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You'd have to make it clearer than I have, but you get the idea:
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti to be "available" on June 3rd, RTX 3070Ti on June 10th
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I like it.You'd have to make it clearer than I have, but you get the idea:
Hang on, couldn't this be done even simpler by setting up a random page somewhere that does not resemble the rest of the website (literally a text stating the GPU name with a buy button next to it), then just posting the link on the forums somewhere where only people with x-amount of forum posts can see it. Just completely neglect the usual pages where these GPUs are.
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Yeh it depends how nice you wanna be to people not reading the forums. Keeping the initial page the same gives non-forum members a shot too as they'd be unaware of the secret link and are probably camping out on the listing pages.
Well like I said before, as soon as you start trying to whittle down the people who are deemed 'eligable' you automatically have to exclude other people, sadly that's just how it works. You can't have one without the other.
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Hahaha, I miss the days of having so much spare time in work! But I'm sure that's right, hob nobs can soak a good amount of tea before the inevitable crumble. They're almost like corkboard!
Same here, those days are long gone but we had some fun, and yeah those Hob Nobs are well built.
I think all the bots do these days is alert. So many discord/telegram/twitter ones out there.
The actual buying is people. 1000s of people.
And the issue is without some form of alerts or notification, how will people know they are live?
I guess they can make a post here?
The actual buying is people. 1000s of people.
And the issue is without some form of alerts or notification, how will people know they are live?
I guess they can make a post here?
From what I can see the bots actually do the buying as well.
Yah, they can be stopped. They are annoying.
They have become self aware!
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I like that idea. I'll be on a PC so fairly straight forward, but that's going to suck for people on mobile phonesYou'd have to make it clearer than I have, but you get the idea:
An OcUK competitor has a system where there is no Buy button, but the item description includes an email address to contact with your account name and phone number.
They ring you on a 1st come 1st served basis when the stock becomes available.
I used it to buy an Xbox Series X from them.
They ring you on a 1st come 1st served basis when the stock becomes available.
I used it to buy an Xbox Series X from them.
You guys are in an impossible situation, I think it's good that you haven't put your 3080ti stock up to just have it taken almost entirely by bots.
MM codes at the very least increases the number of people with established trust purchasing cards (yes there will unfortunately be scalpers amoungst them, that's just math), and TBH will make not managing to get one feel that bad, since you were beaten by hundreds of real MM users vs. the hundreds of thousands of bots.
IRL/Phone ordering is just a non-starter, for the exact reasons you mentioned. Tempers are pretty high atm, most of us I imagine are following all the stock bots and at this point I've been trying to get any card for well over 6 months now to replace my 980 from 2014 lol!
Only other way would be some kind of bot disrupt, injecting a 2FA service when trying to buy (texting a code, or needing to add a GAuth to our accounts to add to card etc) but TBH, retail botting makes hundreds of millions a year for their masters, whatever silly things we can dream up, they're probably already around it.
There's no good solution here, only the least worst.
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Are there any PC parts stores in UK that will have GPUS in stores June 10th? As in physical stores rather than just online orders?
They'll be playing the game next.
Beat the bots, yeah good luck lol
I'm registered with them for an AIB card so hopefully I'll get one.
Nice I need to find out who this is so I can register for a GPU.