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

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HACO said:
If you cancel your order, you should lose your place. You'd be ordering the new card now and should be placed at the end of that queue. Other people ordered that card before you did.
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seems OcUK have a different view, so if you ordered a less popular card late in the day in the hope of getting an earlier shipment you're now at risk of being completely rekt :eek:
 
malccy said:
I asked this morning on phone with OC about arranging my recent Asus Tuf order to be placed in the queue where I cancelled my MSi 3080 and was told it would be 'fraud'. Really?

Guy seemed to have a bad attitude this morning. Great customer service.
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Yes, really.

Each card is a separate queue. It's not just 1 queue for "a 3080"
 
BigBANGtheory said:
seems OcUK have a different view, so if you ordered a less popular card late in the day in the hope of getting an earlier shipment you're now at risk of being completely rekt :eek:
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An OCUK rep was on here about 100 pages back and said that if you change order you go to the back of the queue. Wish I could find the post but I don't have 3 hours to sift through!
 
Xyclops said:
Or imagine you are queuing at a canteen with a lot of hungry people. Before you get there you think you want meatballs, but then whilst queueing you do some Googling and see that they use horsemeat in the meatballs so you decide to go for jacket potato instead. Would the person behind you in the queue that wanted jacket potato complain that you took his potato because he heard you talking earlier that you wanted meatballs?
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That's a terrible analogy because in your example there is 1 queue where in this reality the number of queues = the number of cards. All the cards cost different, there is not "a 3080 queue"

The correct example for your analogy is if there is a meatball queue and a jacket potato queue. Your 1st in the meatball line and I'm 2nd in the potato line. You switch lines and take the last potato from me. Yes that's unfair
 
Can we use something other than meatballs and potato in the analogy. I am trying to think of something for lunch and now fancy both....
 
Helium17 said:
That's a terrible analogy because in your example there is 1 queue where in this reality the number of queues = the number of cards. All the cards cost different, there is not "a 3080 queue"

The correct example for your analogy is if there is a meatball queue and a jacket potato queue. Your 1st in the meatball line and I'm 2nd in the potato line. You switch lines and take the last potato from me. Yes that's unfair
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Hahaha brilliant. This is a better example.
 
neikosr0x said:
when did you swap?
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Friday last week.
I got one of the managers, he was cool - left a note on my account.

The situation that actually exists is that I'll either get my original EVGA Black 3080, or the GB Vision 3080. My queue place is the same and both cards will be at whatever GTM pricing i got when i ordered on the 17th.

I asked for an email confirming but didn't get one. However, when i called back yesterday to check, another guy saw what he agreed.
 
Stephen Garner said:
Friday last week.
I got one of the managers, he was cool - left a note on my account.

The situation that actually exists is that I'll either get my original EVGA Black 3080, or the GB Vision 3080. My queue place is the same and both cards will be at whatever GTM pricing i got when i ordered on the 17th.

I asked for an email confirming but didn't get one. However, when i called back yesterday to check, another guy saw what he agreed.
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This is what I don't understand. How is your queue place the same for both. You ordered the Black at a specific time. You then asked to switch to a different card. This card already has it's own queue. Your place in the queue for the black != Vision. They're mutually exclusive. As another person has said, it's like me queue for a ps5 then changing my mind and switching to an Xbox.
 
Just to reiterate what a few other people have said on these forums, I would really like to try and shed a positive light on this whole situation.

  • We all knew stock was going to be very limited at the start of the launch, and my giddy aunt it has been.
  • Stock is now starting to roll in and hopefully we will see a variety of different AIB's fulfilling orders.
  • Sure communication could have been better, and having a proper que system like other competitors would have been great. But isn't hindsight a wonderful thing! Just as long as you learn from your mistakes.
  • After looking at variety of threads and videos there does not seem to be a hardware issue with the new 3000 series cards.
Overall I'm staying positive, 2020 has already had to much dread and fear.

And to finish the best thing about the launch is this thread! It's been a rollercoaster.
 
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