How desperate are you for GPUs, CPUs, consoles? Newegg tests with new lottery

Sam Machkovech

from Ars Technica - All content on 2021-01-22 20:33 (#5D6KC)

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Over the past 12 months, electronics retailers have been under increased fire and scrutiny for mishandling how they sell brand-new consoles and high-end PC components. This week, online retailer Newegg has moved forward with a peculiar new system for selling high-demand, low-supply electronics: the Newegg Shuffle. (Or, as the site's metadata calls it, the Newegg Popular Product Lottery Queue.)

If you catch this article early enough on Friday, January 22, consider this a drop-everything suggestion to rush to the site by 5 pm ET and place a product-purchase request. Really: Do that right now if you're interested in recent AMD CPUs, Nvidia GPUs, or the all-digital PlayStation 5. It's free to try. We'll wait.

OK, so that process might have been a bit confusing. What's going on with the Newegg Shuffle?

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