I’m sorry so it was £100 on every card. Nice.
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AMD 6800 & 6800 XT MBA LAUNCH AT 2PM TODAY - EXTREMELY LIMITED STOCK!
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£70, suggest is £529 we are £599, that is £70 not £100.
Let's be fair that is over the msrp for those cards so they have never been sold here at the proper price as far as I can tell. Supply and demand can only happen once an item is released if they are £80 more on the release then that is a markup.
Shall we have a whip round Christmas is coming up after all. Meanwhile PS5’s are still selling for £450 despite equally high demand.
All I hope is that people remember how OcUK overcharged from minute 0, allow over orders to occur, broke their own listed pre-order time (For 5000 CPUs) and generally have had poor communication re 6000 and 3000 GPUs. Every launch has been a fiasco l, worsened by OcUKs ability to cope with demand / website being ancient. I know they are looking to upgrade, but that's too little too late when everyone saw this coming from a mile away.
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It's nowhere near 6800xt, or 3080/90 mate
You did the right thing, now hopefully it will end up in the hands of a keen gamer.Just refused delivery of my 6800xt. Retrospectively, I don't think the markup from here made it that competitive. Hopefully it can go to someone here who wants it more than me.
I was very tempted to be a very naughty boy however
If you need a card that isn't available anywhere at RRP at the moment surely it's better to buy from OC with warranty and a 14 day return policy for a bit more than someone of eBay. I know its not ideal but unless your happy to wait it's the only choice we have.
The very least you could do was to offer to the 800 you have taken money from first (I didn't order so doesn't affect me).
You freely admit that you have issues with the site which caused this but could easily have been addressed to an extent by limiting the concurrent users on the site at the time, to sell a few percent more cards would have been acceptable but 400% more is extremely poor. Instead you have alienated another 800 people to go with the thousands on the 3000 series launch.
Still all there, let's see if we can make it to a full hour
Scalpers probably more interested in PS5 today.
You should have one yes, I pulled the ability for customers to order whilst my system was still showing 25 left, it is now currently showing 13 left, but there are still some orders to download.
If worse case you did not, there is another 100pc arriving next week which would cover your order but I think you will get one from this batch as I believe we have not oversold.
That 100pc the reference cards or the AIB's ?
Also how long will it take for card payment refunds to go through my order is still showing as "Order received - not yet shipped" after getting the no stock email last night.
I managed to grab a 6800 that went active about 50 minutes ago does anyone now when we may get an idea on delivery dates for the card by any chance, its just so i can decide if too wait for cyber Monday for other parts of my build or jump the gun now?
Generally speaking the bigger stores that would sell PS5s have pretty serious integrity standards when it comes to pricing.
That is a crap excuse, you don't see this with other items so why does it happen to GPU's? If these products were as popular at PS5's, OCUK would get hammered for doing this crap, but they wont because these are niche products when compared. OCUK are scalping so I don't know why you would put them in a separate category to those on Ebay. Is it OK to scalp just as long as it is not too much??
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It will probably ship today
They did dispatch all the non 6800 they sold though. So yeah to all the people that paid them got a card yesterday allocated for the non XT version. The XT oversold in the high hundreds by sounds of it.
But that isn't what happened here. Well not in terms of selling items "already paid for" as they haven't done that. At least read.
https://www.techspot.com/review/2146-amd-radeon-6800/
6800 very close in some titles like gears & 4k
& the 6800 only uses up to 250w is great, big overkill for me at 1080p gaming 144hz
having the extra 8GB memory is a big plus
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As explained by ScottiB there is simply not the man power.
We have made it clear to every single customer who ordered an XT there order is getting cancelled/refunded, so there is no option to change, that has been actioned.
Those who ordered and wanted a 6800 none XT can very easily have ordered one earlier or can order one next week if they wish and all the people who ordered one yesterday, GOT ONE!
We simply do not have the man power and yes our website/systems have caused us issues but unfortunately changing our entire backend, webshop and then training all the departments on how to use it takes months to roll out if not a year plus and this has been underway since before the 3080 launch but its a slow process and we have done all we can since that launch to try and improve what we have and though its still not ideal the 6800 launch has gone smoother for us.
The simple fact is AMD shipped us less than 100 XT's and in the couple of minutes window the order button was live we sold a lot more and all those oversold orders have and are being cancelled/refunded as we speak. Until our new systems are operational which won't be until next year we have to do the best with what we have and yes its not good enough at the moment when manufacturers release products knowing full well the demand and then have next to no supply.
Its not an OcUK issue, it is worldwide, trying to buy a 3080 online today is still practically impossible two months after the launch in the world, its more luck than anything.