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ARCHIVE - *** NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080 SERIES STOCK SITUATION *** - NO COMPETITOR DISCUSSION

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Dirtyganker said:
@Gibbo

I don't know if someone has already suggested this, or considered this, but it's just a request ...

Can you please not post details of stock availability on the day of launch of future RTX 3000 series releases?

I know that doing so has all best intentions and indeed it is obviously appreciated by all, but looking at the reports which indicate that bots have been rife, posting up the projected stock and availability probably allows them to be more effective. It won't stop the issue of bots and the various other shortcuts being abused, but it certainly won't make their life any easier and might just serve to give mere mortals a fighting chance of getting an order in.
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IMHO, I don't think that would have made a single difference.
 
Dirtyganker said:
@Gibbo

I don't know if someone has already suggested this, or considered this, but it's just a request ...

Can you please not post details of stock availability on the day of launch of future RTX 3000 series releases?

I know that doing so has all best intentions and indeed it is obviously appreciated by all, but looking at the reports which indicate that bots have been rife, posting up the projected stock and availability probably allows them to be more effective. It won't stop the issue of bots and the various other shortcuts being abused, but it certainly won't make their life any easier and might just serve to give mere mortals a fighting chance of getting an order in.
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I’m pretty sure he said they aren’t changing cards listings to show “in stock” so people can be pleasantly surprised when a pre order ships immediately and they don’t have to deal with people flash mobbing the site every single time
 
DTUOHY96 said:
I’m pretty sure he said they aren’t changing cards listings to show “in stock” so people can be pleasantly surprised when a pre order ships immediately and they don’t have to deal with people flash mobbing the site every single time
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For the 3090 it will be pre-order only, what stock there is for any of the cards will be in single digits so no point in considering it as anything other than a Pre-order.

Gibbo said:
Yea all ok pre order and to be honest the ones in stock are single digits so pre order is best option as prevents anyone ordering something showing in stock but the website not updating in time and turning out they missed out. Whereas pre order is assume no stock but then get pleasant surprise of a shipping notification and they will be lucky people as suspect there will be 100’s If not 1000’s of people attempting to order in first few minute.

Were implementing more precautions and locking down our site more to try and ensure things run a bit better but with these levels of demand it’s hard work as even some of the more advanced sites still went down.
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Lastof said:
Thanks. And having actually spent a second to think about the aditional complexity of time vs order number (you'd have to plot time to the graph, since it is unlikely to map nicely to a formula, which would be much more complex and harder to test) I've now reaslise how much more work it'd be.

Might have a play with a copy of the google sheet tomorrow and see if there is a good way of plotting per card on a graph that @shaan200 could add to the google sheet which would give an easy to comprehend visual for queue growth vs time per-card.
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After finding that the Google docs sheet didn't have time _and_ order number, I did some of this with margin-of-error for inaccuracy. See here, though I'll admit I've not updated it with any of the stuff in the thread since Sunday AM (frankly, the graph shaped up well enough). You're welcome to the sheet I used.
 
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kitch9 said:
I don't understand what happened. I ordered at 2.20pm from the "E" store with "Next Day Delivery," displayed both on the item and in my order page and I've just had an email stating it may be November....

Eh?
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They opened orders at midnight. I got my order in at 00.13. I haven’t heard anything, when I ask for eta they say they can’t tell me. Order number: 273102xx if that helps.
 
I keep on hearing things that the non OC strix still isnt releasing for another month... I hope that is not the case otherwise I will order myself the Strix OC, it feels odd that we know the OC Strix is coming in stock late this week but no news on the Non OC strix... very concerned about that now
 
Dirtyganker said:
@Gibbo

I don't know if someone has already suggested this, or considered this, but it's just a request ...

Can you please not post details of stock availability on the day of launch of future RTX 3000 series releases?

I know that doing so has all best intentions and indeed it is obviously appreciated by all, but looking at the reports which indicate that bots have been rife, posting up the projected stock and availability probably allows them to be more effective. It won't stop the issue of bots and the various other shortcuts being abused, but it certainly won't make their life any easier and might just serve to give mere mortals a fighting chance of getting an order in.
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Gibbo already said he's posting on the forums the brands of small single digit stock they have, like he did for 3080.

But he's leaving website as 'pre-order' status for all. As the website can't update quick enough to reflect true stock status, so to avoid any disappointment it makes sense to me. Plus saves OcUK a lot of ear bashing.

Then if anyone who reads the forums or orders the 'right product at the right time' could be pleasantly surprised to get one of small handful of 3090s lol.
 
Lastof said:
Thanks. And having actually spent a second to think about the aditional complexity of time vs order number (you'd have to plot time to the graph, since it is unlikely to map nicely to a formula, which would be much more complex and harder to test) I've now reaslise how much more work it'd be.

Might have a play with a copy of the google sheet tomorrow and see if there is a good way of plotting per card on a graph that @shaan200 could add to the google sheet which would give an easy to comprehend visual for queue growth vs time per-card.
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I'll have a look this evening to investigate the best way of retrieving the data :)
 
There's no point putting anymore time in the unofficial queue data sheet tbh.

OcUK have said they are releasing their own queue checker in the next day or two. Can't get any better than from the horse's mouth itself.
 
Hey guys, I have a question. Yesterday when I used the queue calculator, my position was 2173 for the MSI Gaming. However now, I just wanted to check if the queue Calculator somehow updated dynamically with people that may have cancelled their orders.
Surprise surprise, now my queue number is higher, it's 2223. Is that even possible? I mean it's based on the order number, what gives?
 
Blanzi said:
Hey guys, I have a question. Yesterday when I used the queue calculator, my position was 2173 for the MSI Gaming. However now, I just wanted to check if the queue Calculator somehow updated dynamically with people that may have cancelled their orders.
Surprise surprise, now my queue number is higher, it's 2223. Is that even possible? I mean it's based on the order number, what gives?
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People entering data might have ordered before you but entered the data after you did
 
Blanzi said:
Hey guys, I have a question. Yesterday when I used the queue calculator, my position was 2173 for the MSI Gaming. However now, I just wanted to check if the queue Calculator somehow updated dynamically with people that may have cancelled their orders.
Surprise surprise, now my queue number is higher, it's 2223. Is that even possible? I mean it's based on the order number, what gives?
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The unofficial calculator doesn't account for cancellations, just the data people are putting into it.

Just wait for the official queue system OC are building.
 
I'm thinking of going for a ASUS GEFORCE RTX 3080 ROG STRIX GAMING OC
instead of a RTX 3090.

Problem being is that no one knows when they will have stock
 
266 for Strix OC. I managed to complete an amazon payment at 16:41 on 17/09 and received an order number on 21/09. I was super happy upon receiving the confirmation email - my "did my pre-order purchase succeed" sweating days are over.

Thank you to the Overclockers UK staff for enduring what is undoubtedly a stressful retail event under a wider difficult business environment.
 
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