Wow, that is horrendous. I'm sorry you had to deal with that, especially not receiving the item back. eBay is all about the buyer and they screw over the business user who generates all their income.
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ARCHIVE - *** NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080 SERIES STOCK SITUATION *** - NO COMPETITOR DISCUSSION
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Wow, that is horrendous. I'm sorry you had to deal with that, especially not receiving the item back. eBay is all about the buyer and they screw over the business user who generates all their income.
On the 17th of September Harrods launched their Christmas hampers, like the nVidia cards you can order one now and wait until near Christmas to receive it. The "Celebration of Christmas" hamper costs much the same as an RTX3080 at £750 and comes in two wicker hampers which you can use to pack your picnics in after its all consumed.
https://www.harrods.com/en-gb/shopping/harrods-celebration-of-christmas-hamper-15865647
There's also quite a lot of booze included so you can perhaps forget the long lonely wait for your graphics card to be despatched !
https://www.harrods.com/en-gb/shopping/harrods-celebration-of-christmas-hamper-15865647
There's also quite a lot of booze included so you can perhaps forget the long lonely wait for your graphics card to be despatched !
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Surely 14 days returns shouldn't apply to when the buyer decides to completely destroy the card right?
Could probably sort it out in small claims if you can be bothered to go through that hassle.
I really hope they can tell us a rough estimate based on our position in the line on when we will recieve the cards...
I sold my 1080 so I could get the 3080 (I knew it would be hard to get one, but I never thought it would be this hard. I was prepared to wait a month or so) and I need my computer ready before university starts otherwise il be stuck without a GPU.
So i basically need to know what queue im in so if I won't be getting my GPU before my course starts (Late october) then il have to cancel and buy something else that I can use until the 3080s become more available next year....
You would have thought after 6 days they could send out queue estimates to people
I sold my 1080 so I could get the 3080 (I knew it would be hard to get one, but I never thought it would be this hard. I was prepared to wait a month or so) and I need my computer ready before university starts otherwise il be stuck without a GPU.
So i basically need to know what queue im in so if I won't be getting my GPU before my course starts (Late october) then il have to cancel and buy something else that I can use until the 3080s become more available next year....
You would have thought after 6 days they could send out queue estimates to people
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So let me get this straight. Gibbo has just said any extra allocation has been blocked for OCUK as OCUK ship to the US and others, even though the US has their own stock. So any hope of anything being hurried up is wiped out because of this, shipping to America for an etailer from the UK, so cards get shipped internationally all the way to the UK, arrive at the UK, then get locally distributed to OCUK, then are shipped back out internationally again going back the same way it came, Air or sea, while all the while any extra allocation is scuppered because of this.
I think it is absolutely the RIGHT decision here to stop international orders from the USA or anywhere other than the UK.
I think it is absolutely the RIGHT decision here to stop international orders from the USA or anywhere other than the UK.
Me too. IMO I don't even understand why they are still shopping orders to the USA and other places. Yes it will be annoying to those people who bought them but OCUK should stick to serving their UK customers... customers which have been loyal to them for years and years. Considering their UK customers will still have to wait a very long time to get their orders, doesn't seem fair that we are also competing with people ordering from other countries, when those countries have their own E-Tailers to use.
I can some-what understand keeping the EU orders, but keeping USA orders is ridiculous, and personally I think they should cancel all orders from the US atleast..
> Gibbo has just said any extra allocation has been blocked for OCUK as OCUK ship to the US and others
No, what he said was OcUK wasn't getting extra allocation for being an international retailer. No blocking, just no extra. Which makes sense.
No, what he said was OcUK wasn't getting extra allocation for being an international retailer. No blocking, just no extra. Which makes sense.
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Gibbo is saying that, as OC don't get extra allocation (to take into consideration that they ship internationally) they are restricting all future sales to only the UK. They aren't getting any less allocation than they would have at the beginning of this whole thing. He's just pointing out that they aren't getting any extra allowance for being an international vendor - they're still being considered a UK stockist.
What? No, where did you get that? OCUK can supply to whomever they want, but their priority is UK customers. They have said nothing about their own allocation being changed, just that they're not allowing more US orders temporarily.
Don't you have seller protection for physical goods? Usually ebay will give you your money back, either that or Paypal
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I've been using OCUK for years it just so happened that when I moved from the UK short term that they're an international seller so I carried on using them..
Not to mention that the reason I'm not in the UK is due to being in the military and currently based abroad attached to a foreign military at the moment so no British Forces Post Office to have it sent through, by the way I'm not saying I should get special treatment but I certainly shouldn't be in a disadvantage due to my job..
Also what's up with the 15 post limit?
The old fashion way of refreshing as fast as I could... It is after all called the World Wide Web... Also as I've said before the country I'm in have none allocated at all
I am a loyal UK customer that just so happens to be living in the UAE at the moment due to the situation posted above..
Damn man, I’m sorry this happened it really sucks.
Whenever I get my 3080 I’ll have no use of my 1080 and I’m honestly just considering putting it in a build for my friend who wants to get into pc gaming mainly for reasons like this. Can just see someone buying it and then claiming it’s faulty weeks later and as you said originally eBay always seems to side with the buyer.
If you report him, is there no chance that eBay could do anything about it?
Cool, keep checking that update sticky \/
Antispam for members below a certain post count, AFAIK.
You would think, but eBay is next to useless on that front. I've contacted them several times about it and they listen, but don't hear what I'm saying and then spout the usual "You can file a complaint about the customer .... blah blah blah... thank you for shopping on eBay. Bye!"
I have told the buyer that if EVGA turn around and say it's damaged, rather than faulty, I will send the card back to him with an invoice and costs and then give him 7 days to pay with a view of going through small claims... and I will, because I'm tired of people like that.
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Sooo silly question, because of allocations are OC prioritising UK customers, and for the US and EU people that ordered, is it still first come first serves bases for them?
I did report him and he got a slapped wrist of eBay, that's it.
Biggest paper launch ever. No stock to begin with.
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lol at hating on foreign buyers. I've ordered from New Egg US on numerous times for lesser stocked parts. Don't forget OCUK is owned by Case King, too. You might as well be ordering from Germany in a sense. We're all in the same boat...
This thread is great for discussions regarding what stock is like, sharing order progress etc
But the constant "when will this card be shipped" "any updates when I will get mine?" "how many cards will you have in 3 weeks on Thursday at 4:24pm?" is destroying my soul
Read the update thread! Go back a few pages and read what's already been said. Surely no-one can be finding this helpful? Sifting through 10 pages of mystic meg questions every day?
But the constant "when will this card be shipped" "any updates when I will get mine?" "how many cards will you have in 3 weeks on Thursday at 4:24pm?" is destroying my soul
Read the update thread! Go back a few pages and read what's already been said. Surely no-one can be finding this helpful? Sifting through 10 pages of mystic meg questions every day?
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