“Has any steps been put in place to combat bots, something like a cell phone code sent to the buyer to confirm its a person.”

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• bots can use cell phone codes. for the 3080 ti they're available in store only, which is way better than any codes or captchas or whatever online. hopefully they do the same thing with these

  Answered by nixm 4 years ago

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• I spoke to a rep and they said they're releasing it online because they made upgrades to block bots from buying them. Hopefully it works.

  Answered by JoeP 4 years ago

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• obviously :)

  Answered by Robot831 4 years ago

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• I know I'm late to answer this, but best buy currently has the best anti bot setup. They have a multi click add to cart process that requires multiple live person inputs or it resets the whole page and removes the item from your cart.

  Answered by Thepope 4 years ago

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• Yeah they developed a multi click add to cart setup with a random timer from the follow on add buttons, and there are multiple human checks and if any questions arise during the process it resets the cart and page.

  Answered by Anonymous 4 years ago

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• I chatted with an "agent", and they indicated that they will not be selling to bots. Let's all hold our breath...

  Answered by Red1 4 years ago

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• no

  Answered by ayaya 4 years ago

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• I have been refreshing this page all day and between refreshes it when from coming soon to sold out. Not sure but refreshing only take 0.25 seconds. Such a sad state we live in now.

  Answered by Realpersongamedesiner 4 years ago

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• Actually yes - releasing at random times, only allowing one per account - and forcing you to pick up at a best buy instead of shipping to your house.

  Answered by SierraG 4 years ago

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• Most likely not, since they mainly care about the money. But I really, really, really hope that they do put something in to combat bots. I'm trying to upgrade my PC man : (

  Answered by mridott 4 years ago

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