Soldato
this is gonna be the same for the 3090 ill just wait to see how it performs but glad I didn't jump on the wagon seems likes there's a lot of disappointed ppl.
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What you have to remember is a lot of webshops use automatic pricing rules and logic, so when demand is high the price goes up without any human interaction as its just following a set of rules based on web analytics.
Hi All!
I've spent the last hour and a half on the phone waiting to speak to someone at Overclockers, finally got through to someone and been advised they took no stock of the EVGA cards and that they're currently reaching out to suppliers to find out when they'll get them. When they finally do get them they will send an email out but there is no ETA on this.
Hope this helps someone in the same situation as me!
Reading the first post would have saved you from that phone call.
I've ordered my Gaming X Trio at 10.26PM yesterday and now it is "Order received - not yet shipped".
Whatever that means.
I've requested cancellation of my order im gonna be patient and wait till nvidia get stock in their store and grab an FE for £650 instead of paying £720 for a lower level card.
Honestly these retailers should be ashamed of themselves price scalping
Honestly these retailers should be ashamed of themselves price scalping
Soldato
Heres a thought, what if the 3080ti or super appears in reasonable numbers to buy in or around the 28th October?
Nvidia have had the market research already done for them by the debacle of what this launch has been. They know people are now prepared to much more than the msrp for these cards, even the scalpers (scum) on the bay are probably gonna sell "some" of those cards at vastly inflated prices.
So now they've lined potential buyers up for later on when AMD release RDNA2. I might be wrong though!
Nvidia have had the market research already done for them by the debacle of what this launch has been. They know people are now prepared to much more than the msrp for these cards, even the scalpers (scum) on the bay are probably gonna sell "some" of those cards at vastly inflated prices.
So now they've lined potential buyers up for later on when AMD release RDNA2. I might be wrong though!
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Soldato
The original prices on the site were a farce, its that simple, I as a purchasing manager myself I would have started the prices off as they are now, which are competitive compared to other e-tailers, rather than create the illusion of cheaper pricing, now I understand the tactic, but is was poor one, and arguably an unethical one at that. The interest in these cards were off the charts, they didn't need to play the 'cheapest launch price card' and end upsetting whole swathes of their own customers, it should never be about about making larger short term profits, company reputation is important, every single one of my customers is treated as a potential long term contract, and trust is a key element of maintaining that contract.
And who sets-up that 'logic' and governs it's rules, did AI set the pricing?
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Hi All!
I've spent the last hour and a half on the phone waiting to speak to someone at Overclockers, finally got through to someone and been advised they took no stock of the EVGA cards and that they're currently reaching out to suppliers to find out when they'll get them. When they finally do get them they will send an email out but there is no ETA on this.
Hope this helps someone in the same situation as me!
Thanks for the heads up.
This is a bit frustrating. Had I known my EVGA 3080 order was a pre-order with no ETA for stock I wouldn't have ordered it from here, or would have picked a different card. I foolishly assumed it was ordering for stock they had ready to ship, I was not aware of this thread listing stock until late in the evening.
Soldato
Its like they are surprised and dismayed its happening. Havent these people ever experienced a GPU launch before or seen the OCUK website straining under the weight of people trying to access it ?
Its like the 9xx launch all over again
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Reading the first post would have saved you from that phone call.
I've ordered my Gaming X Trio at 10.26PM yesterday and now it is "Order received - not yet shipped".
Whatever that means.
If you ordered that late in the day expect delivery in a least January.
Caporegime
There's pretty much zero chance that a Ti or Super would be released within a month or two.
ahh the way people where posting i thought it was literally changing when they checked out and then got stung.
like i said, once they ran out of cheaper cards they should have waited for today to list the new prices, or if the site hadnt died posted a big update stating prices will change and sales go live again at a set time. this changing mid day was just shambolic.
That is automated gouging though, sorry, 'surge pricing'
but that isn't what was claimed to be happening here.Retail price changing due to cost price of the specific batch being sold at that moment being different to the previous batch of stock sold a moment before is a legitimate defence.
Was I foolish for ordering based on the advertised ETA? I ordered the MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio as it mentioned ETA of today. Hopeful that they would receive the stock today and dispatch same day ready for me tomorrow. Now I typed that it sounds dumb.
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Wow, I almost had a heart attack, i thought my whole order was refunded as i had pointed out in ticket that the price had gone down but:
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We'll have more information about stock availability later today, where we'll be sending an email update to all customers with a pre-order pending.
Thanks very much for your patience!
I can see the card's current price is £719.99 so I've refunded the difference of £30 to your account.
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Fantastic! OCUK got our backs just hang tight.
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We'll have more information about stock availability later today, where we'll be sending an email update to all customers with a pre-order pending.
Thanks very much for your patience!
I can see the card's current price is £719.99 so I've refunded the difference of £30 to your account.
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Fantastic! OCUK got our backs just hang tight.
Exactly, I wish I could reflect exchange rate prices at the time of sale for all the items my company sells. If they are really seeing these level of cost increases between orders when they order stocks with Nvidia then that's a really poor show. Maybe a bit unlikely.
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That’s exactly what I did.
How hard is it to cancel an order with these guys? Think I’ll do that.
Soldato
Well I'm probably wrong as I said in me post, (I'm a very cynical old git) but I'll be watching very closely around that time.
haha good one
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