Should OCUK shop give priority to its forum members?

[FlyingFish]

I see a lot of mixed emotions on here at the moment, most directed at the shop.

I firmly believe that Overclockers UK wouldn't be what they are today without this amazing forum made up of its members.

I've no idea what the truth is regarding stock levels, bots etc, and the influx of new customers, but would it be too much to ask Overclockers to look after the people that make this place?

What do people think?

Edit: Incase it isn't obvious, this question is regarding the high profile release of the nvidia 3080, which will no doubt spill over to the 3090, 3070 and whatever AMD release.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

They give you free shipping what more do you want? lol

Maybe they should create a VIP list for loyal members lol

 

[Zefan]

They already do with free shipping, but I get where you're coming from.

 

[Donnie Fisher]

I doubt that the forum constitutes a significant proportion of the shop revenue overall. (I could be wrong).

So personally, no I don't think it should. Gibbo put a post up to the forums about availabilities on advance to give heads up to the forum which I thought was fair enough.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I doubt that the forum constitutes a significant proportion of the shop revenue overall. (I could be wrong).

So personally, no I don't think it should. Gibbo put a post up to the forums about availabilities on advance to give heads up to the forum which I thought was fair enough.

10% iirc from a forum meltdown many years ago.

I agree with the OP though. Yes.

 

[koolpc]

Bigger packets of Haribo would be good. Only to forum members with over 10 years memembership on the forum!

 

[VincentHanna]

No, they could invest in more servers and anti-bot defences though.

 

[Stu999]

There were hints in the ‘stock situation’ thread although that was no use to me as I couldn’t access the forum or shop between 13:50 and 17:00 yesterday then again from 17:30 until this morning.

 

[Dontrocktheboat]

Less price gouging would do me just fine

+ Then trying to blaming it on currency fluctuations.

What absolute ******.

 

[BigBANGtheory]

maybe they do?

Customer history is probably a better measure though as you could have forum users that never buy anything, and customers that read but don't post in the forums. Clearly they are going to have to queue shipments somehow if the existing system does it by first-in/first-out its probably what will happen in reality unless with the website going down they are reverting to a manual spreadsheet process for the first few weeks.

If salty Turing posts is used as a measure then RIP my order

 

[Toothy1911]

And Gibbo gave us a heads up of what cards were in stock so we could aim our F5ing a little better.

 

[FlyingFish]

All well and good if you could log in and spotted his post. Perhaps an email would have been better sent out to us members? Not everyone has the luxury of sitting on the forums all day

 

[Ayahuasca]

No, because we aren't the special little souls we think we are.

What I would like to see is the excuse threads dropped before every nVidia launch.

 

[Troezar]

It depends if the pricing is competitive

 

[Guest2]

Should do in my opinion. Login with username and require >100 (genuine) posts.
That said, the site would probably fall over with the forums anyway. Azure web hosting maybe too to keep up with demand.
Didnt someone show a pic of a “max 480 users” SQL error yesterday?

 

[The Old School Gamer]

All well and good if you could log in and spotted his post. Perhaps an email would have been better sent out to us members? Not everyone has the luxury of sitting on the forums all day

Well he didn't have to do or say anything at all to be honest.
It was just a little bonus to those who were active on the forum at the time for the launch.

But the website crashed and burned anyway.
So we didn't gain any kind of advantage over the next person trying to order.

 

[bazzabear]

Forum members whose nickname starts with a B should get 50% discounts. Aside from that, nah.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Forum members whose nickname starts with a B should get 50% discounts. Aside from that, nah.

A gets 60%

 

[bazzabear]

Dammit, I should have thought of that.

 

[montymint]

No, they could invest in more servers and anti-bot defences though.

This, a couple of captchas added to the site (although annoying) would go a long way. Also a limit on units per address (exception of business accounts which for the most part wouldn;t need gaming GPUS).