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a nordic retailer got tired of being asked about stock and produced this:

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So how can competitors display exact figures (be it for orders placed or orders shipped) and OCUK say they can't do it cause their partners don't allow it, when the competitors have the same exact partners? More importantly Gibbo once gave an exact figure for MSI Trio, and yet this week we were back to vague figures with small, ok etc

Additionally a UK competitor has schedules weeks in advance, yet OCUK is only able to give out shipment information a day before arrival.
 
Nooblet said:
So how can competitors display exact figures and OCUK say they can't do it cause their partners don't allow it, when the competitors have the same exact partners? More importantly Gibbo once gave an exact figure for MSI Trio, and yet this week we were back to vague figures with small, ok etc
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Because it is all delay tactics to keep hold of money longer. Short term gains at cost of long term security. I am giving to 19th to give time for updates + AMD news. But honestly already 90% canceling due to 20g rumors on top, because at this rate we will be getting our orders while 20gig are out.
 
Lastof said:
Lets be honest here, that is EXACTLY the point I'm trying to make. This took half an hour of my time to collect info already in the spreadsheet and that I remember being posted here. I strongly suspect that if they got one of the customer service people to spend 30 minutes to an hour twice a week collecting info from their team and posting it the reduction in calls and webnotes they have to deal with alonr would more than make up for the time spent actually updating us, and you know, they'd actually be updating us.

I'm not really bothered about the wait, I was expecting it to be bad when everywhere selling the cards couldn't cope with the load, but the nearly zero actual info is irritating.
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You're exactly right, It really comes across that they simply don't care enough to do something you say you've knocked up in less than an hour. (Good job by the way!)

I feel the reason they're being vague is because they know the majority of us aren't getting cards anytime soon and they're delaying the inevitable cancellations as long as possible. They've dug a hole that is too deep to get out of now, even if they start being more honest, the long term damage has been done. I doubt it will really harm them significantly over the long term, we're a minority of their customers (hence the lack of care I imagine), but I know I'll be looking elsewhere in future. I can't stand how little respect has been shown for their customers.

All I can imagine is every time any sort of official update post is made, it's with a long... drawn out exasperated sigh. "Oh god I've got to throw a bone to the ungrateful bunch of morons" again. Seems like once the majority of the forum stops kissing OcUKs rear (at least in this section) we're too much hassle.

It's amazing how far honest and apologetic engagement can go. Even if it's not helpful, and even if you get some people raging that "that's not good enough"... a lot of people are just happy feeling like they're taken into account. Rather than... y'know... completely and utterly ignored.

Even if I'm totally and utterly wrong, which I often am, that is the impression they're giving off. And that impression leaves people cold.

It's a real shame, the moderation team has and is still doing a great job keeping up on things. To the point that they don't really need to do much other than have the actual staff engage just a little.
 
mrozik said:
Ima wait 1 more week if no Eagles arrive ima just buy off ebay, this is just dumb im so ****** off at Gigabyte and Overclockers for lying
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Don't buy off ebay if you can wait. See what AMD have to offer. Even if you've absolutely no interest at all in AMD, perhaps a competing card/cards will take some of the premium off of the 3000 card scalping. Maybe. Probably not.
 
Humbucker said:
a nordic retailer got tired of being asked about stock and produced this:
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Got a few on order there, so they also serve all the scandinavian countries and Germany too.
But you can clearly see its not a supply issue, clearly demand issue, who would have known that more than 500 people in all these countries would have wanted a 3080 after a month.
 
Lastof said:
I've decided that in addition to my spreadsheet of queue data (submit your data here!) I'm going to start trying to provide the bi-weekly or so summary of the shipments being made and other info that I feel OC should be doing. Hopefully this will inspire them to actually do it themselves. Collaboration and suggestions for improvments in future updates are appreciated.

Unofficial Overclockers 30 Series Update

This is an unofficial bi-weekly summary of overclockers.co.uk's 30 Series card shipments and other info gathered by the overclockers forum members with the aim to both help people get updates on how shipments and stock levels are going without having to search around, and encorage overclockers to provide more detailed updates themselves by providing a format to follow and an example of what we'd like. Since all this info is detective work, and second or third hand, please remember that it is just guesswork and shouldn't be taken as gospel.

Shipments this week

In the week since the queue emails went out, which provide us with a much better data source for shipments, overclockers have shipped out a limited number of cards from 4 manufaturers.

ASUS: A very small shipment of TUF OC cards originally expected Tuesday was delayed till Wednesday. The shipment had around 14 3090 TUF OCs and 8 3080 TUF OCs, which were immediately shipped out to the customers at the start of the queue. A queue update was sent to those still waiting on Thursday. Likely due to errors in the original queue calculation that have now been fixed some of those early in the queue only moved 7 or 6 places. Hopefully the queue calculations are now all correct.

Gigabyte: A small shipment of Gigabyte 3080 cards arrived on Wednesday. 11 Aorus MASTER and 13 Vision OC cards were despatched to customers, and an update to those queue was sent out on Thursday. Overclocker's supply lead Gibbo also reported that some Gaming OC cards were included in this batch, but no queue update has been sent to that queue, and if any were shipped it was less than 5. Whether any Gaming OC actually shipped is a matter of debate among the forum members.

MSI: A reasonable shipment of MSI Ventus cards was expected and arrived on Wednesday. Between 50 and 53 3080 Ventus cards, and possibly up to 20 3090 Ventus cards, shipped out to customers. A queue update for the 3080s saw people near the front of the queue moving 50 places, but after the queue update was sent the 53rd in the original queue reported a new shipment email, so it is possible more shipped after the queue update. Only one forum customer for the 3090, who was first in the list, reported shipment of a 3090, but another forum member ordered one over the phone after shipment was reported, and was told they were now 1st in the list, and 20 had gone out earlier that day. So far MSI seem to have the most reliable shipments coming in to overclockers (shipped on 18th, 21st, 24th, 29th and 7th. 29th was 30 3080 Trios and 7th was 50 3080 + 20 3090 Ventus). Their 3080 queues are however some of the longest.

Zotac: A small shipment of Zotac Trinity OCs arrived on Thursday. 36 3080 Trinity OC and 4 3090 Trinity shipped out. These were neither reported before or after in the official thread, and an email update hasn't gone out to the queue, which suggests that, unlike ASUS and MSI, Zotac might not be letting overclockers know that they are enroute (and whoever presses the queue update button never got the memo?).

Watchdogs Legion and GeForce Now Promotion codes.

There have been a number of people who have recieved orders but not recieved a promotional code. Within a day of the 3080 launch Gibbo had reported that they only recieved 1000 codes, and so had removed them from the listing while seeking more from Nvidia. Based on the shipments we've seen so far it seems unlikely that overclockers have shipped more than 1000 cards at this point. It seems likely that those who haven't recieved codes so far are 3090 orders and 3080 cards like the Gigabyte Vision OC that didn't go on sale till after the promise of codes were removed from the listings.

One customer has been told by customer service that they are still trying to source more codes from Nvidia, and that if and when they recieve them they will provide them to all 30 series customers.

This doesn't solve the problems that they certainly sold more than 1000 cards before the site worked enough that they could remove the listing, or that the codes are only redeemable till the 30th of November, and many might be waiting longer than that.

Summary

Shipments appear to be increasing in size for at least some of the AIBs (MSI and Zotac), but others are still lacking, and the split of OC vs non-OC is disappointing. Gibbo has reported that board partners have told him "production volumes are expecting to ramp up towards end of the end of this month meaning deliveries arriving later this month should be a little better volume wise towards end of October with November increasing again", so hopefully we start seeing that in the next week or two.

Overclockers could still improve their communication game, rather than leaving us to try to piece together info from shipping reports and second or third hand info others have got from customer service.

If you'd like to contribute to future updates I'm going to start collating info in this google doc, feel free to add comments with useful info, including the source. Next update is planned for midweek, ideally Wednesday, but it'll be held till Thursday if no cards have shipped yet. Hopefully we can eventually get overclockers to start doing something like this to try to manage expectations and keep us up to date.

I've also posted this in it's own thread here.
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Give this man a Ferrari
 
Does anyone have any news on the 3080 Aorus Xtreme cards? The masters have already been shipped out, but no release date for the Xtreme that I can see, besides October some time.
 
Parsley said:
.............It's a real shame, the moderation team has and is still doing a great job keeping up on things. To the point that they don't really need to do much other than have the actual staff engage just a little.
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Hi mate,

Thanks and we are trying to engage with the shop and passing on some of these comments to highlight what's going on?

We're not sure exactly what's happening behind the scenes with this but we, as a team are pushing for more info for you guys and gals :)
 
Space Monkey said:
Hi mate,

Thanks and we are trying to engage with the shop and passing on some of these comments to highlight what's going on?

We're not sure exactly what's happening behind the scenes with this but we, as a team are pushing for more info for you guys and gals :)
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Three cheers for monkey as well!
Hurrah hoorah hoorah!
 
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