Thanks to bots, scalpers, and even more bots, companies have been implementing strange ways to get GPUs into the hands of enthusiasts over the last few months. We've seen lotteries to 'win' the chance at purchasing cards, we've seen customers buying returned GPUs to beat the scalping market, and we've seen potential customers purchasing RTX 50-series GPUs through Discord. However, it seems one store in Japan has implemented the most specific and most infeasible way of controlling how its GPUs are being used.
As reported by VideoCardz (and attributed to a post on Weibo), a Japanese shop has taken to informing potential customers it will not sell RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs to those looking to take them outside of Japan.
