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

[danmackers]

Surely a % based system that would give us an estimate of where we are, i.e. top 20% would make us all happy. Right now sitting on the dark with no clue, made 3 calls already 30m plus on the phone each time just on hold..

What info do you want them to give though? They've already said they can't give queue places over the phone as that's not in place yet, and nobody, even them know about short term or long term incoming stock. Unless you're cancelling your order, you're literally gonna be calling up to get the same basic information we already know in this thread/the stickied thread at the top of the forum

 

[AndyHoll123]

Did they say why it was cancelled?

They said it was their mistake and they apologised. I got an email to say thanks for cancelling and queried it and then they apologised and said sorry it was their mistake it just to order another card. Which I stupidly did. I have all the evidence

 

[Dannyr90]

Update if anyone is interested in the 2080ti I sold on eBay last week and they guy said it was faulty. Got it back today, shockingly poorly packed. Checked it over and it's dead. I can smell burned plastic/transistors on the card too. Seems he tried to put the stock fans back on and some how roasted the card. Sadly, as a business seller on eBay I can't do much - called eBay they said report him, but that doesn't get my money back, or the card! I'm never selling a card on eBay again and paying for someone else's mistake. Especially given the guy is stating that I must have shipped him a dodgy card to begin with, even though it was shown as working in a video in the description.

Unbelievable , not really sure what you can do in this ****** situation if eBay won't help.... maybe PayPal?

 

[psycho_t]

Update if anyone is interested in the 2080ti I sold on eBay last week and they guy said it was faulty. Got it back today, shockingly poorly packed. Checked it over and it's dead. I can smell burned plastic/transistors on the card too. Seems he tried to put the stock fans back on and some how roasted the card. Sadly, as a business seller on eBay I can't do much - called eBay they said report him, but that doesn't get my money back, or the card! I'm never selling a card on eBay again and paying for someone else's mistake. Especially given the guy is stating that I must have shipped him a dodgy card to begin with, even though it was shown as working in a video in the description.

Hope you checked the serial number...

 

[Jessy Causey]

Anybody know whats going on with orders. Any updates. Havent been able to sift through all 250+ pages

 

[darkBytes]

I've got a 3080 tuf ordered here and an evga at ther other place (intended to cancle one if the other came through).
So thats like £1400 in limbo until I don't know when. I've decided to cancle both , ive got a 2080ti on an aio that runs like a dream , so the only real gain for me was the hdmi 2.1 for my TV, I can live with 60hrtz @ 4k for a while.

Going to wait , see if a 3080 super drops next year.

 

[dazzlaa]

Update if anyone is interested in the 2080ti I sold on eBay last week and they guy said it was faulty. Got it back today, shockingly poorly packed. Checked it over and it's dead. I can smell burned plastic/transistors on the card too. Seems he tried to put the stock fans back on and some how roasted the card. Sadly, as a business seller on eBay I can't do much - called eBay they said report him, but that doesn't get my money back, or the card! I'm never selling a card on eBay again and paying for someone else's mistake. Especially given the guy is stating that I must have shipped him a dodgy card to begin with, even though it was shown as working in a video in the description.

Sad times... 2 wrongs don't make a right but I would 100% be following their profile and watching for anything worthwhile they sell.

 

[Julian Aguilera]

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.

All it's doing is delaying us Brits every more when you do this, not like the stock situation is any better here, infact probably worse, since likes of EVGA are prioritising USA over anywhere else let alone the UK. Really need enlightning as to way you you Americans would do this, what's the reason?

Simply it's just the ability to pre order, nothing else. Also we don't have Micro Center readily available across the nation, it's in only a couple of states and at max 2 per state.

 

[Sparx]

It's definitely true. I have tried multiple channels. I didn't get an email from Rich apologising for the error and telling me to simply place another order which I have done. Can't afford to be ripped off like this and incredibly frustrating to be ignored. Not sure what else I can do now

I just told you lol - post a thread in the private forum I linked for customer services.

They'll sort you out in terms of the cost difference I expect if your 2nd order meant you paid a higher price. Not sure if they can amend your queue position like but hey...

 

[Dannyr90]

Anybody know whats going on with orders. Any updates. Havent been able to sift through all 250+ pages

posting the same message over and over again isn't going to help you, have a look through the posts that have been put up already with updates

 

[EnderX]

Anybody got a Eagle card yet I was 141 in queue

 

[danmackers]

Update if anyone is interested in the 2080ti I sold on eBay last week and they guy said it was faulty. Got it back today, shockingly poorly packed. Checked it over and it's dead. I can smell burned plastic/transistors on the card too. Seems he tried to put the stock fans back on and some how roasted the card. Sadly, as a business seller on eBay I can't do much - called eBay they said report him, but that doesn't get my money back, or the card! I'm never selling a card on eBay again and paying for someone else's mistake. Especially given the guy is stating that I must have shipped him a dodgy card to begin with, even though it was shown as working in a video in the description.

That really sucks - I use ebay a lot for smaller stuff, but that's the exact kind of horror story that just makes me reluctant to ever bother with something like that. I don't even understand buying that specific card if you wanted to return it to stock anyway? Definitely sounds like someone unable to realise he was above his head.

Do you mark any of your products with a UV pen? I've done that in the past to avoid scams where people buy one thing, then send back a broken version of the same thing. I usually make a specific mark in a discrete place with a UV pen where I can prove which item is mine even if they swap stickers, etc

 

[MusoStu]

Unbelievable , not really sure what you can do in this ****** situation if eBay won't help.... maybe PayPal?

It's through eBay business payments which was introduced a couple of months ago, no more PayPal (thankfully). Still, eBays word is final and as a business seller we have to offer 14 day returns, no matter what.

 

[Dannyr90]

It's through eBay business payments which was introduced a couple of months ago, no more PayPal (thankfully). Still, eBays word is final and as a business seller we have to offer 14 day returns, no matter what.

Wow.... I certainly won't be selling any large value items on eBay going forwards!

 

[MusoStu]

Hope you checked the serial number...

I did, it was the first thing I did. They match. I will send it to EVGA, they may, just may repair it - I could catch them in a generous mood haha.

 

[Jeeva]

Anybody know whats going on with orders. Any updates. Havent been able to sift through all 250+ pages

Yes, for updates to that go have a look at the order updates thread \/.

 

[Kushan]

Update if anyone is interested in the 2080ti I sold on eBay last week and they guy said it was faulty. Got it back today, shockingly poorly packed. Checked it over and it's dead. I can smell burned plastic/transistors on the card too. Seems he tried to put the stock fans back on and some how roasted the card. Sadly, as a business seller on eBay I can't do much - called eBay they said report him, but that doesn't get my money back, or the card! I'm never selling a card on eBay again and paying for someone else's mistake. Especially given the guy is stating that I must have shipped him a dodgy card to begin with, even though it was shown as working in a video in the description.

That sucks! I had a similar issue with ebay, sold my Vive to a guy who said it "wasn't compatible". I contacted ebay, ebay didn't want to know at all and just refunded his money without me even getting the vive back! Livid, not used ebay since.

 

[Jeeva]

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

That's... not how any of that works.

 

[MusoStu]

That really sucks - I use ebay a lot for smaller stuff, but that's the exact kind of horror story that just makes me reluctant to ever bother with something like that. I don't even understand buying that specific card if you wanted to return it to stock anyway? Definitely sounds like someone unable to realise he was above his head.

Do you mark any of your products with a UV pen? I've done that in the past to avoid scams where people buy one thing, then send back a broken version of the same thing. I usually make a specific mark in a discrete place with a UV pen where I can prove which item is mine even if they swap stickers, etc

I was in two minds on selling it there and took as many precautions as I could, but still, you have to rely on the buyer being honest. Sadly in this case he wasn't. The serial number matches on the board, with the one I originally registered with EVGA.

 

[SkinSpotlights]

Summary of the Strix quick look video:

Bloke "had a few minutes alone with a Strix, so he asked for a screwdriver."
- Not sure if it's a vapor chamber
- Definitely a massive cooler (quite heavy)
- Direct contact with the memory, power stages, etc
- Card has "an impressive PCB" (sorry, just typing it as it comes)
- Aluminium shroud has a thermal pad for some of the power stages
- Backplate has thermal pads, also thick-ish aluminium
- PCB ends at the power connectors (which should shorten the card significantly if moving to water)
- There are a few empty connectors on the card that may be usable to "change voltage on the fly"
- Nothing spectacular on the back
- Additional shunt resistor on the back?

Intrigue.

Hopefully buildzoid can quickly rush out a pcb breakdown and gave us some good insights on whether they really went hard and did good on it.

Might pull up some TUF pcb layout and compare the two, I know the strix has extra power stages vs the TUF right now but thats all I really can tell.