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

Taff072 said:
As I couldn't face the F5 rat race on Wednesday I sent a speculative email to a company registering my interest in an RX 6800 (non XT) on Sunday evening.

Got a phone call at 1430Hrs today asking if I still wanted one, I answered yes, went on website and paid for it and it is now out for delivery arriving tomorrow 24 Nov 20. Happy days.

Just need my 5600X now, 152 in the queue at OC, to complete the upgrade from an i5 3570k and GTX970.
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Haha, thats very fortunate, I play counter strike mainly and have been for the last 10 years or so and haven't really had a reason to upgrade since, however, felt like the new Ryzen 5's and new GPU's from AMD is a great excuse to upgrade from my existing FX 8320 and R9 270 hahahaha :D
 
Mrrrosty1 said:
hi zachary i have not seen a launch time yet, im going to take the day off on that basis, i hope to get a better draw, perhaps ocuk will give us a rough idea of time, i will scan the interweb for answer in the meantime
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Ok, that would be great, thanks, I'd love to take the day off and try secure one, good luck mate :P
 
The most recent communications from OcUK have been that the AIB cards will be listed on the site from 14:00 on Wednesday 25th, as with last week. However, this time they won't actually enable the buy buttons until some unspecified time later.

The rationale is that the site will be inundated and on its knees at the stated launch time. So rather than risk the site going down and over-selling last week, they'll not enable the buy buttons until later, by which hopefully the mass rush of traffic will have calmed down a bit.

I don't think they've said whether they'll announce the 'buy' time on the forum or not.

My concern is that this plan will just mean that we have to keep F5 hammering the site for hours instead of 30 minutes. But I suppose if the plan has not been widely communicated, it's possible that a lot of people will give up thinking the cards are out of stock.

Also: they said that the AIB cards will be on pre-order, and that the stock won't come in until "late Nov / early December". So even if you get one, expect to wait a week or two for delivery.
 
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The hardened 2020 launch tactic.

No advertising and not selling at launch time.

Then once the coast is clear quietly make the product listings live at 4am next day.
 
TheBloke said:
The most recent communications from OcUK have been that the AIB cards will be listed on the site from 14:00 tomorrow as with last week. However, this time they won't actually enable the buy buttons until some unspecified time later.

The rationale is that the site will be inundated and on its knees at the stated launch time. So rather than risk the site going down and over-selling last week, they'll not enable the buy buttons until later, by which hopefully the mass rush of traffic will have calmed down a bit.

I don't think they've said whether they'll announce the 'buy' time on the forum or not.

My concern is that this plan will just mean that we have to keep F5 hammering the site for hours instead of 30 minutes. But I suppose if the plan has not been widely communicated, it's possible that a lot of people will give up thinking the cards are out of stock.

Also: they said that the AIB cards will be on pre-order, and that the stock won't come in until "late Nov / early December". So even if you get one, expect to wait a week or two for delivery.
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From what I recall they didn't even say they'll post them instantly, even if without buy button. Rather, they'll be posting them at random? hours through the day, starting 2pm. Lets see if that helps anything though, as people might just sit and whack F5 for the whole day, including bots hammering as well.

By the way, yesterday one of the competition without bots safeguards posted cards 1:40am (3080 TUF) - so very randomly and I just noticed by accident, as I was browsing something else there. In a span of just few minutes it was all gone, I did not even manage to add one to the basket in time - even though I almost instantly tried to do it. Bots hoovered it all up in an instant and moments later many got posted on eBay for like £2k (so even more than 3090 that ARE in stock in various shops). Can't win against bots like that! :/
And sadly, even though OcUK has safeguards, there's still monitoring bots just checking stock and alerting many thousands of people instantly something shows up. Which means, normal people are pretty much with 0 chances to get one on 25th, as usual.
 
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Perhaps they could email us directly and deal with us one a one to one basis or we could ring a secret number in there office at a given time, that might work, and i could go to work for a few hours to
 
ocuk perhaps let us quote our canceled order numbers and details for id and let us order before they go online, that would give us a chance we have all probably missed out 3 times now here, what do you think ????, regards
 
It's time bots were properly dealt with, along with scalpers. People who did this sort of thing with hand sanitiser and toilet rolls earlier in the year faced legal action and confiscation.
 
Mrrrosty1 said:
ocuk perhaps let us quote our canceled order numbers and details for id and let us order before they go online, that would give us a chance we have all probably missed out 3 times now here, what do you think ????, regards
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If ocuk was to let us get a deal before they put them online there would be less chance for the scalpers, it would be a reward for the people who are genuine customers, what do you reckon ????
 
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TheBloke said:
The most recent communications from OcUK have been that the AIB cards will be listed on the site from 14:00 tomorrow as with last week. However, this time they won't actually enable the buy buttons until some unspecified time later.

The rationale is that the site will be inundated and on its knees at the stated launch time. So rather than risk the site going down and over-selling last week, they'll not enable the buy buttons until later, by which hopefully the mass rush of traffic will have calmed down a bit.

I don't think they've said whether they'll announce the 'buy' time on the forum or not.

My concern is that this plan will just mean that we have to keep F5 hammering the site for hours instead of 30 minutes. But I suppose if the plan has not been widely communicated, it's possible that a lot of people will give up thinking the cards are out of stock.

Also: they said that the AIB cards will be on pre-order, and that the stock won't come in until "late Nov / early December". So even if you get one, expect to wait a week or two for delivery.
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Sounds like an absolute nightmare. I felt as if I was hoodwinked with the launch last Wednesday, hammering F5 on the AMD listing at OCUK only to get locked out of the forum until 2.39pm. Saw Gibbo’s post about the hidden links and could not even get in to it. By the time I did, all the 6800XT’s were gone.
 
Marak said:
I'm sorry chap but it simply sounds like you have sour grapes that you are not getting a product at the price you want it.

"but regulation to stop false/artificial inflation" - that is what price controls are!

How the hell can anyone say what the price of a product should be unless they are either the buyer or seller? What is false/artificial inflation? Nonsense - OCUK have upped the price to a level you are unhappy with so they can make more profit, that's all (and by the way I agree it's too much for me and is why I'm not buying a 6000 series from here). But if some people are willing to pay the price, then OCUK have every right to charge it.

A brief list of examples of price fixing failing which took me about 15 seconds to search for: https://mises.org/library/four-thousand-years-price-control
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i aint sour about anything i have got my product elsewhere at retail pricing so you can get of your high horse :) sounds to me like you don't like my opinion which is fine as ive said but lets agree to disagree and we can stop here, as i dont and wont agree with you. enjoy your inflated costed products and il enjoy mine at retail price. but as i say if people keep buying at raised prices things will only get worse, look at phone prices now compared to 5 years ago.

ps your article is proof of nothing, i asked for proof of regulation that doesn't work in your opinion, but again dont worry about it as again i think we are done here :)
 
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