That would mean that Gibbo's updates don't reflect the real quantities of stock they get, and that email queue updates aren't sent after every shipment as promised.
no one, OcUk or otherwise is going to reveal exact quantities of stock they receive. To do so would be handing information directly to commercial rivals in relation to how big a partner they are considered.
can we have proof? or is this ocuk elitist lecture
No you can't have proof, but it's not an elitist lecture. Someone quoted the above regarding biggest NVIDIA partner, and then directly used it to bash availability of ASUS products.
I honestly give up - a quick look at one of the "competitor" forums suggest that their stock situation is far worse, and they haven't even offered queue position emails yet.
The grass isn't necessarily greener.
no one knows how many cards have been sold in the UK so far, or how the stock was distributed.
Also, not everyone who ordered a card/or has received a card posts on a forum to say so - A good quantity of cards shipped by OcUK may be to people who have not got, or have no interest in signing up to the forums.
By all means get the pitchforks out for OcUK, but if you do you need to get them out at every other UK supplier, board partners, and even NVIDIA.