Best Buy seemingly never sold the NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti

Even a service that checks stock every ten seconds never managed to see the RTX 3070 Ti for sale through Best Buy.



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It appears that the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti never actually went up for sale on Best Buy's website.
Listings for the graphics card allegedly switched from "Coming soon" to "Sold out" without ever being available for purchase.
Even bots and computer scripts never saw the GPU up for sale, according to recent reports.


Seeing one of the best graphics cards sell out instantly isn't a strange sight these days. Due to chip shortages, almost all high-end graphics cards sell out right away. But the recent launch of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti raised some red flags for consumers. According to several reports, the RTX 3070 Ti never went up for sale on Best Buy's website (via PCMag).

The listing for the RTX 3070 Ti allegedly switched directly from "Coming soon" to "Sold out" at around 1:12 PM PST on Best Buy's website. Instantly selling out is standa...