From experience there is no way .... have fun with your extended stay in the naughty book.
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AMD 6800 & 6800 XT MBA LAUNCH AT 2PM TODAY - EXTREMELY LIMITED STOCK!
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From experience there is no way .... have fun with your extended stay in the naughty book.
We can only tell you what we know and every official communication that we received from AMD was indicating that there would be no more MBA after this first batch. We've seen the same stories coming out today as you guys, but we've heard nothing official. Whether that means that they'll pull an Nvidia and only sell direct or they just haven't contacted us yet, we don't know. Gibbo will update you when he knows more.
What is highly illegal? How much more control does Microsoft and Sony have over there products than Nvidia or Amd.
Naive I may be but you are getting a lot of stick at the minute over your pricing strategies. You give all these different reasons but people are getting pretty cheesed off about it.
Yeah im not saying that you will get any more, just that for AMD this is a very strange launch. They probably decided late in the game to only sell them direct :/
Both Sapphire and Powercolor told us to not expect any more XT MBA cards. They also told us AMD short shipped them on XT GPUs.
Of course this industry can change its mind regular and often, I've seen the AMD statement and maybe more 6800 XT's will come our way but we have learnt from the 3080 fiasco it is simply better to have no back orders in place especially on a product that from launch we have being informed it was a limited product.
The difference with the 3080 is we were and have still not being told it is a limited product and were told numbers are ramping, hence we kept selling them until the point came where it makes no sense to keep selling as the volumes are still poor and not ramped as much as we would hope or were led to believe. Number have improved but marginally, we need thousands to clear backlog and I could easily sell 50,000 units in a week but no manufacturer can even come close to meeting our demand, their is simply too little supply on GPU's.
Well if you want to be cheesed of that is your decision, we are offering transparency behind our actions and being open with our customer base. We can't hope to please everyone but we can try and explain how our business works and how we try and think ahead.
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I have a question for the more mature members here, this is absolutely critical wrt future performance and pc upgrades..........how do I get the 6800 thats arriving tomorrow (hopefully) past the wife? If she sees it, life in this house will change beyond measure and recognition and I'll probably spend the rest of the year in the naughty book!
Suggestions GRATEFULLY accepted!
She won't see it though as you had to "order her Christmas present online due to covid and it would spoil the surprise if she was watching when it was delivered"... Just make sure you then have something decent to give her on Christmas day
Buy her a bag that's what I've done,I have a question for the more mature members here, this is absolutely critical wrt future performance and pc upgrades..........how do I get the 6800 thats arriving tomorrow (hopefully) past the wife? If she sees it, life in this house will change beyond measure and recognition and I'll probably spend the rest of the year in the naughty book!
Suggestions GRATEFULLY accepted!
She also has no idea how much it cost which helps i will just say I got a good deal thanks to Gibbo letting me know what time they were going to be listed.
Grow a pear, love it, do you mean a pair
I actually meant what I said in a roundabout way of replying to his question
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Grow a pear, love it, do you mean a pair
Grow some bananas too.
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Now now Gibbo, haven't you heard, it's too much demand, lack of supply has nothing to do with it
Grow a pear, love it, do you mean a pair
OK, I cave. I can't tell if you're being serious or not.
loads of things cost more - it is just a sign of the times this year
I bought a Garden shed- yes a plain shed- waiting times were crazy & the price was much higher
they couldn't manage the supply v demand as things are just silly with everyone not going on Holiday, buying cars etc
16 weeks I was told and although it was quicker it was pricier
if people don't feel comfortable paying a bit more for things then they really shouldn't be buying them in the first place
Graphics cards don't make any difference to your life- your games will still run on a lesser card
If your happiness depends on an item like a graphics card then maybe that's a sign that other parts of your life need looked at
the amount of raging & people all getting wound up and slinging rubbish has been embarrassing
if they stand back & actually think about it then it is nothing more than a slight inconvenience
if you got a card - congrats & if you didn't - you have £600 in your pocket that you could sit on or add to for a future purchase - congrats
lets all calm down - only things I will say is - DO NOT buy from an Ebay Scalper - You are NOT that Weak!
I bought a Garden shed- yes a plain shed- waiting times were crazy & the price was much higher
they couldn't manage the supply v demand as things are just silly with everyone not going on Holiday, buying cars etc
16 weeks I was told and although it was quicker it was pricier
if people don't feel comfortable paying a bit more for things then they really shouldn't be buying them in the first place
Graphics cards don't make any difference to your life- your games will still run on a lesser card
If your happiness depends on an item like a graphics card then maybe that's a sign that other parts of your life need looked at
the amount of raging & people all getting wound up and slinging rubbish has been embarrassing
if they stand back & actually think about it then it is nothing more than a slight inconvenience
if you got a card - congrats & if you didn't - you have £600 in your pocket that you could sit on or add to for a future purchase - congrats
lets all calm down - only things I will say is - DO NOT buy from an Ebay Scalper - You are NOT that Weak!
So how does that relate to Sony or Microsoft telling retailers to stick to msrp. Price fixing would be that both Sony and Microsoft control pricing in collusion with each other in order to artificially increase pricing due to demand. We’re not seeing that we’re seeing them keeping pricing at the same level which is exactly the level they set at launch. Now if they were doing what pc tech is doing we’d see pricing closer to £600 rather than £450 as demand is greater than supply.
Now now Gibbo, haven't you heard, it's too much demand, lack of supply has nothing to do with it
AMD haven't had anything compelling enough for me to change up from since 2017
Same, over three months, and my father had a two month waiting time for a couple of fence panels..
Pretty much every online shop is suffering with supply issues.
I've got a small list of things that I need to buy, and I'll wait until next week, even though I honestly can't see this Black Friday bringing a load of incredible deals because you need stock to do deals.