Screenshots of me completing the order for the RTX 3070. These products have been dubbed 'hot items,' but the GPUs can only be bought as a bundle with other PC parts, including the CPU, RAM, motherboard, power supply, and case. You also have to pay Newegg to assemble the parts into a working desktop for you. It involves the retailer’s custom PC builder service, through which Newegg has started selling a limited number of RTX 3000 graphics cards. “He’s currently playing on it now,” Santana said of his son. Three business days later, they received the GPU, an EVGA RTX 3090, which is currently listed as out of stock on Newegg. with the graphics card, which is inside his desktop rig. “I was like ‘check out, check out, check out, check out, check out,’ and then everything went smoothly.” 11-year-old Ricardo Santana Jr. “I was very surprised when he came over and the graphics card was in his (Newegg) cart,” the elder Ricardo Santana said. Hence your chances of scoring a card from the system are low.īut last week, the 11-year-old boy discovered a way to bypass the entire lottery system. In April, Newegg said on average that 100,000 people participate in the lotteries. His son, who goes by the same name, stumbled on the bypass in his desperate search to buy a new graphics card amid the great chip shortage.įor several months, the duo had experienced no luck obtaining a GPU from the retailer’s lottery system, the Newegg Shuffle, which doles out a limited number of PC graphics cards each day.

I learned of the loophole from Ricardo Santana, who lives in Orlando, Florida. Newegg's website and email showing my confirmed order.

According to the retailer, my order is slated to ship out later today. Newegg charged my credit card for the RTX 3070 card as a standalone purchase. Nor did I need to buy the graphics card as part of a bundle. The bypass let me purchase a $729 Nvidia RTX 3070 graphics card without going through Newegg’s lottery system to land a GPU. I tried out the loophole today and-amazingly-it works. An 11-year-old Florida boy has uncovered a loophole in Newegg’s mobile app that allowed him to buy an Nvidia RTX 3000 graphics card in seconds.

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