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

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Right decision, hadn't realised that a significant proportion of orders was going abroad and especially to the US. That's pretty non-sensical. There should be no need to order internationally on a global product. I can understand doing when only locally made products are available (I had to order my weightlifting belt from USA because they didn't make them or sell them anywhere else) or if a product is released in one area before another (eg the recent Reverb G2 was available on rainforest spain but not in the UK).
 
HoldinSomeVoltin said:
I'll be honest, it kind of makes sense as to not ship internationally during big launches. If we're only allocated a certain amount of UK stock, then it's kind of ******** that UK customers are screwed over due to other foreign markets being sold out. And listen, I'm all for us, and I mean ALL of us getting our cards, regardless of where you come from. My issue is in the fairness of stock allocation, as it puts UK and Irish customers at a major disadvantage. It makes me wonder if a very large amount of sales are international, leading to the new policy change from OCUK. I suppose this is a lesson many retailers will use for up and coming technology releases. Or they won't and it will happen all over again which is probably the correct answer.
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Especially when EVGA are treating the UK market like they are. I used to like EVGAs products but they can forget about any business from me in future.
 
MusoStu said:
When @Gibbo provides the link to the official queue page, the irony is, that it will be inundated and that too will crash!
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I was told it would be an email apparently, bit odd though as that would imply a one-off queue number.

It would make more sense if it was a web tool, so you could get a live queue update or thereabouts. Maybe it will be?
 
Shahzada said:
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Any rough ETA for evga rtx 3080 ftw3 ultra ?
I was told to stay with this as only limited number of people have ordered and dont see any mention about EVGA cards ? are these more delayed unlike other AIB partiners ?
was told to wait till November or December
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Going on how EVGA have treated the UK with past launches which werent even as popular as this launch, we all had to wait 3 months here so maybe January 2021?????
 
Gibbo said:
Sorry maybe my post was poorly worded.

Only USA orders cancelled are those that have requested, any USA/European orders placed at 3080 launch are still valid, so no need to worry if your waiting.

We are now though moving forward limiting future orders to UK/Ireland ONLY, as when NVIDIA and a board partner allocates us stock we only get UK allocation and we are not winning additional allocation because we ship globally unfortunately and hence we want to prioritise our local (UK/Ireland) customers whilst the product is in severe constraint.
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Hadn't really considered that the stock is UK allocation and that is being shipped to the US, who already get much much more than we do anyway. Would be nice to think the queue would be prioritised also but I know that kind of thing could alienate customers. I think I shadow many on here though, in that USA have many stores where you can just drive in and buy. Feel fairly salty that they're sucking up the limited stock over here too, but also; I can't say I blame them either! ("don't hate the player" springs to mind!)
 
Sparx said:
I was told it would be an email apparently, bit odd though as that would imply a one-off queue number.

It would make more sense if it was a web tool, so you could get a live queue update or thereabouts. Maybe it will be?
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I hope its not just an email with, you are queue number X.

It should be a webtool, so you can have read only access to the database specific to your order. They should also have more contextual information such as, you ordered X card and we expect to receive X amount on the specific date. That way, they can give you a good idea on when you *might* receive your card!
 
Sparx said:
I was told it would be an email apparently, bit odd though as that would imply a one-off queue number.

It would make more sense if it was a web tool, so you could get a live queue update or thereabouts. Maybe it will be?
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live updates would be more fun and interesting. Would also stop a lot of people hassling customer service.
 
I am from the US, the orders here in the US during launch was an ABSOLUTE joke. (As I am sure they were in the UK too) I had 6 different tabs open, and in little than two seconds bots literally took everything. No American site had any orders where you could back order or stay on a queue list. It was all strictly a first come first serve order and in that case bots won. So many greedy Americans by me now even on Facebook market place 15 min from me, are trying to sell these cards for 30 thousand dollars plus. I am sure if other places in the United States took a queue list we wouldn’t be here. At the end of the day we are all PC enthusiasts here.
 
In the interest of hurrying the process up they could list abridged order numbers e.g. last 4 digits, along with customer initials next to the card and queue number. This would mean one simple spreadsheet that is anonymised.
 
Dean Guile said:
I don't get Americans shopping in the UK for PC Parts, everyime I watch videos from Jayz, Linus or any of those that are from Canada/US, I always get super jealous how amazing stores they have over there, we could only dream of a national chain store like Micro Centre over here in the UK, I would literally spend my life in there, so why on earth would you be shopping here in the UK, we have nothing like you guys have over in the U.S.
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Most of us in the USA don't have it either. Micro centers are extremely limited, and they don't ship. This stuff is almost always local pickup only.(3 hour drive here)

The vast majority of US cities have zero retail stores outside of bestbuy.

We also wish we lived near a micro center.
 
Sparx said:
I was told it would be an email apparently, bit odd though as that would imply a one-off queue number.

It would make more sense if it was a web tool, so you could get a live queue update or thereabouts. Maybe it will be?
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To be honest I'd be happy knowing where I was on the queue at that point in time (of the email). A live update queue feature sounds like something that would need to be developed.
 
Stormcrown said:
Most of us in the USA don't have it either. Micro centers are extremely limited, and they don't ship. This stuff is almost always local pickup only.(3 hour drive here)

The vast majority of US cities have zero retail stores outside of bestbuy.

We also wish we lived near a micro center.
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Yeah I saw one microcenter which had 85 people sleeping outside overnight and it turned out they only had 2 cards come the morning. Ouch.
 
How about cancelling the international orders and prioritising the UK ones. Each country has its own stock and retailers.

Given the website was totally broken for regular customers how did international ones manage to connect? Because they used scripts.
 
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