I'm starting to think that OCUK use their competitors' websites to estimate what kind of stock they might be getting in themselves! "What's that? TUF Gaming and TUF Gaming OC in early December? I wonder if they'll spare a few for us as well?"
Or perhaps they're ordering from said competitors, so they have to estimate how many the OCUK procurement bots will be able to source from each respective website (this would at least explain the OCUK need for extra margin on most products).
Some things are just not meant to be known by mortal folk. Clearly OCUK don't have direct access to the stock information themselves, otherwise it'd be pathetic and embarrassing to ruin a company's reputation with such an easy remedy at hand. The poor customer service staff are at the mercy of whatever typos Gibbo can summon every 4-10 days, so information beyond what is shared simply cannot exist.
There are loads of explanations for this, so we must be reasonable e.g. maybe Gibbo's forgotten the first name of his contact at Asus and it'd be too humiliating to call them up without being able to address them*.
*If I had to guess, I'd start with Rog (short for Roger).
