{"id":4622,"date":"2022-01-20T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/20\/amazon-japan-is-selling-gpu-loot-boxes-with-2015-era-cards\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T10:38:08","slug":"amazon-japan-is-selling-gpu-loot-boxes-with-2015-era-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/20\/amazon-japan-is-selling-gpu-loot-boxes-with-2015-era-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Japan is Selling GPU ‘Loot Boxes’ with 2015-era Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Image: Amazon)<\/small><\/center>In what is truly a sign of the dystopian times we are currently living in, a Japanese Amazon seller has begun offering \u201cGPU Loot Boxes\u201d for sale, offering some \u201clucky\u201d buyers the chance at a wide range of both new and old graphics cards. The mere existence of just such a product is troubling enough, but what\u2019s even more discouraging is that the Loot Boxes are \u2014 unsurprisingly \u2014 completely sold out.<\/p>\n

The boxes<\/a>, which cost between $100 and $125 dollars, are offered in four tiers. At the top of the stack is the Good Box, which could theoretically include the following: Includes all series of NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards including RTX3090, RTX 3080 Ti, RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3060 Ti, RX 6900 XT, RX 6800, RX 6700 XT, RX 6600 XT. The listing adds, \u201cGraphics cards include used and brand new. GeForce 30 Series and RX 6000 are brand new.\u201d Next up is the High Quality box, but rather than a potential list of products it just says, \u201cAll graphics cards are real and worth your money, so you don\u2019t have to worry about it,\u201d which sounds like the sketchiest thing we have ever read.<\/p>\n

Moving on to the bottom of the barrel, we have the\u00a0100% Winning box, which doesn\u2019t sound suspect at all<\/em>. The listing notes, \u201cThe probability to win this random box is 100% so you can find your own surprise and get a random product of equal or super value.\u201d Finally, there\u2019s the bottom rung box, which is cleverly titled \u201cbox,\u201d and the description notes its contents is truly random, and a secret. \u201cThe item in the box is randomly selected. If you want to know the item, you need to unlock it yourself. This is a brave game. If you like it, please feel free to order it!\u201d A brave game indeed. What\u2019s that line about \u201cA fool and his money?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The current insanity facing would-be GPU purchasers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

According to Wccftech Gamer\u2019s<\/a> accounting, the range of possible GPUs you could find in the box spans from the GTX 900\/Radeon 300 era from 2014 \u2013 2015, all the way up to the present RTX 30-series and AMD 6000 series. The website estimates the odds of getting a specific GPU drops in half as you move up the food chain. So that puts the odds of getting a GPU from 2015 at 16 percent, and eight percent for a GTX 10-series\/RX500 GPU. As we move down the line, there\u2019s a four percent chance of scoring an RTX 2000-series\/RX5000 GPU, and a mere two percent<\/em>\u00a0chance you\u2019ll find a shiny new RTX 3000-series or RX6000 series GPU staring back at you. That leaves a remaining 70 percent chance you\u2019ll get some kind of GPU, <\/em>and that\u2019s it. That said, chances are high it will simply be a GPU that has the following characteristics: it will be old, it will be used, and it will be cheap.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also possible this isn\u2019t even a real thing, so maybe someone is taking the piss, so to speak. If someone did have access to a decent supply of GPUs, regardless of their age you can make a lot more money just selling them on eBay than you can with a Loot Box. Maybe the majority of the boxes sold, if any, were just filled with garbage. With the proliferation of scam products on Amazon these days, it would not surprise us. There\u2019s also the issue that there are only two reviews for the boxes, and neither of them seem very trustworthy. For example, the first one reads, \u201cI haven\u2019t bought it, but it looks very fun.\u201d Now, call us cynical, but that does not sound like a legit review. The only other review meekly reports, \u201cIt\u2019s a product that has been used in many ways.\u201d Well then, sign us up!<\/p>\n

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