The tweet is somewhat old, but I had totally glossed over the reply they made regarding stock, hence why I posted it on the thread.Well that wasn't "just tweeted" but rather 4 days ago and had already been posted by G3N3RIK himself on page 1 of this thread, actually, so I assume he is referring to a newer tweet.
Stock situations look EVEN worse for Aorus. With everything going on, me being in the position I am, I'd be lucky to receive my card by December or even January. If this happens, 2 things will happen going forward- OCUK and Gigabyte will never have my money again. Ordered 17th at launch time. Still 2 months waiting with nearly a grand out of my account and nothing to show for it.
OCUK have totally ignored the last 'shipment concern' and gigabyte aren't actually giving us any real answers. For one of the flagship premium cards, we're really getting shafted. Seems the customers who believed in gigabyte and the premium card bs, have just been told to deal with the delays and expect the card whenever the feel like shipping more. Also add the additional 3080 waterforce... and you've now got a joke.
Gigabyte, instead of focusing on Hundreds and Thousands of orders (just in the UK alone) for the 3080+3090, have decided it's a good decision to release a water cooled GPU for sale which will undoubtadly slow production for other cards... before they even address the limitations of stock for the previous cards. Joke.
OCUK are 100% going to use the lockdown as an excuse. Without a doubt. The lockdown is going to cause some delays. Add ontop that on Jan 1 we have brexit, and that is going to slow everything down EVEN more. I have my build parts ready to go, without a bloody GPU to go in.
At this point, I don't even care about my watchdogs code. Something which is a totally different problem.
OCUK and Gigabyte have almost certainly lost a lot of future customers going onwards.