If Nvidia wanted to create a situation where people were desperate to get their hands on a 30-series graphics card, believed it was nearly impossible to get one in reasonable time and might be prepared to pay inflated prices to get it more quickly, then they have succeeded.
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I'm not in the 3080 queue as such, but that's not really the reality of the situation (meaning the getting more, not where from)
Competitors also have pre-order queues and those who don't may occassionally add 5-10 in stock for sale that you either need to be constantly refreshing their pages for.. or can't buy because you haven't been a customer for x years (I am a customer of one.. and can't add to cart, for instance)
The reality is, a few cards here and there are currently being distributed and shared amongs retailers, to show they exist, but the real (larger) shipments are not here yet because it was a paper launch a month or so too early.
Yes, you may be lucky else where, but it really is that.. luck, otherwise.. there would be no queue and would be no long threads of people waiting and checking here there and everywhere for a glimmer of the pitiful stock levels atm. The grass really isn't that much greener elsewhere, unless perhaps you are 2,000 + in the OC queue.. then it might be
... and those AIB's have been saying things like 'We have a shipment going to the UK next week but you'll have to ask OCUK about anything more specific...'.
Those shipments go to distributors and then they get split up and sent out to the retailers.
The retailers will find out how many they are getting once the distributors decide what is going where.
Do you really want OCUK saying things like 'we think we may get some cards at some point in the next couple of weeks but we don't know how many or when...'
Note that in the case of Inno, where OCUK deal directly with them Gibbo has been talking about the timing for a shipment leaving Inno and when it should arrive with OCUK.
Where they have good quality information they are sharing it.
This is not a normal supply-chain right now, the pipe was empty when Nvidia launched so all the usual rules about order fulfilment and lead times have gone out of the window sadly.
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No, they are not.
One of their competitors clearly is. The difference between them and OCUK over this is night and day.
I'm no OC fanboy.. not at all, in fact I buy more on one of those other sites than here.. but do you mean the site that is putting ETA info on and then changing it and delaying and updating the dates a lot.. with no quantities mentioned other than pre-orders outstanding. That's not quality information, its just guesswork. Of course, you might be on about somewhere else and they may well be.. but is it really accurate, I wouldn't know tbf.
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Good luck actually getting a answer
Further proves my point that they have an ETA on the stock. Pretty simple
Its pretty naive of you to assume that the shipment doesn't get split up until it reaches the distributor
Stock will have been allocated to retailers probably before the shipment even leaves it's country of origin
Its not 1984 we have good methods of communication now
Anything would be better than radio silence. I think these 2 threads go a long way to show that the community isn't very happy with how it's being handled.
Again what makes you think they don't know their allocation of stock from the distributor ?
It would be nice for them to give some better ETA's
Well, ETA is exactly that, an estimated time of arrival. ETA's chchange, not guaranteed dates and also no mention of how many are coming in. Yeah, I see some ETA's here and there.. have done for a while and have also seen them never appear and the dates change. Or sometimes, some do actually arrive and they're gone before you even finish loading the page
I estimate that soon™ all this will be over and everybody wanting one, will have one.
to be fair that site seemed accurate to me. They said they would get some Gigabyte cards in the last three days of this week, which they did. It was at least 50 Gaming OC cards as that is where I was in the queue. Zero Haribo though, which is upsetting me.
Still haven't received my queue position for the ASUS TUF RTX 3080. Probably going to cancel soon. I was hoping to keep myself in the queue while I waited and checked other sites to get it sooner but it's looking like these cards won't be shifting any time soon and even when they do it will be about 2 cards at a time.
I don't really want to be sitting £700 out of pocket with no information, no guarantees, for months on end.
I don't really want to be sitting £700 out of pocket with no information, no guarantees, for months on end.
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It's better than deafening silence.
I am a long time customer of OCUK (look at my join date) and have bought almost all my major builds here. Have had no issue with them at all.
Until now...
Why still take pre-orders when there's no chance of fulfulling them in the near future?
And the cards they do get in seem to be, on some occasions, going into pre-builds. That is wrong.
The only reason for me to stick with them now is the free P&P. And I'm not even sure that's enough.
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Well, one month on from launch day. One month from £910 being taken out of my account. One month with not a single update about the model or even manufacturer of the card I ordered (EVGA 3080 FTW3).
I dont really have anything original to add to the thousand-or-so posts on the forums so far about this shambles, other than to add my name to the growing list of people for whom Overclockers are blacklisted.
It may be the case that EVGA are prioritising other markets, or that the exchange rate makes a difference, or golden week was last week. I knew I wasnt going to get my card on day 1, and I knew I was taking a bit of a punt on availability. I'm not cancelling my order as I know the card I want and I am 18th in the queue.
I've been working in commercial roles my entire life, and no matter whether you have good news, bad news, or no news, transparency and regular updates are the BASICS of good customer service.
All I want is some sort of sign that OcUK ACTUALLY cares. The lack of informantion, the availability of 3080 full builds on the site, the godawful communication and customer service all suggest they dont.
I dont really have anything original to add to the thousand-or-so posts on the forums so far about this shambles, other than to add my name to the growing list of people for whom Overclockers are blacklisted.
It may be the case that EVGA are prioritising other markets, or that the exchange rate makes a difference, or golden week was last week. I knew I wasnt going to get my card on day 1, and I knew I was taking a bit of a punt on availability. I'm not cancelling my order as I know the card I want and I am 18th in the queue.
I've been working in commercial roles my entire life, and no matter whether you have good news, bad news, or no news, transparency and regular updates are the BASICS of good customer service.
All I want is some sort of sign that OcUK ACTUALLY cares. The lack of informantion, the availability of 3080 full builds on the site, the godawful communication and customer service all suggest they dont.
It's likely that the situation won't change for the rest of the month (happy to proven wrong) but next month I honestly believe there will a lot more momentum.
You could always join the "scalper queue" and by that I don't mean the pre-orders for sale on the bay or forest, but the 3090 queue
it's a bit shorter.
Yeah, I mean still taking them is a bit, hmmm.. I can't disagree, although I'm glad they did for a few days at least, so I could at least join a queue (3090 one). Problem I see with it ongoing is, (made up numbers to follow) when 10k hit the shore, OC may well order 10k, but others may too... so its still somewhat of a split. Others will fulfil their orders and have stock, OC won't... many will then immediately jump ship because of availability and OC did themselves no favours and potentially risked making larger orders than they should.. at least, that's one way of thinking. The other is they feel more confident making larger orders because they have customers cash in bank, whereas others don't.
You could always join the "scalper queue" and by that I don't mean the pre-orders for sale on the bay or forest, but the 3090 queue
it's a bit shorter.Yeah, I mean still taking them is a bit, hmmm.. I can't disagree, although I'm glad they did for a few days at least, so I could at least join a queue (3090 one). Problem I see with it ongoing is, (made up numbers to follow) when 10k hit the shore, OC may well order 10k, but others may too... so its still somewhat of a split. Others will fulfil their orders and have stock, OC won't... many will then immediately jump ship because of availability and OC did themselves no favours and potentially risked making larger orders than they should.. at least, that's one way of thinking. The other is they feel more confident making larger orders because they have customers cash in bank, whereas others don't.
well it says available soon. Coming from 5/11. Only says that on 2 of the cards. Have clicked notifications, so will get an email when in stock though.Well, ETA is exactly that, an estimated time of arrival. ETA's chchange, not guaranteed dates and also no mention of how many are coming in. Yeah, I see some ETA's here and there.. have done for a while and have also seen them never appear and the dates change. Or sometimes, some do actually arrive and they're gone before you even finish loading the page
I estimate that soon™ all this will be over and everybody wanting one, will have one.
one of them being an Aorus Master 3080
3000 people viewed that in 24 hrs (a lot less than the thousands on some others mind you 44k on the tuf), but its gonna be a hard one to buy when it does come in, but good luck. I'm watching those too (3090 variants) Although.. hopefully in Nov, things will be a little less dire.
Yeah but I am gonna get more anxious and desperate throughout November. Don't wanna play Cyberpunk without it lol. Have a feeling it will run like crap with a 1080 ti at 4k. Need my 60 fps.one of them being an Aorus Master 3080
Although.. hopefully in Nov, things will be a little less dire.
This has me in tears lol
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