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OcUK GUIDE TO ORDERING YOUR AMD 9070 GRAPHICS CARD TODAY AT 14:00

Gibbo said:
Several thousand sold today.
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Sorry mate i know you are probably mad busy but any chance you could advise me on this? I see in your own post the steel legend is at msrp but the price i ended up being charged was way over the odds.

teutorixaleria said:
I ordered the 9070 XT steel legend, it was meant to be an MSRP card and the price current reflects the same as other MSRP models. But the price i paid was closer to £670. Did i get ripped off?

Genuinely considering canceling it if the card is cheaper tomorrow than what i paid today.
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What i don't get is while it's great to get launch day discounts on 910 units (maybe 2-3k units across all retailers) unless I'm mistaken some of the discounts on some cards are not exactly earth shattering, so while some of us may have to pay an extra £50-150 it's not like there's limited stock.

Don't get me wrong as it's great if people who are going to actually use them managed to get cheaper cards, a proper bang for the buck card. What i don't get is why scalpers jumped on these when, from what i can make out, there's going to be hundreds of models (like more than 700 Sapphire Pulse 9070 XT) being released in a day or so at only a slightly inflated price (is it something like an extra £60 on the Pulse?)

From what i can make out it seems like all the scalpers have achieved is to stop people from getting a discount. I suspect very, very, few scalpers will be able to sell what they got for much of a profit (maybe £40-50 in the case of the pulse) when there's going to be thousands of slightly more expensive 9070's in a few days

So aren't they just going to return the cards they scalped in 14-28 days due to an abundance of 9070's with prices only slightly higher than what they paid for them.
 
Rawr said:
I really wish the GPU's were like consoles or electronics or whatever where there's a price, and that's the price.
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Would be nice, it applies to plenty of things yet somehow pc components are presumably exempt from rules that stop the urine being taken. Id imagine a lot of pc stores would go the way of the Dinosaur if rules ever came into place that say "the msrp price is the price and you cant change it upwards".
 
kieran_read said:
Don't worry you will still get a card to scalp, the baskets are live and doesn't allow for overselling. There's no tracking because Gibbo was doing this from home with no staff in the office.
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I ain't scalping mate plus I never order the MSRP I ordered one of the OC cards. Also I'm sitting without a GPU in my rig right now so fat load of good scalping would do me as I'd have to buy a scalped card to get my rig running.

You're saying the order process isn't automated and that for every order someone in the office has to update the status manually and add tracking? I ain't buying that at all. I suspect with all the traffic and the random 504's somethings gone messed up in the system and some of these orders are in limbo. I suspect they won't ship.
 
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teutorixaleria said:
I ordered the 9070 XT steel legend, it was meant to be an MSRP card and the price current reflects the same as other MSRP models. But the price i paid was closer to £670. Did i get ripped off?

Genuinely considering canceling it if the card is cheaper tomorrow than what i paid today.
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In short yes, that's £100 over MSRP which is almost 20%. IMO you should cancel and refuse to pay over MSRP. The more people do it, the more we force the price back down to MSRP.....where it actually should be.
 
dbbk1 said:
I see a lot of people here complaining about new members snagging a card. Im not a first time buyer on OCuk but I am a first time poster on the forums.

I really do think you are lowering you chances by using cards that require confirmation, I used PP and from the time it said "In stock" it took me 3 clicks and it was order confirmed all within maybe 5-10 seconds maximum.
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Ikr, I'm new to the forum too but not first time buyer. I spent 8 hours trying to get one too and got lucky because I registered my browser with PP to avoid the 2FA. This card is for me to use to replace my 2070. If I actually get the card I am gonna cherish it!
 
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dbbk1 said:
I see a lot of people here complaining about new members snagging a card. Im not a first time buyer on OCuk but I am a first time poster on the forums.

I really do think you are lowering you chances by using cards that require confirmation, I used PP and from the time it said "In stock" it took me 3 clicks and it was order confirmed all within maybe 5-10 seconds maximum.
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So I followed these instructions on OcUK, bum steer?

Payment Method: Using a debit or credit card directly via the OcUK checkout is the fastest way of checking out and securing your spot in the queue. We have to wait for Amazon, PayPal, and other 3rd party payment providers to process your payment and confirm the completion before we can allocate the order, which can take at least 10 minutes for PayPal and 1 hour for finance.
 
Lankoss said:
In short yes, that's £100 over MSRP which is almost 20%. IMO you should cancel and refuse to pay over MSRP. The more people do it, the more we force the price back down to MSRP.....where it actually should be.
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Id rather they just honor the originally advertised price instead of needing to cancel. Ive submitted an official ticket but ive been warned it may be up to 10 days for a reply and ill have the card by then.
 
Murphy said:
What i don't get is while it's great to get launch day discounts on 910 units (maybe 2-3k units across all retailers) unless I'm mistaken some of the discounts on some cards are not exactly earth shattering, so while some of us may have to pay an extra £50-150 it's not like there's limited stock.

Don't get me wrong as it's great if people who are going to actually use them managed to get cheaper cards, a proper bang for the buck card. What i don't get is why scalpers jumped on these when, from what i can make out, there's going to be hundreds of models (like more than 700 Sapphire Pulse 9070 XT) being released in a day or so at only a slightly inflated price (is it something like an extra £60 on the Pulse?)

From what i can make out it seems like all the scalpers have achieved is to stop people from getting a discount. I suspect very, very, few scalpers will be able to sell what they got for much of a profit (maybe £40-50 in the case of the pulse) when there's going to be thousands of slightly more expensive 9070's in a few days

So aren't they just going to return the cards they scalped in 14-28 days due to an abundance of 9070's with prices only slightly higher than what they paid for them.
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This is AMD not OCUK, HUB is saying that AMD rebates the retailer not the card manufacturers, and they are only rebating a set number of cards.

Sucks but thi sis all AMDs problem, i don't suspect we will see MSRP cards again until Nvidia stock normalises TBH, i mean these absolutely flew of the shelves, people are desperate for cards at the moment.
 
dbbk1 said:
I see a lot of people here complaining about new members snagging a card. Im not a first time buyer on OCuk but I am a first time poster on the forums.

I really do think you are lowering you chances by using cards that require confirmation, I used PP and from the time it said "In stock" it took me 3 clicks and it was order confirmed all within maybe 5-10 seconds maximum.
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no issues with verifications or having to log into paypal etc? i was worried to use as i can imagine clicking paypal asking me to log in etc etc
 
Dave3of5 said:
I ain't scalping mate plus I never order the MSRP I ordered one of the OC cards. Also I'm sitting without a GPU in my rig right now so fat load of good scalping would do me as I'd have to buy a scalped card to get my rig running.

You're saying the order process isn't automated and that for every order someone in the office has to update the status manually and add tracking? I ain't buying that at all. I suspect with all the traffic and the random 504's somethings gone messed up in the system and some of these orders are in limbo. I suspect they won't ship.
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OCUK are pretty good, if you have a order confirmation you WILL have a card, I don't know how their system works, but Gibbo was WFH this evening doing this. Also their stock is live allocation, you can't order one if there's no stock.

You will get a card, don't worry about it and follow it up tomorrow, you can also call them in the morning and confirm if your order went through, people do that all the time and they are very helpful on the phone.
 
mrskeedle said:
no issues with verifications or having to log into paypal etc? i was worried to use as i can imagine clicking paypal asking me to log in etc etc
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Log into PP in a new tab before the stock goes live. Go through all the 2FA before hand and then once you click PP in the checkout its all instant, no passwords, no 2FA just click pay and done
 
iMacMart said:
So I followed these instructions on OcUK, bum steer?

Payment Method: Using a debit or credit card directly via the OcUK checkout is the fastest way of checking out and securing your spot in the queue. We have to wait for Amazon, PayPal, and other 3rd party payment providers to process your payment and confirm the completion before we can allocate the order, which can take at least 10 minutes for PayPal and 1 hour for finance.
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exactly, maybe some of us oldskoolers are just out of touch
 
kieran_read said:
OCUK are pretty good, if you have a order confirmation you WILL have a card, I don't know how their system works, but Gibbo was WFH this evening doing this. Also their stock is live allocation, you can't order one if there's no stock.

You will get a card, don't worry about it and follow it up tomorrow, you can also call them in the morning and confirm if your order went through, people do that all the time and they are very helpful on the phone.
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Yeah you're right I have noticed that they don't respond to emails or tickets through their website I've only got stuff done with them when I phone them I'll try that tomorrow.
 
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