The GeForce GTX 1080 Is The Best Selling High-End Card Ever Released – AIBs Confirm

[~Mike~]

Even worse he said they buy the Pallit in sterling so the prices of them won't change but they have all gone up the same as the other cards.

Seems so. https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=29681017&postcount=3680

 

[harney]

I don't often agree with you but I do here very naughty of OcUK. The pound is strengthening but OcUK not reflecting that at all and only basing on when the pound was at its lowest. And Gibbo saying nothing will change till 3pm. Personally notinterested in buying at the mo on anything but I wouldn't want to pay the extra gouging on the gouging already if I was.

Agree

Gouging on gouging not good
seems to me this whole exchange thing is just another way to squeeze even more out of the buyer when the prices are allready way too high ...
never mind trying to set in a panic buy saying it may go up so buy in before 3pm ....Peeps will fall for this not right

 

[Griffildur]

well prices did go up. I ordered a Zotac Amp Extreme this morning, was 619.99. now they are 651.49.

I think we will miss those days when we thought the new cards were expensive. What comes next will be much worse.

 

[Razor Time]

well prices did go up. I ordered a Zotac Amp Extreme this morning, was 619.99. now they are 651.49.

I think we will miss those days when we thought the new cards were expensive. What comes next will be much worse.

If people don't buy at these higher prices they will correct themselves and come back down. Retail is a cut throat business and there is always someone out there that will undercut to get your money.

 

[Griffildur]

I expect the £ will stabilize and prices should come down naturally. I just don't feel like waiting for that to happen any more.

 

[drunkenmaster]

OCUK have been doing this for years, best prices in the uk, at one time sure, a long long time ago.

Any excuse and they whack prices up, always first to whack prices up, always first to price gouge and they take the entire uk market up with them.

Gibbo you have a 30-60 day account, well done, what stopped you paying up the order yesterday in anticipation of bad prices for your customers? Instead you're using the possibility you might have to pay at worse prices to ask for that money upfront from customers and if the price isn't that bad you've simply taken a massive profit and ripped off your customers.

Why not offer 30-60 day accounts for customers and they can pay when the price is the lowest. It's pretty clearly just an excuse to get the most profit you can and use any remote excuse possible to do so. As for the "these prices won't go up because they are in pounds".... wow.

 

[Crook]

Poor stock seems to be the downfall of these cards, and as well as (reversed) price gouging, taking pre-orders with a prospective date which slips and slips isn't doing anyone any favours, especially with little in the way of information about stocking practices, just some vague sales figures that really don't say much.

 

[Orangey]

Little did we know NV had a time machine.

 

[tommybhoy]

The GeForce GTX 1080 Is The Best Selling High-End Card Ever Released – AIBs Confirm

Don't know if Asus is just having a laugh or trolling their partner...

Spoiler

 

[DarrenM343]

I love it - well done nVidia. So much for overpriced eh?

 

[Gibbo]

Seems so. https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=29681017&postcount=3680

I am back and have corrected all the pricing, so Palit 1080 FE is back too £599.99, I am true to my word.

 

[Gibbo]

Hi there


So the prices!

I had every price reverted back on graphics, I have then gone through all our prices, some I have being able to keep at the original price because the stock had landed and I also purchased them in GBP currency (UK suppliers) so thankfully even when we pay for those goods in 30-60 days the price shall be the same.

Then on the pre-order lines mainly where stock is incoming and not paid for I have gone 50/50 essentially, so where minimum increases should have being at least £20-£30 and higher, I have actually tried to keep these increases to around £10 sacrificing some of our margin.

This does mean however the prices will not get back down to their original pricing until the rate reaches 1.43, of course we may fine tune in between some prices down if rate improves.

Unfortunately if the rate does go sub 1.35 then I shall have to make further increases to graphics, thankfully Maxwell stock is un-affected by this as it was all paid for so I shall remain very aggressive on these SKU's and I have additional support to go even lower.

AMD's new launch unfortunately is effected, I have stock, but again it is not paid for and I booked the stock at an original rate of 1.43-1.44 whereas now we have re-adjusted this down to 1.36 but again I am going to sacrifice some OcUK margin to try and hit price points. I shall push AMD for some additional support to see if they can help us hit original target MSRP's I had in mind.

However I have being able to obtain more support for old gen from both AMD and NVIDIA so now we have GPU's from the following price points which puts us the lowest in the UK by miles:

R9 Fury @ £341.99
R9 390X 8G @ £259.99
R9 390 8G @ £209.99

GTX 980Ti @ £359.99
GTX 980 @ £275.99
GTX 970 @ £209.99
GTX 960 4G @ £149.99
GTX 960 2G @ £139.99


I shall be keeping a close eye on rates and adjusting products accordingly both up and down if the rate shifts by substantial amount.
Our pricing in general on graphics is the cheapest in the UK at present and we have FREE shipping enabled pretty much on every GPU!!!

 

[Gibbo]

So much for the honesty policy

I am, I was in the air on a plane and a miss-communication happened as I was un-available.

It has now being corrected and true to my work Palit is back to £599 and I have re-adjusted all prices to bring us back to cheapest in the UK and FREE Shipping enabled, just how its being pretty much since 1080 launch, not just a single day thing.

 

[Bacon?]

Was looking at the 480 but may end up getting a 970 if the pound remains at a low value

 

[andybird123]

Poor stock seems to be the downfall of these cards, and as well as (reversed) price gouging, taking pre-orders with a prospective date which slips and slips isn't doing anyone any favours, especially with little in the way of information about stocking practices, just some vague sales figures that really don't say much.

Added to that, faulty and no idea on an eta for replacements. Back on the old 980ti for me.

 

[Orangey]

http://semiaccurate.com/2016/06/24/serious-manufacturing-problem-hits-nvidia-consumer-gpus/

As usual he has put it behind his paywall, but lack of wafers is one possible answer.

 

[ubasti]

Using the unofficial forum roll of honour as the basis of your argument is literally one of the most fallacious things I've ever read on this forum. And that takes some doing.

Indeed. No disrespect to ROH posters - more power to them - but it's not everyone's bag to upload pictures of their purchases with their name tag attached.

A lot of buyers don't even potentially post on this forum at all, never mind ROH.

 

[hominid]

http://semiaccurate.com/2016/06/24/serious-manufacturing-problem-hits-nvidia-consumer-gpus/

As usual he has put it behind his paywall, but lack of wafers is one possible answer.

Aye, TSMC said a while back that they were doubling wafer output for 16nm ff SOLELY for Apple(IPhone 7)..

 

[.Trooper.]

http://semiaccurate.com/2016/06/24/serious-manufacturing-problem-hits-nvidia-consumer-gpus/

As usual he has put it behind his paywall, but lack of wafers is one possible answer.

People were predicting this over 4 years ago for future architecture that we have now.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

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