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

[Combat Fighter]

It seems everywhere there are stock shortages.
I ordered from a retail store competitor on 04/11
This was allocated for first delivery on or after Saturday 07/11
On 10/11 I was told stock was allocated and I would be receiving it on 11/11 or 12/11.

Today I went there and there has been a stock discrepancy at some point and the item is not in stock in any stores. They also said they have had no stock but this isnt correct as know at least one person received theirs on 08/11. I must have missed the first batch and god knows when another batch will arrive which then needs to be shipped to the retail store for collection

Based on info I would be receiving one on 11/11 or 12/11 I returned an unopened 3800XT which I now know I should have kept.

What CPU would anyone recomment to tide me over until the 5900X arrives from either high street or an online competitor? Thinking 3800XT for £330 isnt bad and can probably return it opened and used too without much hassle... or I return RAM and motherboard and go down the Intel route

Ive done the same thing. Got my 5950X from a competitor but not quite sure if it’s going to arrive by the end of the month. I’m queue number 221. So just bought a 3900X to play with for £350 in the mean time so I can get my build sorted plus I can sell my old X99 gear. I’ll just sell on the 3900X when the 5950X arrives.

 

[Joxeon]

Buying without purchase intention isn't part of your customer rights. It's only a side effect about the right to return a product - because you're not in a shop where you can see it and ask staff in person.

You wanted a product that's not available so you buy a replacement instead but then the product you originally wanted becomes available so you return the other product.

Seems a lot more reasonable than some of these big online retailers which make billions in profit each year yet pay no uk taxes.

 

[ticktricktrack]

You wanted a product that's not available so you buy a replacement instead but then the product you originally wanted becomes available so you return the other product.

Seems a lot more reasonable than some of these big online retailers which make billions in profit each year yet pay no uk taxes.

Yeah, stick it to the man. And then complain why things cost more than MSRP

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Don't tie your money up for something you can't do for months when you could be putting it to productive use instead.

Yeah, but that not how the scarcity model works, and more people are susceptible to it than you would imagine. Research papers show sales of a luxury product over it's lifetime are up to 25% higher when run with the scarcity model versus 100% availability.

 

[Sam Lann]

Ive done the same thing. Got my 5950X from a competitor but not quite sure if it’s going to arrive by the end of the month. I’m queue number 221. So just bought a 3900X to play with for £350 in the mean time so I can get my build sorted plus I can sell my old X99 gear. I’ll just sell on the 3900X when the 5950X arrives.

I will no doubt have to do this with a GPU, im guessing there is no way im going to bag a 6900xt on launch

 

[Joxeon]

Yeah, stick it to the man. And then complain why things cost more than MSRP

Well I doubt you can blame customer returns for the above MSRP on ryzen 5000 cpu's and nvidia 3000 cards.

 

[Greedydog]

You wanted a product that's not available so you buy a replacement instead but then the product you originally wanted becomes available so you return the other product.

Seems a lot more reasonable than some of these big online retailers which make billions in profit each year yet pay no uk taxes.

Two things, retailers aren't lending libraries, consumer protection legislation is meant to protect purchasers not facilitate people taking the pee. And, as far as I'm aware, the various online retailers pay every penny of tax they are due, if there is tax avoidance through corporate structures, recharges etc. (which isn't illegal), which there no doubt is, then it's up to the government to legislate effective tax law.

 

[ticktricktrack]

Well I doubt you can blame customer returns for the above MSRP on ryzen 5000 cpu's and nvidia 3000 cards.

Do you think all the cancellations, returning money and people calling customer services with "Are we there yet???" every day is for free?

 

[Esoterick]

Do you think all the cancellations, returning money and people calling customer services with "Are we there yet???" every day is for free?

So companies need to resort to scalping in order to pay their costs? Plus all of these companies are impossible to get hold of so they don't appear to be investing any of this money in CS staff, which is standard. Easier to put up a permanent message with something vague about higher than normal call volumes...

 

[DeathStorm]

You wanted a product that's not available so you buy a replacement instead but then the product you originally wanted becomes available so you return the other product.

Then pay for a rental service instead of abusing a thing that's meant to protect us.

Seems a lot more reasonable than some of these big online retailers which make billions in profit each year yet pay no uk taxes.

You can justify just about anything using this sort of reasoning.

 

[UK_SPAWN]

can we stop the argue please im getting pointless notifications about it

 

[LtMatt]

can we stop the argue please im getting pointless notifications about it

This is a dangerous thread to have notifications on, i recommend just checking Gibbo's posts once or twice a day.

 

[Guest2]

Ive done the same thing. Got my 5950X from a competitor but not quite sure if it’s going to arrive by the end of the month. I’m queue number 221. So just bought a 3900X to play with for £350 in the mean time so I can get my build sorted plus I can sell my old X99 gear. I’ll just sell on the 3900X when the 5950X arrives.

Ordered a 3600 will sell it on or send back to retailer if the 5900X ever arrives.
Hopefully the company that manufactures iPhones go into selling computer component parts or start making their own fantastic CPUs. None of this Nvidia / AMD supply and demand issues would happen with them

 

[Gog]

Just took a poo break at work and received a notification that stock of 5600x was available elsewhere. Managed to snag one with delivery tomorrow. Most timely break as my phone is on silent whilst working so I wouldn't have noticed it.

Just need a graphics card now so looking forward to all of this again next week.....

 

[SimonV6]

I trusted the 17:00 time quoted by Gibbo and ended up not placing my order until 15:45 on the Thursday when I saw that it was already live. The email on Friday said that I was #293 in the queue.

I am expecting that no news is bad news, because it's the hope that kills ya.

Sounds lucky for you, I place my order on the 5th at 15.20 and payment went straight through as PayPal was used, but i am #325 in the queue? So paid 25 min sooner than you but 32 places further back, what gives OC?

 

[Cenuij]

Sounds lucky for you, I place my order on the 5th at 15.20 and payment went straight through as PayPal was used, but i am #325 in the queue? So paid 25 min sooner than you but 32 places further back, what gives OC?

Depends on the checkout integration with PayPal.

If it's PayPal pro the etailer's checkout system will call out to PayPal via API's and that's usually as quick as contacting a payment gateway provider for CC

If it's the checkout flow where you leave the checkout, go to paypal and pay, then get returned to the order confirmation page on the retailers site then that can be longer than you might think.

In this checkout flow, PayPal sends an IPN notification to the retailers systems once the payment is auth'd at the paypal side - there's generally two issues here that can delay the etailer from updating the order status to payment complete (OCUK orders are only queued for pre-order once payment has finalised).

1. Delays in PayPal sending the IPN (usually at most a minute or two)
   
2. PayPal receives an HTTP error status when trying to submit the IPN to the callback URL

I'm assuming the second scenario happened here due to the server(s) falling over with load. When PayPal can't submit an IPN it waits a while and then tries again (and again), but if I remember correctly IPN notification re-send has an exponential backoff so if it fails again the length of time between retries increases.

 

[ViRuS2k]

89 in the que for a 5950x does anyone know or rough estimate when i will get this cpu shipped :/

 

[Standman]

No news today? So looks like nothing out of non official dealer regarding CPUs... Will w8 few more days, cancel all and buy 7 3800x .

 

[Widdle]

Just took a poo break at work and received a notification that stock of 5600x was available elsewhere. Managed to snag one with delivery tomorrow. Most timely break as my phone is on silent whilst working so I wouldn't have noticed it.

Just need a graphics card now so looking forward to all of this again next week.....

Can you send me poo notifications so I know when to look out for stock?!

 

[Cenuij]

89 in the que for a 5950x does anyone know or rough estimate when i will get this cpu shipped :/

Gibbo posted that he'd sourced an additional 35 x 5950x (maybe this week) and this later post with an additional 60 x 5950x due on the 20th from main distributor.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/34202186

So I think your Q number falls inside this total number (35 + 60 = 95), maybe your order will be shipped on or just after 20th. I'm 105 in the queue so I think I might have to wait until December.