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[FlipPop]

I wonder if you feel the same way with someone who queues for McDonalds and orders a BigMac, then changes their mind and orders a Chicken Sandwich, do you feel they should go to the back of the queue or be allowed to change their order whilst maintaining their queue position?

Think of it more as 2 separate queues, one for Big Mac, one for McChicken, you wait ages in the big mac queue, then you see the McChicken queue is going down faster, so you jump across and barge in front of a guy with his mouth watering for a McChicken who has waited as long as you, and push him back.

Sad thing is, you didn't even really want a McChicken, when he had his eyes on one all along.

 

[OG Don Mecca]

I wonder if you feel the same way with someone who queues for McDonalds and orders a BigMac, then changes their mind and orders a Chicken Sandwich, do you feel they should go to the back of the queue or be allowed to change their order whilst maintaining their queue position?

That depends are there limited supply of chicken sandwiches and the person behind has to go hungry for a prolonged period because of it?

If not then your comments is irrelevant

 

[OG Don Mecca]

Not quite the same thing now is it...

This^^

 

[TrM]

Think of it more as 2 separate queues, one for Big Mac, one for McChicken, you wait ages in the big mac queue, then you see the McChicken queue is going down faster, so you jump across and barge in front of a guy with his mouth watering for a McChicken who has waited as long as you, and push him back.

Sad thing is, you didn't even really want a McChicken, when he had his eyes on one all along.

now your just making me hungry for a mcdonalds

 

[OG Don Mecca]

Think of it more as 2 separate queues, one for Big Mac, one for McChicken, you wait ages in the big mac queue, then you see the McChicken queue is going down faster, so you jump across and barge in front of a guy with his mouth watering for a McChicken who has waited as long as you, and push him back.

Sad thing is, you didn't even really want a McChicken, when he had his eyes on one all along.

Also this ^^

 

[Zeed]

Hi, I'm a queue-switcher. I agree it's a dumb system but works in my favour, so I used it.

Here's my confirmations side-by-side. I was told by three different members of staff (two on Discord, and a third on the phone when paying the difference in price), that I'd be keeping my queue position based on my order number and time - you can see on the invoices that they're the same on old and new.

I agree it's an odd stance, and I don't like the idea of people switching just to get their card sooner. I switched for a number of reasons but will probably get the card later as a result - not by much, but a little later. I'm also higher up in the ASUS queue than I was in the Gigabyte one, which suggests less people ordered ASUS than Gigabyte, although not sure if that's useful or relevant.

thats 1 less for GB hbefore me then

 

[Harry_ui]

and nothing from Gibbo on this, ffs!

I've noticed Palit seem to be quite good on the customer front. Maybe because they have less of them but seems everyone always gets a good response directly. Used their stuff many times never an issue. I mean they are a really big OEM, frequently supply the Quadros and other industrial GPUs. Not sure why they aren't more popular? Maybe they are bigger in Asia

 

[Dean Guile]

I wonder if you feel the same way with someone who queues for McDonalds and orders a BigMac, then changes their mind and orders a Chicken Sandwich, do you feel they should go to the back of the queue or be allowed to change their order whilst maintaining their queue position?

That makes no sense, as all the food is under the same menu. Not like Graphics cards which are not, it's more like having a Mcdonalds and a Burger king in the same service station, and queues for both of them, you join the MC queue, and you see the BK one moving faster, you joined the queue at the same time as MAN A who joined BK queue, MAN A has now reached the front, and your queue has barely moved at mcdonalds, so you get annoyed and push in front of everybody else in the BK queue behind the MAN A currently at the front. Wrong on all levels.

 

[Matt25]

I wonder if you feel the same way with someone who queues for McDonalds and orders a BigMac, then changes their mind and orders a Chicken Sandwich, do you feel they should go to the back of the queue or be allowed to change their order whilst maintaining their queue position?

Your analogy is flawed. In McDonald's there is one queue where the the customer decides at the point of transaction - they are free to change their mind up to that point. In the 3080 scenario there are multiple queues, each for a different product, where someone changing their mind adversely affects positions in the other queues.

 

[Private Custard]

Not that I really care but I feel as if the time ordered should determine the placement in the new queue.

So if Sally (good ol' Sally) bought the MSI Trio OC at 14:21 and swapped to Asus TUF OC, anyone who had pre-ordered a TUF OC before her should still be placed in front.

ftfy

 

[Eiji]

I am really disgusted by being able to swap queues and keep your original order time... mmm ok let me look see what i can change too so to be able to get a card sooner.. joking of course .. BAD MOVE OCUK!!!!

+1

 

[Parsley]

1% aka me bashing em for crying. Some people need to get a life and that comes from ME so says allot man

You have your own special sort of life Zeed . Seems to keep you busy!

 

[Nooblet]

I've noticed Palit seem to be quite good on the customer front. Maybe because they have less of them but seems everyone always gets a good response directly. Used their stuff many times never an issue. I mean they are a really big OEM, frequently supply the Quadros and other industrial GPUs. Not sure why they aren't more popular? Maybe they are bigger in Asia

Palit is the largest vendor in the world that sells more cards than EVGA, MSI, ASUS combined and then some. Not really less customers hah. They aren't big in the west cause the west has a boner for MSI, EVGA and ASUS, but Palit is a force everywhere else and they also have subbrands like Galax, KFA2 and Gainward

 

[ceekay]

I wonder if you feel the same way with someone who queues for McDonalds and orders a BigMac, then changes their mind and orders a Chicken Sandwich, do you feel they should go to the back of the queue or be allowed to change their order whilst maintaining their queue position?

It works like this: McDonalds sells a finite amount of BigMacs and a finite amount of Chicken Sandwiches and each of their customers in the room have already made their choices. So the clients KNOW what they're getting. But somewhere in the line, somebody switches from Chicken Sandwich to BigMac, because he saw that the BigMacs go faster over the counter and are ready-made. And he's not the only one switching. So many of the clients who initially ordered BigMacs now have to either wait for more of them to be made, or switch to Chicken Sandwich, or leave because they don't like being treated like this.

 

[Harry_ui]

Palit is the largest vendor in the world that sells more cards than EVGA, MSI, ASUS combined and then some. Not really less customers hah

Hmm maybe it's just me then. They seem to have a pretty small presence in Europe and the USA when it comes to consumer level cards. Especially when compared to EVGA, MSI etc. A lot of that product must be industrial level or in the Asian market. Which I suppose would explain their English customer support being particularly responsive

 

[CarpeDiemPW]

I wonder if you feel the same way with someone who queues for McDonalds and orders a BigMac, then changes their mind and orders a Chicken Sandwich, do you feel they should go to the back of the queue or be allowed to change their order whilst maintaining their queue position?

Not the same at all. More like someone buys and pays for a Big Mac and sits to wait for it to be cooked. Next person buys and pays for a Chicken Sandwich and waits for it to be cooked. Chicken Sandwich turns up first, Big Mac purchaser says “Oi! I was here first. I’ll take your Chicken Sandwich instead thanks.”

You telling me you’d be okay with that?

 

[FlipPop]

You ain't gotta worried about that cuz I dint order till Sunday night (my first order was 15:47 on the 17 but instead of bing a asshat I canceled.. waited for refund and reordered different card

Respect

 

[rossiboy001]

So I did everything wrong. Instead of researching reviews and ordering after making a informed decision on the TUF OC at 7am the following morning and probably just one of a few at that time. I should have just ordered a USB cable like £2.99 at 2pm then next day or when ever amend my order to a £700 quid graphics card.

 

[nhornby51743]

and nothing from Gibbo on this, ffs!

Palit seem to be spot on. If manufacturers can confirm when stock should be available to retailers, why can't retailers be more clear what/when stock will be available to customers.

 

[Charliewt]

Still waiting on my refund from Saturday. Is there any admins that can help, as I'd rather not pay interest (credit card) on an item that I won't see for potentially a few months?..