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RYZEN 5000 SERIES NOW ONLINE - 5950X, 5900X, 5800X & 5600X COMING NOV 5TH AT 5PM **NO COMPETITORS**

I was 211 on the queue for a 5950x when I got my conformation email on the 5th. Well the 6900xt isn't being released till the 8th of December so if it takes a while it won't matter as I wouldn't be able to build the PC anyway.
 
kitch9 said:
Estore owner here. My website can allocate stock in the basket and release it after 10 minutes or days if I want.

I don't run that way as standard, it allocates on payment but I can if I want to. During periods of high demand for instance
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I would think that a biggish store would have *thousands* of people - maybe per day - putting things in their basket and then just closing the tab. Heck I do it myself, often just to check delivery charges (a lot of stores require you to add stuff to the cart before showing you delivery costs).
 
muziqaz said:
To be fair, if ocUK wants the hints to competitor gone, they need to clean up their own act. The only reason I went with other guys was because ocUK crashed immediately clocks punched 2pm. I had them as 1st port of call, yet they let me down. I'm not gonna sit around and praise ocUK for their crappy preparation for launch day. It is what it is, either you man up and sort yourself out, or you lose customers, simple as that.
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kitch9 said:
Estore owner here. My website can allocate stock in the basket and release it after 10 minutes or days if I want.

I don't run that way as standard, it allocates on payment but I can if I want to. During periods of high demand for instance
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If a store has a web ordering system that cannot cope at peak, could it use the services of [a well known massive online supplier of everything imaginable] to sell on its behalf?
 
kitch9 said:
Estore owner here. My website can allocate stock in the basket and release it after 10 minutes or days if I want.

I don't run that way as standard, it allocates on payment but I can if I want to. During periods of high demand for instance
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That seems like a perfect way to do it.
Standard would be to allocate on payment so you don't risk losing customers because someone else put item in the basket and closed the browser.
High demand period (especially when you know you will sell out stock in seconds) it should be allocated when item is in the basket, for something like 10-15 minutes. And on top of that a queue of people that tried to put item in a basket but they couldn't because it was allocated to others, in case someone decides not to purchase the item will get into the basket of first one in that queue. That way you do not disappoint your customers.
There are places that do exactly that :cool:
 
Boxfreshchris said:
Some 5800X's just popped up on Amazon for £450, wasn't sure if I wanted the 5800 or the 5600, so I dithered, and they went instantly
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Amazon seems to be a very bot-friendly shop, so they got all CPUs instantly. I think it's the middle of the week delivery that was mentioned coming to OC as well. Shown and vanished. I barely managed to add one to the basket after many tries, but couldn't even click pay before all were gone - and that's without website crashing. Can't compete with bots :/
 
Tinek said:
Amazon seems to be a very bot-friendly shop, so they got all CPUs instantly. I think it's the middle of the week delivery that was mentioned coming to OC as well. Shown and vanished. I barely managed to add one to the basket after many tries, but couldn't even click pay before all were gone - and that's without website crashing. Can't compete with bots :/
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EVGA has various anti-bot measures in place when buying direct from their website, I can see why Amazon don't care if bots/scalpers buy all their stock, but you'd like to think smaller retailers would try to stop it. If a genuine customer can't get hold of the CPU they want then they won't be needing to upgrade their other components, so by allowing bots these websites cut off their nose to spite their face.
 
Boxfreshchris said:
EVGA has various anti-bot measures in place when buying direct from their website, I can see why Amazon don't care if bots/scalpers buy all their stock, but you'd like to think smaller retailers would try to stop it. If a genuine customer can't get hold of the CPU they want then they won't be needing to upgrade their other components, so by allowing bots these websites cut off their nose to spite their face.
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That and bots are usually being used by scalpers, so then you see market flooded by hardware with heavily inflated prices. Which is a really bad PR for the brand, so I am quite sure neither AMD nor NVidia are happy about these bots - people will always blame the vendor for low stock and high prices, not scalpers as much.
 
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