIDIA’s board -making partners. Unfortunately, what we’ve seen elsewhere is official to ask prices from graphics card manufacturers even creeping up or even jumping up, in response to thin supply in the face of huge demand – so what would be a start is Don’t do this please.
We try to help as best we can, through our guides on where we can buy an RTX 5080 today and also our RTX 5090 graphics card finds as well. Good luck out there, GPU hunters, but of course, if you are already at Zotac Discord, get yourself in the lottery there.
