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> Their intent is to limit what people can do with their hardware. Not really. The intent is to get graphics cards in the hands of gamers and professionals, instead of in the hands of crypto miners. That is the end goal here. If you have a better solution, of how to do this without people getting around it via reselling, ect , please suggest it.
My solution is not to do that. Make and sell the cards to the people who will buy them. If you're selling out make more and/or raise prices.
What if you want to raise prices only to crypto miners, and not raise them for gamers/professions, in order to support your long term customers?
There are lots of very good business reasons to provide preferential treatment to a specific customer base, and to raise prices on a different customer base.
It is called price discrimination, and is very useful.
Do you not support companies making obvious business decisions like this, with their own company, that have large benefits to their existing customer base, as well as being perfectly rational from a business perspective?
Having crypto miners subsidize an existing customer base, makes a lot of business sense, and helps out a lot of people.
And it is all done, with people making voluntary decisions with the products that they choose to sell. Don't buy the product, if you don't like it.