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Cooper1987 said:
There has been At least 2 Strix delivery’s in last 2 weeks I’ve just received mine so don’t know where you pulled that from...
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The most recent announcement by Gibbo that 3080 Strix OC cards would be dispatched was on 26 October. This is the 3080 forum and my post did not refer to "Strix" but "Strix OC".
 
There's a lot I could contest because you obviously still go on about talking like you know everything about savings and everyone's financial situation while from your words it's clear you don't know Jack, but I'll just focus on this:

PrincessFrosty said:
The fact that the queues are 1000s' of people long should be good evidence that people want queues.
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That's a wild jump in logic there: the queues are in the 1000s because people aren't told how long the queue is when they enter it. If at the moment of doing the preorder people were told "There's 3000 people ahead of you already in this queue, would you like to continue?" things would probably be very different.
 
LoZeno said:
That's a wild jump in logic there: the queues are in the 1000s because people aren't told how long the queue is when they enter it. If at the moment of doing the preorder people were told "There's 3000 people ahead of you already in this queue, would you like to continue?" things would probably be very different.
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... and yet they stay there even when they do know the queue length after the first weekly email...

I do agree though that posting the queue length on the sales page would be more open, but when it is the only game in town if you don't want to snipe for cards, I'm not sure how much of a difference it would make...
 
Just out of curiosity.. is there any price monitoring /regulatory agency for businesses in the UK or is it the law of a jungle? E**Y scalping is understandable as mostly people are private sellers but what about legit registered businesses which are scalping and selling these cards at their own prices? I know someone who was lucky to get the card at MRSP and his partner had to buy the same card almost 200£ expensive! From an "authorised reseller"
 
A 3080 poem..

In September I had a dream,
Of a cool new card with a funky little screen.
Then November came,and to my shame,
I'd sold my 1080 so I could upgrade my game.
Now I miss that little card that could,
So I've made a replacement with balsa wood.
At zero fps its not the best,
And it definitely won't pass the crysis test,
But at least its in my system,straining with fatigue,
Because somehow it still runs rocket league
 
Kevin Hopkins said:
A 3080 poem..

In September I had a dream,
Of a cool new card with a funky little screen.
Then November came,and to my shame,
I'd sold my 1080 so I could upgrade my game.
Now I miss that little card that could,
So I've made a replacement with balsa wood.
At zero fps its not the best,
And it definitely won't pass the crysis test,
But at least its in my system,straining with fatigue,
Because somehow it still runs rocket league
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*claps* *cries* what an emotional ride :P
 
Ju2ef said:
It's ridiculous. I'm 46th, according to this I should have gotten my dispatch email yesterday. Discord team confirmed to me that whatever got shipped to the store is now dispatched. Do you have the statement from @GIGA-Man at hand? I want to screenshot it and shove it on the discord and ask about it. I want to hear them say that he is lying. This is beyond a joke, serious company can't explain where the stock has gone. If I was a 5 year old I'd believe them. Makes me think, all the bum lickers here must be 5
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I'll do one better, here's the screenshot of @GIGA-Man's post BsxG8mX.png
 
Teal said:
... and yet they stay there even when they do know the queue length after the first weekly email...
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...which is a very well know phenomenon in retail known as "sunken costs perception", aka once they have committed to the purchase they feel that stepping back would be worse; there's a lot of psychology that is put behind this stuff, once you reel a customer in they are less likely to leave, not because they trust you but because they perceive that leaving is a worse off option.
 
Bazz21uk said:
Whilst i get your point i don't agree. By the time a lot of people move a significant amount in the queue here you will be able to buy one easily elsewhere. Money in their bank or yours is the choice. Personally i'd prefer to have my cash in my own bank :)

You use bots? then you will have noticed an increase in 3080s everywhere else. a competitor for example just got 3080 zotac for £779.99 that will arrive with them before the 30th nov (its normally much sooner). They have been there for just under 10mins now. The zotac is a great card. Its also the one ocuk had in stock here only yesterday at a way higher price.

If you want to queue then fair enough but i totally expect you yourself wont end up getting your card from here either. You run bots so you're clearly looking for an out and not just patiently queueing :p

The 1000s in queues ISNT a sign people like queuing lmao. Its a sign that people want the product and a queue place is the ONLY option when others dont have a buy now button. OCUK are openly exploiting this.
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Then people will cancel their orders here and order elsewhere once availability becomes good enough. I don't think that'll happen for most of the people in the queues but I'm not going to argue back and forth over predictions on the future that neither of us can prove, the bottom line is it's a safer bet to have your fingers in multiple pies at the same time if what you want is something ASAP. I couldn't really care less if my cash is in my bank or OCUKs bank with a day or so delay on getting it back, it's a difference without distinction to me. I'm responsible with my finances and make sure I have savings put to one side so I'm not buying luxury products close to being broke. That gives me loads of options to preorder all over the place and still use bots to try and opportunistically snag one in the meantime.

And yes I've seen the increase in 3080s elsewhere but they're tiny numbers which are gone literally instantly, even if you do bot which many 1000's of people are, huge swaths of those people do not get cards and they've been doing it for weeks or months. Yes I saw the drop at our orange friends and I could jump on that but I don't want a Zotac brand and also the card is too long for my case, it'd intrude on my HDD cage.

I may or may not get my card from OCUK in the end, I'll do whatever is in my best interest which is to have my fingers in many pies at once and then whatever comes first I'll take and the rest I'll cancel. I'm 217 in queue here and there's an OK drop expected in the next few days, that + reliable cancellations will put me into the ~150 range. If I beat my OCUK queue with a bot I will have been a lucky exception at this rate, it's not reliable AND you need to be able to idle and react to the bot alerts instantly which I'm in a lucky position to be able to do just because of my particular circumstances, most people cannot do that.

People generally speaking do what is in their best interest and there's loads of people queuing in the OCUK queues because that's in their best interest.

What really f'ing grinds my gears is the people that come along and start demanding that pre order queues should be stopped at a certain length or stopped all togehter. It's like Person A wants to queue because that's what is best for them, Company B wants to provide pre-order queues to fill the demand that exists in the market. But person C is like "no no you can't do that, you can't voluntarily trade with each other in a way you're both happy with, I DEMAND you both trade in a way that makes me happy", if those people could just quietly go away, that'd be grand.
 
Dr_rizvi said:
Just out of curiosity.. is there any price monitoring /regulatory agency for businesses in the UK or is it the law of a jungle? E**Y scalping is understandable as mostly people are private sellers but what about legit registered businesses which are scalping and selling these cards at their own prices? I know someone who was lucky to get the card at MRSP and his partner had to buy the same card almost 200£ expensive! From an "authorised reseller"
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'Scalping' is just a consumer invented term, by law in fact, retailers are free to charge what they want and that is why MSRP is only ever a 'suggested' price.
 
Nutloose said:
Well TUF 3080 OC is in my small clammy hands as we speak... on to Ebay..NOT!

I just hope my RM850 Power supply arrives soon, its shipped from a place other than here... I will try it with my RM650 first though.. Ohhhhhh I am all excited :D I do hope you all can join in the fun soon... its been a farce.
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650w Gang
 
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