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AMD 6800 & 6800 XT MBA LAUNCH AT 2PM TODAY - EXTREMELY LIMITED STOCK!

@Gibbo I believe I was lucky enough to grab a 6800 yesterday (order confirmed at 10:57), however I have not had any further update on the order, its status is currently; "order received - not shipped". I also sent a web note yesterday to check whether I was one of the 19 that missed out but don't believe I received a reply and i gave up on the phone after waiting on hold for half an hour. I'm not complaining I understand the pressure with all these bad launches but just justifying why after years of lurking why I finally made a forum account to ask directly.

Will the 6800's all be shipped tonight or cancellations made, or is there still warehouse issues? I understand it's a crazy times so don't want to pester, just want to know I've secured one and I won't have to play the lottery again on Wednesday.
 
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Mrrrosty1 said:
but i am a Yorkshireman
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Just for you :D

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Im gonna print that owt and put in the outside lav, thats where i keeps all the good stuff, missus never goes in there, Cheers have some some Theakstons Old pPeculiar my friend!!!!!1
 
Martini1991 said:
This year has well and truly wiped my enthusiasm for the PC market.
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It's fair to say that it's sapping mine also. As I've mentioned before I'm responsible for the system build business here and so, over the last year, I've had to beg, steal, blackmail and demand stock of pretty much everything apart from cases. We've had rolling shortages all year thanks to Covid and it's a challenge to keep everything moving. It's my responsibility to find a way to keep the build department stocked or we have about 30 guys and gals whose jobs could be at stake.

With this in mind I can sympathise with Gibbo's position on CPU & GPU. There's almost no stock of 10900K and much of his other Intel stock he's having to buy from unofficial sources. Every single Ryzen 3000 series is in shortage & everyone knows the situation with 5000 series.
The same goes for graphics...RTX 2000 series is now totally dead, there's a big black hole where they used to be. I 'joked' earlier that if my system customers wanted anything other than a GTX 1660 then they were out of luck, but the same goes for his web customers. There really are no stocks of the older parts available and none of the new either.

When you're a product manager judged on hitting targets and you've got only a tiny fraction of the stock that you would like it's definitely stressful. I keep making jokes about the appearance of a bald patch which can't help either :p
So, when he gets stock and the manufacturer wants him to hit an unreasonable MSRP and make barely enough to cover costs I can understand why he chooses not to. I know I've done the same in the past.

People keep coming back to his car collection and I'm not going to claim that I'm not jealous too, but I think that it's really unfair to do so. He started doing this job in his teens and has worked hard for his money. Plus, he's tighter than a...I'd better not finish that...he's spent his whole adult life basically trading cars and often making healthy profits on them. He's also come into some money via some sad circumstances and cars are his passion, he rarely spends his money on anything else. If I think of the amount I've spent on gaming, paintball and guitars over the years it's obvious to me why I drive a six year old Golf.

I can only repeat what Gibbo said earlier, none of our purchasing team are paid on commission, we are all paid a flat salary so there's no selfish greed involved in the decisions we may make.

I appreciate why there are so many frustrated customers and I understand that some are alienated, we don't set out to annoy you guys :(. I can only hope that supply improves in the coming weeks and that next week's launch goes more smoothly. I hope AMD learnt some valuable lessons for the RX 6900 launch and I hope that you all have a good evening & a good weekend. I think I might spend most of it asleep.
 
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Funds have just been returned to my account. Is there anyway that the people who had their orders cancelled can get priority for the next batch of RX 6800 XT's?
 
Taunt said:
Funds have just been returned to my account. Is there anyway that the people who had their orders cancelled can get priority for the next batch of RX 6800 XT's?
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Getting your order cancelled due to insufficient stock is the same as not being able to order one, except your approach has more steps.
 
Mesai said:
Getting your order cancelled due to insufficient stock is the same as not being able to order one, except your approach has more steps.
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And my approach initially showed my purchase as successful, the funds were pending, my hopes were up after hours of spamming f5 and the anticipation of a new shiny GPU, eventually after the shitest year on record and having missed out also on an RTX 3080 only to have it all swiped away at the very last hurdle. Yea, just a few more "steps" as you so unacceptably put it.
 
Taunt said:
And my approach initially showed my purchase as successful, the funds were pending, my hopes were up after hours of spamming f5 and the anticipation of a new shiny GPU, eventually after the shitest year on record and having missed out also on an RTX 3080 only to have it all swiped away at the very last hurdle. Yea, just a few more "steps" as you so unacceptably put it.
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We all tried to get the card, and I understand the frustration because all I have at the moment is a box of parts.

Unfortunately OCUK don’t have the facility to prevent over ordering so this was always going to happen. Hopefully next week goes better especially seeing benchmarks showing much higher clocks on the partner cards.
 
Mesai said:
We all tried to get the card, and I understand the frustration because all I have at the moment is a box of parts.

Unfortunately OCUK don’t have the facility to prevent over ordering so this was always going to happen. Hopefully next week goes better especially seeing benchmarks showing much higher clocks on the partner cards.
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Maybe a queue system to prevent over ordering after you click Pay? This would prevent so many issues...

Your right tho, fingers crossed for next week. Again.
 
Yibbo said:
@Gibbo I believe I was lucky enough to grab a 6800 yesterday (order confirmed at 10:57), however I have not had any further update on the order, its status is currently; "order received - not shipped". I also sent a web note yesterday to check whether I was one of the 19 that missed out but don't believe I received a reply and i gave up on the phone after waiting on hold for half an hour. I'm not complaining I understand the pressure with all these bad launches but just justifying why after years of lurking why I finally made a forum account to ask directly.

Will the 6800's all be shipped tonight or cancellations made, or is there still warehouse issues? I understand it's a crazy times so don't want to pester, just want to know I've secured one and I won't have to play the lottery again on Wednesday.
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The bad news is the 65 we had have all shipped out so unfortunately you must be one of the twenty that oversold.

The good news is another 100 is due early next week so you will get one next week. :)
 
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