Newegg has undertaken other measures to tackle customers who have multiple accounts. It's banning the IP addresses of people who it believes may be using auto-refresh, autoload and crawler bots.

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The Newegg Shuffle Combats Bots and Scalpers, Brings In-Demand Products Within Reach of Everyday Consumers February 25, 2021 08:00 AM Eastern Standard Time ...

Scalpers utilizing armies of bots to instantly purchase high-demand hardware have become a scourge online, and e-retailer Newegg is attempting to solve that problem by rolling out a lottery system.

Los Angeles-based Newegg has launched a new effort to make it more fair for its consumers to buy very high demand products--such as GPUs and graphics cards--through what it calls The Newegg Shuffle.