I agree. This morning, I was randomly in the AMD store and, after a while, up popped a notification about the queue starting in 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, I got a dialog about my wait to enter the store/queue (whatever it was) was greater than an hour. Seventeen (17) minutes later, that changed to say all graphics cards were gone.
There's got to be a better way. I realize AMD can sell everything they make within nanoseconds to scalpers, bots and cryptominers and charge whatever they want for it. But, it sure would be nice if they implemented a proper queue system where people could enter a queue whenever they wanted, prove they're an honest to goodness person (there are ID services designed to do exactly that -- for instance, even the IRS is using ID.me for verified logins), select what they want, perhaps even pre-pay or put a deposit down, and get notified when that's available. And, of course, AMD could set aside some decent fraction of their manufacturing for actual people. I know there would be a cost for AMD to do that (personnel costs and the opportunity cost of not selling pallet-loads to scalpers instantly). But, surely doing something to help regular people would have a long term benefit.
