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Fun note: despite now living in different parts of the world, Larry and Stu tend to finish each others’ thoughts, and there were a couple times I lost track of who said what. This conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity. Plus, some tips if you’re still trying to nab a graphics card yourself. So what’s a gamer to do? Here are some excerpts from my interview with the Falcodrin crew about how they cheat the system, how the system cheats you, and how that scalper arms race is pushing Falcodrin to build bots of their own.
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“It’s a bot war,” say Larry, who asked us not to use his full name. Like what you see? When you press the buy button, that retailer gives Falcodrin a piece of the action.īut if you’re hoping to find a GPU this holiday season, Falcodrin has a message for you: it might be a cold winter, because retailers, scalpers, and stock trackers are all locked in a software arms race that kicks the little guy to the curb.
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You sign up for alerts and get a ping when a GPU’s in stock. They’ve become full-time GPU hunters, helping others find an estimated 50,000 graphics cards (and counting) in exchange for affiliate revenue. Now, Larry says he’s on track to pull in $100,000 a year - and another $100K for his software development partner Stu - as the proprietors of Falcodrin Stock Alerts and the Falcodrin Community Discord. Last September, a bored 24-year-old from South Carolina decided to livestream the launch of Nvidia’s RTX 3080 graphics card, little knowing the GPU was about to become one of the most difficult-to-buy gadgets in the world.