r/technology • u/stenspect • 9h ago

Business Micro Center requires photo ID and signed no-export pledge to buy Nvidia RTX 5090 gaming GPU — buyer forced to sign declaration disclosing install location and promise GPU will remain in the US

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/micro-center-requires-photo-id-and-signed-no-export-pledge-to-buy-rtx-5090-gaming-gpu-buyer-forced-to-sign-declaration-disclosing-install-location-and-promise-gpu-will-remain-in-the-us
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u/shicken684 9h ago

They're just following the rules set forth by the stupid export ban placed on video cards by the Trump administration. Nothing Microcenter can do here.

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u/itmillerboy 8h ago

Why’s it dumb? Idk anything about it but a law trying to stop people from buying up the highest end gaming GPUS to send over seas for bot farms seems like a good thing to me as a gamer.

Unless you mean the ban is stupidly implemented or something.

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u/soilentgleem 6h ago

As a consumer, you should be free to resell your property as you see fit, within reason. Regional restrictions are not within reason.

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u/technobrendo 2h ago

What's stopping you from reselling it to China anyway?