• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

*** NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3090 SERIES STOCK SITUATION - NO COMPETITOR DISCUSSION ***

Pre order available now from somewhere else for Aorus Master but f##k me it's expensive. 6/11 expected so not too long to wait. Might appeal to someone.
 
Cancelled my strix oc, was queue position 396. Got a stock alert for the Gigabyte Aorus, says it'll be here by the 6th latest. I feel way better about this. Good luck, guys.
 
I've just put my name down for a EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 ULTRA.

It's £100+ cheaper. Lets see which turns up first.
 
Bruno.88 said:
after patiently reading all comments, theres something that i dont get it, like if its true the others sellers had more stock and sold more cards and still getting, why OCuk doesnt have too? I always tought ocuk was 1 of if not the biggest in uk in terms of pc parts sales.... im i missing something?
Click to expand...

I know asus put up an announcement earlier on that until they got big number out they were shipping small numbers by DHL express direct to their partner retailers and not shipping them via the distributors.

That might be the issue. OCUK wasnt listed as being a partner retailer but OCUK mother company was in Germany.

Obviously some of ocuk competitors in the UK will be getting them direct from Asus.

In normally times they would all go through distributors and then OCUK with its position and buying power would no doubt have the biggest slice of cards coming in. Asus shipping direct messes this up for now.
 
That doesn’t make sense however, prioritising “small retailers” over (supposedly) large retailers or partners or whatever you want to call these businesses. I don’t believe Asus or any other manufacturer would supply preferentially the “small” ones first
 
Greebo said:
I know asus put up an announcement earlier on that until they got big number out they were shipping small numbers by DHL express direct to their partner retailers and not shipping them via the distributors.

That might be the issue. OCUK wasnt listed as being a partner retailer but OCUK mother company was in Germany.

Obviously some of ocuk competitors in the UK will be getting them direct from Asus.

In normally times they would all go through distributors and then OCUK with its position and buying power would no doubt have the biggest slice of cards coming in. Asus shipping direct messes this up for now.
Click to expand...
Not necessarily. Distributor can cap the amount of goods you can buy from them to maintain fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Especially during pandemic.
 
Dilemma. I currently have an EVGA 3090 FTW Ultra in UK stock sat in my basket form delivery next day but after searching around I can only find one waterblock manufacturer currently mentioning they are making a block for it and wont be available until xmas.

That means taking my loop to bits, running on air for 2 months and then having to rebuild my loop.

Do i click buy or wait for the strix where I can get a block relatively quickly>
 
MultiDoc said:
That doesn’t make sense however, prioritising “small retailers” over (supposedly) large retailers or partners or whatever you want to call these businesses. I don’t believe Asus or any other manufacturer would supply preferentially the “small” ones first
Click to expand...

They didnt really. They said they would bypass the usual distributor route and ship direct to retailers who were Asus partners.

That will obviously include quite a few large retailers but may will miss some out.

There were other criteria like the retailers they ship to must have a strict one card per person order system etc.
 
Greebo said:
I know asus put up an announcement earlier on that until they got big number out they were shipping small numbers by DHL express direct to their partner retailers and not shipping them via the distributors.

That might be the issue. OCUK wasnt listed as being a partner retailer but OCUK mother company was in Germany.

Obviously some of ocuk competitors in the UK will be getting them direct from Asus.

In normally times they would all go through distributors and then OCUK with its position and buying power would no doubt have the biggest slice of cards coming in. Asus shipping direct messes this up for now.
Click to expand...

Did you pull this idea out of thin air? My reason for that is in fact Asus ROG in UK been telling us to keep placing pre-order with OcUK, other reason is also in fact that Nvidia website listing for RTX 3090 Strix only show up in OcUK as listed to order from while other models got other retailers on the list. Finally is that Nvidia listed where to buy with OcUK there rather than "mother" also OcUK already changed on who they are selling all rtx 3000 series to, that is to UK and Ireland only meaning we will get fair amount of cards not couple of fraction from "mother". I will agree with you if OcUK state that they get from "mother", however they never state that so it's fair to say OcUK also getting cards directly from Asus. We don't need any more negatives brewing up.

Just like one post pointing out that OcUK is simply a middle point and not manufacturer where they can whip out the cards out of thin air. OcUK been clear from day one that if you don't like being in the queue or see OcUK holding your money then you are free to cancel, however cancelling would mean it'll be longer wait, unless lighting had struck and you got from elsewhere. There are people who like to place an order and forget while there are others who just want to have it now. Those who want to have now tend to go toward whatever is available compare to those who know what they want.

final thing I like to say, for card being mark up, am sure there are good reason behind it. we need to bear in mind that air freight cost more also shop had to deal with all things going on behind the front counter that we don't see and those action drain staff times, someone had to cover the cost. if you don't want to pay mark up price then just don't order anything and wait until 2021, that all I can say.

I have massive respect for OcUK to deal with lot of people moaning while OcUK can do nothing about it but keep receiving those same information. apart from RTX 3000 issues, do you have any issues with OcUK? I think not so, be grateful.
 
Deniryer said:
Not necessarily. Distributor can cap the amount of goods you can buy from them to maintain fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Especially during pandemic.
Click to expand...

True but I meant with ocuk buying power with distributors, if they got 500 cards in for the Uk then ocuk could perhaps expect to secure 200 of them versus a little one man shop if he asked for 200 purely based on all the business ocuk does with that distributer.

Whereas is Asus are dhl expressing small quantities to partner retailers direct they may well just be sending everybody 10 cards each.
 
S7ree7figh7er said:
Did you pull this idea out of thin air? My reason for that is in fact Asus ROG in UK been telling us to keep placing pre-order with OcUK, other reason is also in fact that Nvidia website listing for RTX 3090 Strix only show up in OcUK as listed to order from while other models got other retailers on the list. Finally is that Nvidia listed where to buy with OcUK there rather than "mother" also OcUK already changed on who they are selling all rtx 3000 series to, that is to UK and Ireland only meaning we will get fair amount of cards not couple of fraction from "mother". I will agree with you if OcUK state that they get from "mother", however they never state that so it's fair to say OcUK also getting cards directly from Asus. We don't need any more negatives brewing up.

Just like one post pointing out that OcUK is simply a middle point and not manufacturer where they can whip out the cards out of thin air. OcUK been clear from day one that if you don't like being in the queue or see OcUK holding your money then you are free to cancel, however cancelling would mean it'll be longer wait, unless lighting had struck and you got from elsewhere. There are people who like to place an order and forget while there are others who just want to have it now. Those who want to have now tend to go toward whatever is available compare to those who know what they want.

final thing I like to say, for card being mark up, am sure there are good reason behind it. we need to bear in mind that air freight cost more also shop had to deal with all things going on behind the front counter that we don't see and those action drain staff times, someone had to cover the cost. if you don't want to pay mark up price then just don't order anything and wait until 2021, that all I can say.

I have massive respect for OcUK to deal with lot of people moaning while OcUK can do nothing about it but keep receiving those same information. apart from RTX 3000 issues, do you have any issues with OcUK? I think not so, be grateful.
Click to expand...

I am not pulling anything out of thin air, I am going on exactly what Asus posted directly about shipments to EU stores bypassing normal distributors and shipping direct and suggested that might be a reason why the normal massive buying power of OCUK hasn't leveraged any extra cards than its smaller competitors in the UK. Fact is Asus did not list OCUK as being one of the retailers they were shipping directly to. You go ask Asus why that is rather than have a go at me. The info Asus posted might be wrong, I don;t know. I was actually defending OCUK.:rolleyes:
 
Ok where did you get the information from as been looking at ROG website and looking at where to buy, it listed OcUK aswell. Would be good if you shared the Asus's post to allow others to read.

My problem is am struggling to share picture on post as it seem that picture dislike me.
 
S7ree7figh7er said:
Ok where did you get the information from as been looking at ROG website and looking at where to buy, it listed OcUK aswell. Would be good if you shared the Asus's post to allow others to read.

My problem is am struggling to share picture on post as it seem that picture dislike me.
Click to expand...

I will have to find it again, In have posted it several times on here though. It was from ASUS DE page earlier in the month. They were giving out for more information that what the Asus UK page or UK retailers were giving out.

And I am not saying ock isnt getting stock, just pointing out Asus are shipping directly using DHL express in small batches all all Asus stockists in the EU. Ocuk wont normally buy direct from Asus but through their distributors and hence wont perhaps have the usual leverage that they get many more cards than other UK outlets,

With previous graphics card launches, when they have been in short supply, ocuk were sometimes getting 100s of cards and other retailers were getting zero,.

I was just defending ocuk and saying things are currently different atm.#

I am sure once the large shipping containers land and go through the usual distribution centre, ocuk will start getting big numbers in, several times more than other retailers.

And its easy to look like you are shipping more cards if you are a smaller retailer and only took 10 pre orders compared to ocuk taken 2000 of a model and both of you receive 20 cards.

The other shop puts 10 up as being in stock whereas ocuk still has 1990 pre orders to get through.
 
Last edited:
Oh my TUF non-OC queue has shortened by 7... That's nice movement, considering that no cards have been received.
Current position: 52 (was 59).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom