Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital

chunes@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s 1 day. Guaranteed if someone walked in and said “I want to buy all the water you can sell for the next 9 months”, they’d be singing a very different tune.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Then scalpers would buy them and jack the price up.

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  • sibachian@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    limit to one per customer per day like most tcg sellers do with pokemon and magic.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m sure there’s ways around that. Different cards, PO boxes, email addresses, names. Even if they had only 4 ways of buying that’s still almost 30 buys a week times however many scalpers there are.

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      • sibachian@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        obviously there will be a handful of people pulling that shit but every system basically assumes that 10% of the people using the system will use it unethically to their advantage. just balance around that, as the vast majority aren’t exploitive scumbags.

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• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s because they’re guaranteed to sell all the water when there’s a storm anyway. There’s a reason there’s laws against raising prices in an emergency.

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I consider not having access to reasonably-priced hardware an emergency ;(

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