There are not many UK websites selling 3080ti's so a quick search through them and a quick read of the GPUs descriptions should be enough to find them. Maybe do a quick search first for a list of UK stockists so you know where to head.
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti to be "available" on June 3rd, RTX 3070Ti on June 10th
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Another local store to me did something similiar, they wouldn't let people order online and you'd have to send them an email or phone them and provide your information like name, number, address, copy of drivers license etc and what card you want - they then will call you when they have a card for you, this ensures bots can't place orders and those who were legit buyers could be restricted to 1 card per person and payment method
Hmm not been able to find just yet, but will look again later
Sounds like a good way to do it
Yeah, that's why I have some small hope that I might actually get one from that retailer.
Maybe a simple sticky post in the graphics card forum asking people to stick their names down if they are interested in a 3080ti and have a certain post count (to ward off chancers), list the names in order on the OP and use that as a queue that everyone can see, then just call each person in turn to make the sale, cross their name off and everyone bumps up a position. You could even have the sticky open for a few days or a week to collect names then randomise the order they go in the queue so as to make it completely fair. Yes you may end up in position 400 but at least you'll know where you are and with some feedback about incoming stock levels you'll know if you actually have a chance of getting one at some point.
The only admin would be collecting names and ordering them on the top post and then calling people at your leisure, you are then completely in charge of the pace that things happen, and the forum members can all see where they are in the queue so can judge for themselves when they are likely to get a phone call.
The only admin would be collecting names and ordering them on the top post and then calling people at your leisure, you are then completely in charge of the pace that things happen, and the forum members can all see where they are in the queue so can judge for themselves when they are likely to get a phone call.
Just make it so only people who've been a customer for 3+ years can order the cards. Eg. "If 'flagged product' & 'account >3 years' ---> Process order. Else, 'display error message'".
Yes you'll get some scalpers but if it stops pretty much all of the bots (seeing as most of them will be around a year old at most) then its still way better. This would be much fairer than forum members with >1000 posts only, who lets be honest if they wanted to scalp, the threat of losing their forum account may be worth £1000+ profit. Not to mention that if they just waited a little while and stuck it on ebay, how would they be caught? How would you know they bought it from OC? They get around that easily, unless I'm missing something.
Then you can also do something similar to other retailers where you limit the purchases of the flagged products to 1 every 8 months or something like that per account.
The only benefit I can see to selling via MM is because its easier than doing a bit of programming. But there is the downside that long term loyal customers who didn't post on the forum get shut out.
Yes you'll get some scalpers but if it stops pretty much all of the bots (seeing as most of them will be around a year old at most) then its still way better. This would be much fairer than forum members with >1000 posts only, who lets be honest if they wanted to scalp, the threat of losing their forum account may be worth £1000+ profit. Not to mention that if they just waited a little while and stuck it on ebay, how would they be caught? How would you know they bought it from OC? They get around that easily, unless I'm missing something.
Then you can also do something similar to other retailers where you limit the purchases of the flagged products to 1 every 8 months or something like that per account.
The only benefit I can see to selling via MM is because its easier than doing a bit of programming. But there is the downside that long term loyal customers who didn't post on the forum get shut out.
I like it. To be extra safe, the green banner would be an image and not text. Saves bots from clicking straight through. Bit harder for us to type in but that shows we are humans.You'd have to make it clearer than I have, but you get the idea:
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This is one of the dumber ideas if anything.
Customer A bought 2 fans (£40 worth) 3 years ago and is now eligible to buy the new GPU.
Customer B only joined 5 months ago, bought £100s worth of products in that time but can't buy the new GPU because he's registered less than 3 years ago...
Makes total sense there mate!
Alright then put a minimum amount spent in it as well. Adjust the timescale to when the botting started, maybe its 1+ years.
Either way, you're going to cut genuine customers off whether its MM or this, but the question is, how many? My method is a way of allowing most genuine customers to have access, the MM way blocks off all genuine customers who didn't post 1000 times in the forum. So assuming its feasible to do, its better than that.
Some of us need it is all.
My idea above pretty much does not cut out any forum members, has minimal admin and would be fair randomised.
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Most genuine in your opinion.
Both ways are very much unfair to customers, there's other ways just like mentioned by others.
I need one. But I am not daft enough to spend enough to buy a car on one. The market is currently insane and even at RRP the card is over-priced.
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I must have checked every single UK distributor and can't find what you mean
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Will OCUK physical store have 3070ti on launch for sale?
You need to click on the description of the GPU and in the text there there will be an email address to register interest.
Yes they are unfair but one is less unfair than the other.
If they can use captchas or images with URLs in to stop it then that is of course better, but, there are a couple of problems with it:
1- Captcha doesn't seem to work, at least, a lot of sites tried it but still got a lot of bot orders. I don't know how they get past it but seems they can without much issue.
2- If you use an image with a product page URL in it, then that URL will just be shared instantly and bots will just bypass to it.
What might work better than that is to generate a random and unique voucher code (in an image) instead, and you only get one per account once you've been issued one. You'll have to note down the voucher code and enter it into the checkout to complete the order. This way you can't just share the same URL or code to a bot network so they all get access straight away. Although this isn't really that different to captcha in the end.
Th anti-scalping stuff is discussed here https://www.overclockers.co.uk/foru...cience-for-the-retail-vendors.18929949/page-2
Imo , captchas are only part of the solution as apart from the bots scalpers can set up "amazon turk" like things where people solve captchas (and make orders - potentially) for some fixed wage. The overall solution has to feature bank details blacklist that doesn't let people order more than an allocated amount of a product - e.g. 1 or 2 GPUs. UK bank accounts and posting to billing addresses only would be a good solution. Once the demand is satiated, the measure may be dropped of course.
Imo , captchas are only part of the solution as apart from the bots scalpers can set up "amazon turk" like things where people solve captchas (and make orders - potentially) for some fixed wage. The overall solution has to feature bank details blacklist that doesn't let people order more than an allocated amount of a product - e.g. 1 or 2 GPUs. UK bank accounts and posting to billing addresses only would be a good solution. Once the demand is satiated, the measure may be dropped of course.