Scalpers are already jacking up the price of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Blink and you missed it — nan Ryzen 7 9800X3D is sold retired everywhere. As you tin publication successful our Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, it’s 1 of nan best processors you tin buy, and conscionable minutes aft nan first listings went live, nan CPU went retired of stock. Scalpers connected eBay are already capitalizing.

Dozens of listings are live, astir of them complete $900. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a suggested unit value of $479. These are “preorder” listing connected eBay. Quotes are important present because, dissimilar a accepted preorder, these smaller sellers connected eBay acquisition a spot for database value and past flip it for a overmuch higher price. In different words, scalping. None of nan listings person sold yet, though 1 eBay shopper picked up nan spot for $564 yesterday.

These early prices will driblet erstwhile nan Ryzen 7 9800X3D comes backmost successful stock, but you should expect precocious prices for a while. On nan AMD subreddit, some fortunate shoppers are celebrating that they were capable to acquisition a CPU correct arsenic nan listing went live. One purchaser said nan CPU went retired of banal connected Newegg arsenic they were checking out, but they were capable to find an early listing connected Amazon and still unafraid a unit. Listings are unrecorded connected Newegg, Amazon, and B&H Photo, though they’re each retired of banal astatine nan moment.

On AMD’s charismatic online store, nan processor is besides sold out, contempt nan CPU being constricted to 1 portion per shopper. Thankfully, there’s still 1 spot you tin find nan Ryzen 7 9800X3D for database value — Micro Center. As nan brick-and-mortar retailer often does, it’s limiting nan Ryzen 7 9800X3D to in-store purchases only. If you person a Micro Center adjacent you, you should beryllium capable to prime up nan CPU for database price, astatine slightest done nan adjacent mates of days.

Although scalpers are already trying to make a profit connected nan Ryzen 7 9800X3D, nan value shouldn’t enactment precocious for long. Especially online, we typically spot caller hardware launches released successful waves. As nan Ryzen 7 9800X3D becomes much readily available, prices connected nan secondhand marketplace will drop. However, fixed really quickly nan CPU sold out, there’s a chance it could return a fewer months earlier prices stabilize fully.