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Notifying us of pre order date changes

Retroglide

Retroglide

Retroglide

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Placed an order for the Gaming X Trio based on the stock ETA 18th Sept. My account says Order Received - Processing Payment
ETA has now gone and replaced with Pre Order!
Will I be notified with regards to this change/ETA and what will happen next?
 
All the ETA dates have gone now and just say preorder - for me at least.
Is that better, to stop the surges for certain cards, or worse as now it is pot luck if you log in and there's stock?
 
probably OcUK picking up the pieces from yesterday's surge and genuine uncertainty around product shipments

what happens next is you wait to be told what is happening

my advice would be to chill, go enjoy the weekend and forget about GPUs for a week. If something nice and boxy arrives feel free to share the good news :cool:
 
Retroglide said:
Placed an order for the Gaming X Trio based on the stock ETA 18th Sept. My account says Order Received - Processing Payment
ETA has now gone and replaced with Pre Order!
Will I be notified with regards to this change/ETA and what will happen next?
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The ETA's I believe are just labels on the website, they aren't linked to anything dynamically so they could sell thousands of them and take all the money knowing they are only getting 20-30 in today and they would have sold out within minutes yesterday.. That's not knocking them, that's just the observed reality.
 
You realise that OcUK I expect won't have a clear understanding of how many cards and when they are coming right?
It is never clear until a few days before for GPU allocation at launch and then for the 1st couple of batches afterwards.

So OcUK cannot tell you what they also will not know.
 
Ace Modder said:
You realise that OcUK I expect won't have a clear understanding of how many cards and when they are coming right?
It is never clear until a few days before for GPU allocation at launch and then for the 1st couple of batches afterwards.

So OcUK cannot tell you what they also will not know.
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I think people are imagining the board partners have a big warehouse full of cards and are just deciding when to ship them to retailers. Probably more the case that as soon as they come off the production line they’ll be shipped to retailers in dribs and drabs.
 
Ace Modder said:
You realise that OcUK I expect won't have a clear understanding of how many cards and when they are coming right?
It is never clear until a few days before for GPU allocation at launch and then for the 1st couple of batches afterwards.

So OcUK cannot tell you what they also will not know.
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They should do as they have already paid for them.

And don't forget caseking distributes them.
 
Stu999 said:
I think people are imagining the board partners have a big warehouse full of cards and are just deciding when to ship them to retailers. Probably more the case that as soon as they come off the production line they’ll be shipped to retailers in dribs and drabs.
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They are generally made in Vietnam aren't they? Or Taiwan? So surely take 6 weeks to ship anyway

That's why I don't understand why vendors aren't confirming clock speeds on some cards - The will already be packed in boxes, in shipping containers and on the ocean.
 
Ace Modder said:
You realise that OcUK I expect won't have a clear understanding of how many cards and when they are coming right?
It is never clear until a few days before for GPU allocation at launch and then for the 1st couple of batches afterwards.

So OcUK cannot tell you what they also will not know.
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Stu999 said:
I think people are imagining the board partners have a big warehouse full of cards and are just deciding when to ship them to retailers. Probably more the case that as soon as they come off the production line they’ll be shipped to retailers in dribs and drabs.
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I think everyone understands that, but factories, distributors etc all work on schedules, and would have some idea a few days before of some form of estimated schedule and quantities.. But that's not the real issue, the issue is that even with limited information they still had "ETA: 18th September" for some cards late last night..

SOme competitors have what looks to be a 2 week schedule of incoming GPUs and so when one scheduled load is sold they increase the ETA to the next dynamically..
 
@Demon - I would guess sites don’t want to put up information and then for it to be wrong. Look at the X570 Tomahawk mobo thread. There were ETAs that were missed when stuff didn’t get on the boat/plane on the expected day.
 
deuse said:
They should do as they have already paid for them.

And don't forget caseking distributes them.
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No, OCUK have credit accounts with all suppliers.
Also OcUK doesn't source GPUs from Caseking.

This is why Ocuk adjust pricing on stock when the exchange rates change, most likely they have 30 or 60 credit terms. Most items are bought directly from manufacturers in USD or sometimes in Euros

So day delivery of x item @ $100 = £76.92 at a 1.30 rate.
They haven't paid yet.....

If the rate starts to drop to 1.2 rate one week later, OcUK will adjust price up as their cost becomes £83.33 as they haven't paid yet as the payment for the stock isnt due for another 3 weeks.
 
Ace Modder said:
No, OCUK have credit accounts with all suppliers.
Also OcUK doesn't source GPUs from Caseking.

This is why Ocuk adjust pricing on stock when the exchange rates change, most likely they have 30 or 60 credit terms. Most items are bought directly from manufacturers in USD or sometimes in Euros

So day delivery of x item @ $100 = £76.92 at a 1.30 rate.
They haven't paid yet.....

If the rate starts to drop to 1.2 rate one week later, OcUK will adjust price up as their cost becomes £83.33 as they haven't paid yet as the payment for the stock isnt due for another 3 weeks.
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I saw this
"we are closely cooperating with manufacturers in terms of product design, marketing and distribution policies, "

https://www.caseking.de/en/distribution and https://www.caseking.de/en/brands#list_all_brands_N

I could be wrong.
 
Ace Modder said:
Yes for some product categories I think OcUK does buy product from Caseking (their partner company) but for GPU this is not the case. OcUK sources GPUs themselves from the mnuafacturers.
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Never knew that.

Well the £ has gone back up.
Lets see the prices come down :)
 
Jay85 said:
Gibbo explained earlier that he had removed the pre-order dates around 4pm but due to the site crashing and overloaded it was very slow to update. If you ordered before 4pm you might get your card, anything after you'll be looking at back end of October i think as per other resellers as well. He did say he will make an announcement tomorrow though when he has a meeting with board partners and nvidia with regards to supply so we'll have to wait and see.

Not sure if many people actually pre ordered either as the site was down for a good while and has only been back up since around 10:30pm ish but i suspect people who saw the dates prior to them being updated would have jumped on it anyway, myself included.
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Ace Modder said:
You realise that OcUK I expect won't have a clear understanding of how many cards and when they are coming right?
It is never clear until a few days before for GPU allocation at launch and then for the 1st couple of batches afterwards.

So OcUK cannot tell you what they also will not know.
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They should! Then this mess wouldn't happen. Not hard to put a number on how many is or isn't in stock. This is 2020 not 1980's.
 
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