What ever happened to the forum deals?

[Dontrocktheboat]

Forum deals will be coming next week.







or maybe two weeks. Or three. Couple of months.
why give deals when you can scalp shed loads of profit on them?

 

[jupiter_man]

Honestly I dont think ocuk can do another round like the 6700xt soon, that deal was like charity.
Ocuk got bills to pay and their mothercompany will not be happy about it.

 

[VIPER258]

Thing is, they can always give us a decent deal on MM and then jack-up the price on another card and sell that on their website to make the money back. There are always scalpers out there willing to pay the higher prices.

 

[markthechef]

Fingers crossed on the 3080ti drops on a deal
For one the website won't get overloaded
And two no backlog of pre orders for months
They don't have to do it cheap aka around cost for us
Just make sure we can get a card !
So it's a win win for Us !
IF they don't want the above

 

[The_Arbiter]

Yeah those people were weeded out though and lost MM access.

Good to hear. I hope some of them got bent over by ebay when a buyer claimed "not working" on receipt.

 

[AyeAyeAhoy!]

MM deals is literally my only chance of getting a high end card for a decent price, its crazy.

The FE cards really aren't that hard to get if you subscribe to the Discord / Telegram channels.

 

[OtherSide]

Well overclockers store had a 2060 OC on sale today, not seen if it’s still on tho. Unfortunately it was massively overpriced at around £500.

I’ve got a 1660 super on preorder for £240 atm, stock date keeps changing though. Used to be March now it’s early May. I would rather get a 3060ti or 3070, but the prices are silly!

 

[Zefan]

The FE cards really aren't that hard to get if you subscribe to the Discord / Telegram channels.

This was true but not so much recently in my experience. Next to no drops and they're gone within less than a minute normally.

 

[AyeAyeAhoy!]

This was true but not so much recently in my experience. Next to no drops and they're gone within less than a minute normally.

I dunno, I picked up a 3090 last week pretty easily - they came up 2 days in a row, day 1 my bank decided they wanted to talk to me about the purchase, so that didn't go through, day 2 went through fine. First time I got it in the basket about 20mins after the alert, second about 10 mins. Just had to keep refreshing

 

[Benass]

I dunno, I picked up a 3090 last week pretty easily - they came up 2 days in a row, day 1 my bank decided they wanted to talk to me about the purchase, so that didn't go through, day 2 went through fine. First time I got it in the basket about 20mins after the alert, second about 10 mins. Just had to keep refreshing

Y if your bank questions your decision that means it was priced outside the reason )

And if card was on for 20 min that just reinforces The suspicion.

I wish I could Afort to throw away 2k on 3090.
Unfortunately for me 600 is all I can afford and I make sure I get something Reasonable for my money. So I wait.

 

[AyeAyeAhoy!]

Y if your bank questions your decision that means it was priced outside the reason )

And if card was on for 20 min that just reinforces The suspicion.

Not sure what this means, but they blocked the transaction because it was unusual, so flagged on their system. Automated call came through, I verified it was me, all done, but by then they were OOS.

Day 2 went through fine then as I'd effectively pre-authorised the day before.

And the card's not 'on' for 20mins. It takes 20mins of pressing refresh for the buy button to appear.

 

[Bomberh]

Thing is, they can always give us a decent deal on MM and then jack-up the price on another card and sell that on their website to make the money back. There are always scalpers out there willing to pay the higher prices.

Nice, so what about the poor people who are not scalpers and haven't got the required 1,000 post + and haven't been invited to MM, do they then have to carry your reduced prices in MM????

 

[pastymuncher]

I dunno, I picked up a 3090 last week pretty easily - they came up 2 days in a row, day 1 my bank decided they wanted to talk to me about the purchase, so that didn't go through, day 2 went through fine. First time I got it in the basket about 20mins after the alert, second about 10 mins. Just had to keep refreshing

Not everyone wants or can afford a 3090 though. Many of us are wanting a 3060ti or 3070 and there hasn't been a drop on those for ages making it just about impossible to get one. Personally a 3070FE at £469 is already more than I really want to pay but it is what it is.

 

[willhub]

Probably a waste of time, mostly probably still got scalped and probably got a lot of moaning from forum member and customers. Not worth the time and effort.

 

[AyeAyeAhoy!]

Not everyone wants or can afford a 3090 though. Many of us are wanting a 3060ti or 3070 and there hasn't been a drop on those for ages making it just about impossible to get one. Personally a 3070FE at £469 is already more than I really want to pay but it is what it is.

It's been 15 days - not exactly ages. But yes, the 3090 tends to crop up the most often.

 

[zipp0r]

Nice, so what about the poor people who are not scalpers and haven't got the required 1,000 post + and haven't been invited to MM, do they then have to carry your reduced prices in MM????

moaners like you got a chance at nicely priced cards in an unrestricted forum deal where far more cards were available than the MM forum deal.

 

[Thekwango]

and haven't been invited to MM

nobody gets invited to the MM.....it's not some secret boys club.

 

[Benass]

Not sure what this means, but they blocked the transaction because it was unusual, so flagged on their system. Automated call came through, I verified it was me, all done, but by then they were OOS.

Day 2 went through fine then as I'd effectively pre-authorised the day before.

And the card's not 'on' for 20mins. It takes 20mins of pressing refresh for the buy button to appear.

Take no offense , I was trying To be funny .

But my point Is very few ppl can afford 3090
That's why they are easier to buy.

 

[AyeAyeAhoy!]

Take no offense , I was trying To be funny .

But my point Is very few ppl can afford 3090
That's why they are easier to buy.

I mean, I imagine they must make Nvidia more money per card? Though I guess digging out 24gb ram per unit might not be so profitable when you can load up 2 and a bit 3080's with that. Perhaps that's why it's twice the price! I dunno

 

[willhub]

I mean, I imagine they must make Nvidia more money per card? Though I guess digging out 24gb ram per unit might not be so profitable when you can load up 2 and a bit 3080's with that. Perhaps that's why it's twice the price! I dunno

I guess that's why no SLI on 3080, 2 3080 would destory a single 3090 and still cost less. More money for Nvidia