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rustyk21 said:
It's also quite interesting how many people are saying they have placed multiple orders at multiple sites. If you really really want something then fine, but that kind of fomo behaviour is basically the same as panic buying, as it creates false demand.
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Not really because most of the people joining multiple queues are cancelling the other orders when one finally arrives, so the actual number of units bought is the same. And the "demand" doesn't matter anyway because they're all out of stock everywhere and until there's a live and healthy supply chain with product on shelves that needs restocking any apparant demand wont matter.

Plus most stores are not run by idiots, they know a certain % of their customers will cancel either because of getting bored waiting or because they've ordered elsewhere and factor that into their own purchasing.
 
OG Don Mecca said:
I agree

People getting all bent out of shape about it and moaning in here aint gonna help anything

Were all in the same boat

Fundamentally there are 2 choices. Stick it out or cancel

There is no point crying over spilt milk
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Or do the smart thing, not queueing for a piece of computer hardware, which isn't even that good unless you do 1440p, and wait for the card to be in stick.

Honestly I am confused what exactly someone with a faulty card expect? If you get a card in a queue and it does not work no one will magically find one to please you, there are none, Nvidia's fault they are tricking AIB too ******* them off with greedy margins (head to YouTube for that). Who gets faulty GPU now will have to wait as most likely any retail will give stock to paying customers, right nor not right, and not use said cards for replacement, not when there are people willing to queue for a GPU.....
 
martind said:
usual stream of negative crap, all the people moaning! ffs cancel and go elsewhere! really sick of hearing your spoilt child rhetoric! theres only so much of this normal people can take, i suggest some of you get yourselves a new hobby and get a fresh perspective on life.
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I buy IT equipment for a living, how OC have operated this launch is genuinely an embarrassment! We know it’s not life and death.

None of it makes sense for a business, all the current orders are cancelling and new customers to OC like me will never come back.

Managed to bag a FE 3070, just don’t understand the logic I have ordered many items that have longest times but always get an ETA is that so much to ask for?
 
Lexit said:
There is chaos at the ports and the stock situation is not getting better anytime soon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54908129

Prices may even go up and anyone with a locked in price should hang in there. Patience!
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If you are stupid enough to believe anything the BBC says then you deserve to be misled! This is the corporation which although mandated to be impartial took the remain side over Brexit and is using the example of one single port to try and give the impression it's happening everywhere. It isn't and GPUs are freighted into the UK by air anyway.
 
Flake87 said:
If you are stupid enough to believe anything the BBC says then you deserve to be misled! This is the corporation which although mandated to be impartial took the remain side over Brexit and is using the example of one single port to try and give the impression it's happening everywhere. It isn't and GPUs are freighted into the UK by air anyway.
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This from a trustworthy pro-leave source:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rtages-container-port-Felixstowe-clogged.html
 
Lexit said:
This from a trustworthy pro-leave source:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rtages-container-port-Felixstowe-clogged.html
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The Daily Mail is strongly pro Remain anti Trump and far Left, its previous stance changed when editor Paul Dacre left and was replaced with a new 'woke' one. I can tell you that the cash & carry I have an account with haven't had their Christmas shipment which was supposed to arrive in June July, that's because we rely on China to make everything for us.
 
Trustdesa said:
Or do the smart thing, not queueing for a piece of computer hardware, which isn't even that good unless you do 1440p, and wait for the card to be in stick.

Honestly I am confused what exactly someone with a faulty card expect? If you get a card in a queue and it does not work no one will magically find one to please you, there are none, Nvidia's fault they are tricking AIB too ******* them off with greedy margins (head to YouTube for that). Who gets faulty GPU now will have to wait as most likely any retail will give stock to paying customers, right nor not right, and not use said cards for replacement, not when there are people willing to queue for a GPU.....
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I would have hoped they kept 1 or 2 back for just this occurance tbh. I know a competitor does and as such can offer 48hr replacement
 
Bazz21uk said:
I would have hoped they kept 1 or 2 back for just this occurance tbh. I know a competitor does and as such can offer 48hr replacement
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No idea what he's talking about when saying what does someone with a faulty card expect?
Certainly not to go to the back of the queue for a start! No one is asking OCUK to send invisible stock, but to want to RMA the card for a different one and to have to wait as if it's a new purchase through no fault of my own, due to MSIs shoddy backplates, is unfair.
 
Dean Guile said:
No idea what he's talking about when saying what does someone with a faulty card expect?
Certainly not to go to the back of the queue for a start! No one is asking OCUK to send invisible stock, but to want to RMA the card for a different one and to have to wait as if it's a new purchase through no fault of my own, due to MSIs shoddy backplates, is unfair.
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His attitude is just a sign of the times. Some people (usually under 35 but not exclusively) have been programmed to be loyal to private corporations no matter what way they behave, and the old 'customer is always right' has been replaced with 'the customer is an entitled *****' who should just go away if he isn't happy.

I've come across this attitude many times in recent years. Enthusiast communities are the worst. I once had a very expensive keyboard with a chattering/denounce issue. In the support forum for that product I got accused of being an agent from a competing company spreading disinformation, was told I wasn't typing correctly, that I didn't understand switch technology etc - anything but accept the truth that the keyboard had an issue. in the end, the keyboard was fixed with an update that extended the debounce time - but not until months later and thousands of RMA's.

In marketing speak these people that defend corporate behaviour are called digital champions.
 
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