The first time I woke up last night, somewhere around three in the morning, I checked my phone to see if online stores had already posted and sold out of their stock of AMD's new RX 9070 XT graphics cards, which carried with them the promise of a GPU launch that would finally have plenty of hardware on hand. Too early. At 5:45 am I woke up again and saw that they'd be going on sale in 15 minutes. No going back to sleep this time.
I'd already made sure I had my credit card info up-to-date at Amazon, Newegg, and Best Buy. I had Best Buy's sole $600 MSRP card model from XFX favorited, with a notification set in the app to ping me when it went on sale. At 6:00, sitting in bed in the dark, I tapped the listing. It hung on a blinding white screen. I backed out and tapped again. This time it loaded. 6:01 am: Sold out.
