Then, two days ago, you get this:
My El Toro Caca filter is smoking.
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Prices are so high, there’s no way they will drop to normal in a few weeks. This will take time to sweat out completely, probably even GPU generations.
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Took me a second to get this, right as I was sipping coffee.
Which now it’s all over my desk.
Thanks.
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Meh, mining is just a small part driving the demand.
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Miners are the ones who really don’t care too much about the card cost, though. Double normal? Eh, that just means a few more weeks to recover the cost, big deal!
I think it should be El Filtro de Mierda de Toro, BTW…
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Stiereschijtfilter in 
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They do I will find one when I am on the pc
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Wish them luck. It seems that hackers always have a crack ready almost before the product being protected ships its first unit.
Wheels
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Yeah, sadly this.
I think the trick to not encouraging scalpers is not to give them money. 
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This. I can’t emphasize it enough.
I’d be ok with waiting a few months for a 3060 if i could get it at MSRP or a little over. Unfortunately there are no vendors (that i know of) in my neck of the woods that have such offers. You either buy it at 800-1000€ or you don’t get one.
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Since Virpil does pre-orders, you basically order a unit and wait until you’re next in line. I guess they would notice it if someone suddenly ordered 100 units 
I wish PC parts vendors did the same…
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I’d hope they check multiple levels of detail because one could easily make 100 accounts with different names and ship them all to the same location.
I’d expect if they any vendors claim anti-scalping they’d have some way to check shipping addresses and maybe even payment details to scan for duplicates.
Sure, but my guess is that a small company like Virpil would notice.
And even if some scalper ordered 100 units, my place in the que will eventually get first in line, so all I have to do is be patient. That’s not the case with waiting for a Nvidia 30whatever, because I have to be ready when the vendor release their stock, and try to beat the bots…
Yes, sorry that was more what I was speaking to. The retailers of PC parts when they say they want to help get the cards to gamers should have those types of checks in place.
Nothing can really stop me buying from 3 different retailers, but that is a far reduced amount than a single bulk purchase at one vendor or a dozen orders to the same vendor under different accounts all shipped to the same place.
I’d imagine some already have policies stating “limit one per household” or similar but I question how far they check to actually enforce it.
I have seen some stores selling their stuff at $100.000. You have to be a registered customer to put it in your shopping cart and then you wait for a $99.000 discount code, while the store check you out. But I have no idea how well this works… You still have to get it in your cart. 