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Harmoniser said:
one thing OC have done which I like, is the fact I can join a queue, I don’t have constantly check if stock is appearing for sale. But a nice table showing back log and expected delivery dates would good. Might save them having to deal with lots of emails too
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2 ways of doing things I guess.....personally I prefer the method of not accepting orders for something you have no idea how or when you will fulfil them.
Doesn’t really matter I guess
 
We might be expecting a large shipment of cards pretty soon. Was looking at Weibo (Chinese twitter) today and people are saying that loads of RTX 3000 cards will be manufactured. This is because 11/11 is approaching, which is the biggest cyber shopping day in China, like the Black Friday in the west. Let's see what will happen in the next few weeks.
 
Harmoniser said:
one thing OC have done which I like, is the fact I can join a queue, I don’t have constantly check if stock is appearing for sale. But a nice table showing back log and expected delivery dates would good. Might save them having to deal with lots of emails too
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And what happens if OCUK go out of business in the time you are waiting? Your 'investment' in a new GPU is gone. Even eBay has a requirement in place for sellers listing items as pre-order that the item must be available within 30 days, is this always adhered to? Of course not but proper retail organisations should be held to a higher standard than Del Boy working out of their garage.

Retailers should only accept pre-orders for the number of cards they have confirmed as allocated to them. And if cards have been allocated then they will know when they are going to be delivered so can communicate the expected ship date to you.

Having worked as a buyer for a large online store that procured goods from UK, Europe, Asia and USA, I never once placed an order with a supplier or directly from the manufacturer and didn't know when stock would arrive (at least ballpark to the month if not the week). Quantity and due date information for that product was passed to the website for customer visibility and if desired, we could enable pre-orders to be taken up to a set quantity (either partial or all of the volume expected).

OCUK is banking £millions in pre-orders for stock which may never arrive.
 
Scott Painting said:
Anybody have an idea how long the TUF OC que is? I’m going to cancel my stric non oc 3080 and go for the 3090 oc I think
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Highway_UK said:
Not sure off hand, but it's a lot shorter than the non-OC queues, I ordered mine on 7th Oct and already down to #9 in queue as of yesterday, if that helps
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I'd say definitely under 30; I ordered on 13th October, was position 26 on 14th and now position 19 as of yesterday.
 
Quare Crack said:
And what happens if OCUK go out of business in the time you are waiting? Your 'investment' in a new GPU is gone. Even eBay has a requirement in place for sellers listing items as pre-order that the item must be available within 30 days, is this always adhered to? Of course not but proper retail organisations should be held to a higher standard than Del Boy working out of their garage.

Retailers should only accept pre-orders for the number of cards they have confirmed as allocated to them. And if cards have been allocated then they will know when they are going to be delivered so can communicate the expected ship date to you.

Having worked as a buyer for a large online store that procured goods from UK, Europe, Asia and USA, I never once placed an order with a supplier or directly from the manufacturer and didn't know when stock would arrive (at least ballpark to the month if not the week). Quantity and due date information for that product was passed to the website for customer visibility and if desired, we could enable pre-orders to be taken up to a set quantity (either partial or all of the volume expected).

OCUK is banking £millions in pre-orders for stock which may never arrive.
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Begs the question and something I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. I assume the AIB's / distributors invoice OC on the goods delivered thus far, as opposed to our pre-order cash coming in one door and straight out of the other? Holding onto the cash doesn't sit well with me as they are double profiting via interest on pre-order sales and markup. I would love to know how it actually works and if this is even legal. I'm on the cusp of chucking the towel in, waiting and shopping elsewhere as Overclockers have no more weight despite offering a pre-order option.
 
Ive searched through the consumer law about this, there is nothing illegal. It's no different from paying a deposit for something like a car and waiting a year to eventually get it. I agree, they should very much stop the pre-orders, don't allow any more, as at the moment they are gaining interest on our money.

It would be okay, if it was a small amount, for instance, I have an Analogue Pocket on preorder, wont see that until March+ next year, but was only 200ish, but there were limited amounts, and stopped going on sale as soon as they sold out.

But id rather be in a queue than constantly checking sites all the time. Its a no win situation really, i'm a patient man, so not too bothered. Plus ive used OC before many times, no problems.
 
Several members have suggested that ocUK is somehow profiting off our preorder money. I highly doubt it. Current interest rates are laughably low and any other kind of investment over such a short time period would be akin to gambling.
 
HeatSink said:
Several members have suggested that ocUK is somehow profiting off our preorder money. I highly doubt it. Current interest rates are laughably low and any other kind of investment over such a short time period would be akin to gambling.
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OCUK are German owned. OCUK are just collecting salaries.
 
Edlin said:
Begs the question and something I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. I assume the AIB's / distributors invoice OC on the goods delivered thus far, as opposed to our pre-order cash coming in one door and straight out of the other? Holding onto the cash doesn't sit well with me as they are double profiting via interest on pre-order sales and markup. I would love to know how it actually works and if this is even legal. I'm on the cusp of chucking the towel in, waiting and shopping elsewhere as Overclockers have no more weight despite offering a pre-order option.
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I assume they have payment terms with whoever they are buying from. Absolute minimum where I worked was 30 days but really, for larger suppliers/manufacturers 60 or 90 days were not uncommon. Terms may start following invoice or delivery.
 
Fryan.F said:
We might be expecting a large shipment of cards pretty soon. Was looking at Weibo (Chinese twitter) today and people are saying that loads of RTX 3000 cards will be manufactured. This is because 11/11 is approaching, which is the biggest cyber shopping day in China, like the Black Friday in the west. Let's see what will happen in the next few weeks.
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Of course loads are being made. Just one Asus factory (and they have lots) can churn out 30,000 3080s per day if they wanted.

That assumes they get 30,000 chips a day from Nvidia and the 300,000 memory chips per day..................
 
HeatSink said:
Several members have suggested that ocUK is somehow profiting off our preorder money. I highly doubt it. Current interest rates are laughably low and any other kind of investment over such a short time period would be akin to gambling.
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Yeah it would also mean OC have a financial wizzz kid who can somehow move money around. Right now this probably sitting in a ledger call liabilities, because people might cancel their orders.
 
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