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30xx Series Founders Edition
- Thread starter Dirk Diggler
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The short supply is cause all sorts of behaviour which is just making the situation worse not better.
You see people who already have AIB cards buying FEs so they can flip their AIB card or vice versa.
People are buying any GPU (e.g. 3060ti) instead of the one they want (e.g. 3080) and then eventually buying the one they want and have to resell the other one further filing the lack of supply.
Of course, lots of people buying for their ‘friends’ otherwise known as eBay.
All of these examples are in the last few pages of this thread alone.
You see people who already have AIB cards buying FEs so they can flip their AIB card or vice versa.
People are buying any GPU (e.g. 3060ti) instead of the one they want (e.g. 3080) and then eventually buying the one they want and have to resell the other one further filing the lack of supply.
Of course, lots of people buying for their ‘friends’ otherwise known as eBay.
All of these examples are in the last few pages of this thread alone.
Thats the problem, it feels like its never gonna end. Miners don't help the situation and nor does lockdown. After hearing what the Chancellor has planned for the future, its looking pretty grim if im honest and people splurging on stuff now may very well regret it.
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LOL, and this is a cheap hobby!!
I will be keeping my 2060super there isnt a viable upgrade path even at MSRP prices. £350 to £399 is the max i will pay for a GPU upgrade and the RTX3060 is pretty much on a par (less than 10fps gain), so i will skip this gen, maybe wait for what intel has to offer
I’m in this boat. Missing out on a 3080 loads of times just makes you settle as you have no idea when another 3080 drop is coming. Turns out it was about 10 minutes after I got a 3070 last night
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Stop copying me!
When availability is not this stupid, I might upgrade to the 3080 I wanted originally but more than happy I managed to get a 3060ti which is replacing my 1080. I don’t expect or think that’ll be for at least a year if at all though.
As I`m usually using my phone for the Discord alerts as 90% of the time I`m not at my laptop or my desktop, has anyone had success using their mobile or is it predominantly the desktop where people are succesfull in getting the cards?
Are you going to sell the 1080? I have a Vega 56 now that I think I’ll sell on FB Marketplace.Stop copying me!
When availability is not this stupid, I might upgrade to the 3080 I wanted originally but more than happy I managed to get a 3060ti which is replacing my 1080. I don’t expect or think that’ll be for at least a year if at all though.
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I got a 3070 FE just before Christmas but I was always after the 3080 FE. I bought the 3070 FE because it was the only one I could get, after trying to get a 3080 FE a couple of times before and failing. With the new one per customer policy on the other site, now I can't buy a 3080 FE.
At first I was happy that I got the 3070, and it was a vast improvement on my previous GPU, but its still a no brainer to get the 3080 FE. So having failed to get a 3080 FE on the last couple of drops due to the new policy, Im forced now to try and set up a 2nd account to a different address in order to get one. Its crap, absolutely, but the fact is that this is what scalpers are doing to get multiple FE cards over and over, so now I have to as well.
@Gavster I've not had much luck with the discord alerts if I'm honest. I managed to get my 3070 order in last night using the distill.io browser plugin. You basically tell it to monitor pages or parts of pages for any changes and what interval to check them at. If the plugin notices a change it makes a chime sound. Opened the site and saw the buy button!
Distill is ok but it only monitors a change after a specified time. You would have to set the interval to less than 30 secs to actually get a chance if something does drop. Also it monitors any tiny change such as an advert text changing, etc which gives false alerts.
The system is put in place to stop people buying multiple cards and give more chance to those who have no card, if you didn't want the 3070 then you shouldn't have bought it, playing the system to get another is really no better than the scalpers while using scalpers to justify it.
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Just got my dispatch notice on the 3060ti. Happy days
I'm hoping my 3080 dispatches late so arrives on Saturday instead of tomorrow. I wanna be home to received it personally.
It amazes me how many "friends" people normally claim to have in situations like this... I wonder how is that all these "friends" need other people to buy things for them. I wonder if any of these people would actually buy anything in real life for their friends, without asking for the money first.
Seems like people with very large families are very interested in PC Gaming as well... One for me, one for each one of my four kids, my brother wants another, and my brother in law, plus my best mate... Damn it, I have only managed to buy 5 and I want three more, the system is crap, bloody miners!
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Absolutely understand why the system is there. Im just explaining that from a personal point of view that I still want the 3080 and thus have to go to new lengths to (try) get one. Rightly or wrongly, that's how it is. And yes, Im mining on my 3070 as well so its helping to fund the upgrade which I may not have thought was worth it otherwise.
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You even get people claiming they're almost doing people a favour by buying multiple cards, deciding which one they want and selling the others online for MSRP but second-hand. I think some people are addicted to the "thrill of the chase". They have already purchased multiple cards but just can't help themselves.