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I'm not, no. I probably won't be getting a 3080 at all but I definitely won't be paying more for it.

Is it worth €50 to you to not have to claim back the VAT?

Well, it was looking like the order was eventually going to end up cancelled one way or the other anyway, but the fee would have ended up closer €50 at the price I paid. I don't think I would have paid even as little as that more in September, much less 6 months later. I know what I want and I...

Of course. The payment was made in September, more than three months before Brexit. Since the DPD issue has not been resolved (two and a half months later) it's not clear what might have happened if orders were processed without refund and delivered as planned, but we know at least one customer...

Of course you have a choice. You could face up to the problems you created for yourselves in September and commit to getting the product to the customer if possible and with no additional charges. You could choose to keep your customers informed clearly and concisely. You could reply to...

What exactly is being done with them? Is delivery being moved to DHL? Are OC going to cover any additional charges imposed by Irish customs because of this?

Just got an email from Amazon Pay notifying me that my VAT has been refunded, even though I did not request it through customer service, or otherwise contact customer service at all.

Well, you can guesstimate based on Gibbo's latest update here: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/threads/ocuk-nvidia-rtx-30xx-series-update-thread-on-deliveries-how-to-cancel-your-order.18899277/page-8 He posted a similar update in the same thread in January so you can make a rough guess of...

Presuming there's no further update today, no. If your order was shipped at the start of January then it is basically stuck in Limbo. If you believe your order has reached the top of the queue and is ready to be shipped, or will do so soon, you have the option to contact customer service, have...

Thanks, that answers a question I asked during the week. Basically, if the VAT issues can be resolved there's a chance the additional customs charges will not apply. Still worth holding out then, for now.

They didn't expect supply problems despite pandemic, looming Brexit and increasing shortages across the industry. Who knows what conversations happened around the time, but my guess would be they saw the signs and decided to gamble when competitors were taking a more conservative approach...

No one knew what the exact details of Brexit were going to be but everyone knew the date they would be applying from, just over three months after the launch date. OC didn't have to take full payment up front, they didn't have to take orders from outside the UK at all and they had plenty of...

I think the order being cancelled by OC is very much still a possibility, but even if not there's still the chance that newer, more powerful cards at a similar price point will be released before the order can be fulfilled. Shortages do not seem to have interrupted Nvidia's release schedule so...

One customer who changed to DHL definitely got charged customs charges. I've asked directly whether those charges will apply to all Irish orders or if it's possible they won't be charged once all delivery issues have been resolved and the reply was effectively that OC views that as my problem...

Thing is, there is no reason to cancel unless you literally could not afford to buy a card from elsewhere without getting the refund from OC first. That money has been gone from our bank accounts for half a year and there's no additional risk associated with it remaining out of our accounts for...

Well, Etherium is going to be moving from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake in 2022, so that should be a hard limit on mining for that currency, though there is always the chance that by then mining of some other currency or other will have ramped up. We'll see what happens when the time comes...

I think the supply of silicone is the overall problem for sure but you might be understating the affect mining has on the GPU market in particular. When the current Ethereum mining craze runs its course like the Bitcoin mining craze did a few years ago the secondhand GPU market is going to be...

It's a tricky situation but if I was you I'd try and find a reasonably priced older card in the second hand market (though even there prices are inflated a bit at the moment) as a holdover until things get back to normal. Pocket the balance of your refund for a rainy day and hopefully by the...

Yeah, they really screwed the pooch. As I've said before, if this is how product launches have been handled by OC up to now then it's not so much that this launch has been unlucky as they've been lucky up to now and this launch has been a harsh lesson. Classic case of biting off more than you...

Fair enough. Thanks.