Best Buy’s Bogus RTX 3070 Ti Launch? Even Bots Never Saw It Go on Sale

Something was very off with Best Buy’s purported launch of Nvidia’s RTX 3070 Ti on June 10. Despite the product ‘selling out,’ almost no one is reselling the card.

By Michael Kan

On Thursday, June 10, Best Buy was supposed to start selling Nvidia’s RTX 3070 Ti. But like every PC graphics card, it sold out immediately. Or at least, that’s what it looked like.

The people who run bots and computer scripts that monitor GPU sales say the launch never occurred. For whatever reason, Best Buy decided to hold back sales for the RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition, even as desperate consumers waited for hours online to try and buy it.

“No one got the Founders Edition from Best Buy,” said a representative for House of Carts, a group that bots and resells graphics cards.

Indeed, something fishy occurred with Best Buy’s launch for the product, which the retailer decided to exclusively sell online. Throughout the day, Best Buy listed the GPU as “coming soon.” Then at about 1:12 p.m. PST, the product’s status suddenly changed to “sold out.”