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NVIDIA 4000 Series

Just got told by a college he ordered a MSI Suprim X for £1749 a top end card for £50 more than the FE MSRP too. I don't understand how some cards were even over £2k and the inno3d rtx-4090-ichill was over £2.5k for a cheap card with a cheap water block on here and could be had elsewhere for almost £700 less. Come on something is really wrong now. Anyways vote with your wallets.
 
Gypsum Fantastic said:
Okay, so here was my buying experience from yesterday. I really would like OCUK to listen to this and actually improve things for the next big launch. I prefer to shop here because I rate the company and the service they provide. The intel on stock levels is great and I enjoy this forum in the leadup. But it's not all unicorns and rainbows.

I had several tabs open yesterday, with retailers in order of preference and a single-minded focus on getting a Suprim X 4090. OCUK was tab one, other large specialist retailers followed according to my previous experiences with them.

1:59 and some seconds: Suprim X buy button appears on OCUK. I hit add to basket, whole site freezes and a whole precious minute passes, so I refresh the page and hit it again, knowing that probably half the stock has already disappeared in that minute and that stock is fast disappearing from alternative retailers. OCUK is running down the clock with a website that just can't cope with a few thousand visitors. Awful.

2:02 I manage to get it added to basket and go to checkout. Get to the proceed to payment button and site freezes again. This is where my loyalty to OCUK runs out. Not least because the card I want is £50 more expensive here than LITERALLY EVERY OTHER RETAILER.

2:05 I switch to my second-choice retailer. It's still showing more than 20 in stock. No issues with site freeze, it's £50 cheaper than OCUK. Click, in basket, pay, done, all within 30 seconds. Order confirmed within 1 minute, dispatch email received later that evening.

So, a website that breaks down at the crucial moment. A £50 premium over all other retailers. And finally, and importantly, a strong chance that if you miss the boat thanks to problems with the website, OCUK will take your money anyway — which honestly, I think is just completely unacceptable. No one should ever be 'oversold'. That's deliberate, and it's potentially a massive inconvenience to the customer that could delay them getting one of these cards from any source for weeks, potentially.

OCUK has had plenty of time to fix this since the last big NVIDIA launch. To ensure user capacity in its online systems, even for just these special days. And it hasn't done that, it is also overcharging, and it is taking orders when it doesn't have stock. For these reasons, I am glad I purchased from elsewhere. Hurts to say it because I've been a customer here for more years than I can count, but there it is. It needs to do better.

I will be getting my card today, but OCUK almost blew it for me by wasting my time when every second counted.
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tbf this post is summed up perfectly i really like overclockers ability to get certain items that other retailers dont get but the sad reality for me is the past 3 orders i have done with them i havent received any item i ordered a g9 monitor with them which they allowed to go through but infact hadnt stock of said monitor which went on for over a month so had to eventually cancel and order elsewhere,

the second order i done was the rtx 3090 gigabyte vision d card which again they oversold on me and was left with my money in limbo for a large length of time so again i had to cancel and order elsewhere,

and then my most recent was yesterday going for the 4090 card in which i constantly got a weight exceeded error then when i got to the basket finally with a card it kept crashing until finally i got to the paypal screen, was able to select the paypal pay in 3 option which they take the 1st of the 3 payments at that point clicked the bit to return to overclockers which is where you click to finalise the order and surprise surprise the website crashed and kicked me back to the start so i was left with no 4090 and a large chunk of money taken from my card which will now take days to be returned, i was beyond ****** and unless overclockers get their act together they will lose quite a lot of customers thankfully the forum is great
 
Purgatory said:
Just got told by a college he ordered a MSI Suprim X for £1749 a top end card for £50 more than the FE MSRP too. I don't understand how some cards were even over £2k and the inno3d rtx-4090-ichill was over £2.5k for a cheap card with a cheap water block on here and could be had elsewhere for almost £700 less. Come on something is really wrong now. Anyways vote with your wallets.
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Your colleague lied – maybe not including VAT, or he's getting confused. I was after one (and got one) and saw the pricing from every single retailer, and no one was anywhere near that on the Suprim X. One site had them at that price up to about 13:30 on the day before it changed to £2,079 (half hour prior to actual availability).

I'd say in general always be cautious when it comes to stories of super-bargains because some people make them up for the perverse pleasure they get watching people get angry about having paid more. And knowing they'll spread the story without seeing proof.
 
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Purgatory said:
Just got told by a college he ordered a MSI Suprim X for £1749 a top end card for £50 more than the FE MSRP too. I don't understand how some cards were even over £2k and the inno3d rtx-4090-ichill was over £2.5k for a cheap card with a cheap water block on here and could be had elsewhere for almost £700 less. Come on something is really wrong now. Anyways vote with your wallets.
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God that's even worse. Yeah **** it I'm gonna send mine back and wait. A months time same money will get me the best card.
 
Jay85 said:
Supply and demand, they continue to up the price until supply "normalises".
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They are still in stock in some places right now and some retailers that played they ran out of stock yesterday have stuck some back on this morning. The demand is there and the stocks are there with these, with 30 series there really was a shortage for a long while then retailers deliberately drip fed them when FEs were hard to get at one point so they could price gouge them, look at what a 3090 use to cost over £3k for a card they can still sell now for £950 and still make a profit on, no one is losing money on what they are selling , look at the 3090ti msrp £2k and was even gouged in the start to over £3.5-4k buy some retailers and later they realised no demand and went to msrp and realised they can't sell them at £2k even now they are £1k and still not selling because people were waiting for 40 series and hoping the silly games were over but clearly not.
 
Mine is due to arrive today before 10.45.
Didn't buy though from OC as the price was £100 more than every other retailer for the same card - I got the Zotac basic model.
Did have the ASUS TUF in my basket for £1699 as well but must have just missed out.

Most places were sold out completely in 10 minutes, with OC taking over 30 due to having much higher prices than other retailers + When I tried to order from OC their site was constantly crashing.
 
I like the way you look at the Nvidia store and it lists the AIB cards with links to check availability, but the “From £1699” price is not the price that is available on the links. Even those links that say £1699, most are considerably more when you actually click on them.

On the US store front they are really plugging the 3090Ti, it’s the top featured card in fact, listed at $1049.99, limited to 5 units per person.

It’s similar on the UK store front too but they’re plugging the 3080Ti as the featured card but with no unit limit per person.

So by artificially restricting the 4090FE cards at launch they’re clearly hoping people with opt for a 3080Ti or 3090Ti instead. Got to clear all of those old cards first apparently!

Waiting for AMD to show their hand and then I’ll make a decision for myself. If Nvidia still have the better card then I shall patiently wait for a 4090FE but here’s hoping AMD surprise us, and Nvidia.

Personally, I couldn’t bring myself to blindly buy an AIB card without even being able to confirm the specs first. Bit different if they were only £300 but at current pricing, it’s all a bit mad really.
 
Just got my iChill X3. Really wanted an FE like my 3090 but I don't want to be waiting weeks or months and deal with the stress of checking my phone for alerts. I remember how bad it was with the 3090 :D

£1900...made me feel a little sick hitting that buy button
 
Gypsum Fantastic said:
Your colleague lied – maybe not including VAT, or he's getting confused. I was after one (and got one) and saw the pricing from every single retailer, and no one was anywhere near that on the Suprim X. One site had them at that price up to about 13:30 on the day before it changed to £2,079 (half hour prior to actual availability).

I'd say in general always be cautious when it comes to stories of super-bargains because some people make them up for the perverse pleasure they get watching people get angry about having paid more. And knowing they'll spread the story without seeing proof.
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He works with me lol why would he lie and he ordered it from a workstation company we buy hardware from and where we purchased the Zotacs from and the ASUS tufs was from another well known retailer. He's sat here waiting for it to appear like the others all excited like kids .. I didn't realise he ordered one as the company purchased the other 4 cards for the staff in one order and he later ordered one he said because he decided to update his titan volta after seeing the reviews.

I saw cards massively priced different from retailer to retailer at one point and was clear what was happening they were making up their own prices.
 
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Purgatory said:
They are still in stock in some places right now and some retailers that played they ran out of stock yesterday have stuck some back on this morning. The demand is there and the stocks are there with these, with 30 series there really was a shortage for a long while then retailers deliberately drip fed them when FEs were hard to get at one point so they could price gouge them, look at what a 3090 use to cost over £3k for a card they can still sell now for £950 and still make a profit on, no one is losing money on what they are selling , look at the 3090ti msrp £2k and was even gouged in the start to over £3.5-4k buy some retailers and later they realised no demand and went to msrp and realised they can't sell them at £2k even now they are £1k and still not selling because people were waiting for 40 series and hoping the silly games were over but clearly not.
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It'll never end imo, aslong as people are willing to overpay for things it will continue. Retailers will just find the next latest thing to scalp to take advantage of those willing to fork out for it.

As long as nvidia drip feeds the FE, the AIB cards will eventually sell whether its at 2k or 2.5k people just don't have the willpower to restrain themselves due to FOMO.
 
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