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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti to be "available" on June 3rd, RTX 3070Ti on June 10th
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no, we said that earlier
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Sucks for those that just want it for their shiny gaming rig but you can't weed out bots in anything, even crypto ugh!
cant say fairer than that
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I booked this afternoon off work in the hope of upgrading my (venerable) GTX 1070, gave up, having a nice cup of tea instead. RIP PC gaming.
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Sorry, just too many messages to read through everywhere.
Do you guys have an ETA or just holding all stock for weeks?
They mentioned this on a video I watched yesterday. Apparently AMD drop stock on Nvidia launch days on purpose. Happens a lot, I wasnt aware.
I noticed there were a lot of AMD cards in stock this morning.
They won't tell you because they don't know what they are going to do yet and how they plan on doing it. This whole thread is full of statements from them stating the impossible situation they are in. The are not looking for suggestions from outside currently and when they do launch it will be somewhere where someone with your post count won't even hear about it let alone have the chance to buy one. Whole thing is a mess.
or even better message those in a certain thread and give them option to buy, say 30 min window, its no guarantee that cards wont end up on the bay but stops bots
Same. I'm starting to add up the cost of my time now. A few more afternoons of this rubbish and I may as well just pony up the extra cash and buy one from a scalper and be done with it. Like I said, life is too short, I value my time too much so if I have to pay extra cash to be done with all this crap then so be it, such is life and all that.
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Arg i give up, plugging work back into the monitor, down to the trusty phone in case a drop dormes occur
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Managed an EVGA notify, product came back after a disappearance.
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Don't buy from some pajeet, prices are going to tank later this year anyway bro
What people do with the cards after buying (scalping)- I don't see how to avoid that. Maybe keep the box back to make it harder to pass the card off as unused.
Wrt bots - if they "win" by being quickest then some kind of random draw - so have a window (newegg shuffle?) of time to allow people to request buy and then select the winners randomly. Take a micro payment from the card to try and prevent the same person using multiple payment methods to get multiple changes.
Or... MM which sadly means long term customers who are not prolific posters have no chance
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Yeah this is getting really really old now ive been going since 30 mins before official launch and still nothing for me lmao
People probably said the same about the 3080 but they are still way overpriced. Also I saw some 1080ti's on eBay for £600 the other day so I don't think just waiting is the answer.
that's all up to Gibbo and what tools we manage to pull together to allow us to get them into the hands of gamers. The most likely outcome at this point is that we offer them to those in the 3080 queues first but there's technical blockers to overcome on that front.
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No foolproof way short of requiring physical pickup from a store they don't even have any more. Wouldn't have been too horrible with it being in the more northerly half of the West Mids, but still a hell of a hike for anyone from Scotland or the less motorway-rich parts of the nation (ie the south west).
In hindsight I wish I had paid scalper prices back at the end of 2020. They are looking very reasonable now.
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What people do with the cards after buying (scalping)- I don't see how to avoid that. Maybe keep the box back to make it harder to pass the card off as unused.
Wrt bots - if they "win" by being quickest then some kind of random draw - so have a window (newegg shuffle?) of time to allow people to request buy and then select the winners randomly. Take a micro payment from the card to try and prevent the same person using multiple payment methods to get multiple changes.
Or... MM which sadly means long term customers who are not prolific posters have no chance
Stop suggesting how to fix this - they are getting fed up with it. The only way to fix it is to wait it out and be patient.