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coosto said:
The amount of people dripping on here...

OC increased prices, it’s not new, little thing called supply and demand.

Would wager my mortgage OC are paying more for the cards from their suppliers since the cards are selling as fast as they can be made, supplier will be increasing their prices as they are paying more to get the stock to market.

OC will have a set percentage markup that gets passed onto the customer, don’t like it, wait till prices drop.
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WHAT HE ******* SAID!!! The thing is you can explain this 10 times a day to each person but very few would get it. It's the exact same thing with the AMD CPUs. Preorders were at one price and even OC's taking a bit of a hit cuz they didn't get some shipment on the first price and have to pay a little more but people pre-ordered on the good price.
The 3070 I just got shipped, I payed 540 for, it now sells for 600 on the same link. Difference is I bought it 30 mins after it was available to put in the cart. It seems OC doesn't want to charge more and are one of the better resellers, they are forced to by middleman.
 
joelk2 said:
just want somewhere selling the cards at rrp to be honest. retailers are as bad as the scalpers these days.
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I'll go to ~£550 above that it is getting too close to the 3080 MSRP regardless of what is happening with the 3080s - I'd rather spend a bit over the odds (though I won't on principle) and get a 3080 than save a bit of money but get a 3070 for over the odds.

coosto said:
The amount of people dripping on here...

OC increased prices, it’s not new, little thing called supply and demand.

Would wager my mortgage OC are paying more for the cards from their suppliers since the cards are selling as fast as they can be made, supplier will be increasing their prices as they are paying more to get the stock to market.

OC will have a set percentage markup that gets passed onto the customer, don’t like it, wait till prices drop.
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There is nothing good about unrestricted dynamics of supply and demand. (Especially at this point where it is obvious some of the brands are manipulating it with what has to be artificial availability given how these things work).
 
Rroff said:
There is nothing good about unrestricted dynamics of supply and demand. (Especially at this point where it is obvious some of the brands are manipulating it with what has to be artificial availability given how these things work).
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I agree there isn’t, but bleating on the OC forums isn’t going to change how business is done out in the real world.

I’d wager a lot of those complaining about price mark ups would be same ones who in a hypothetical situation wherein they received a GPU from 2 different suppliers they preordered from would stick the additional card on a reselling site for profit over return to supplier for refund.
 
Well personally I have a need for a Ampere card - doing RTX development stuff at 7-10 FPS on my GTX1070 isn't cutting it but I value not being ripped off so looks like my money is going to sit here awhile.
 
McGraw said:
I started using this forum in 2000 under another name.

Still nowhere near a boomer.

Just count yourself lucky that you're young at a time when graphics cards are as advanced as they are. You could be old like me and had doom as your first 3d game
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Yes, I am lucky at my time that gpus are advanced as they were, but tbh, the best moments was when I was 3 playing on my uncles nitendo 64 segamega drive, ps1, ps2. I honestly don't think anything could beat those days. However I also play games to unstress myself from the NHS and work within it self and when I was at education. Im not the smartest, but I try my best.

Whilst I am young and all, I couldn't care less about the games, but yes its an advantage since I can't really go out with my friends to chill and due to covid, I might aswell just play games in doors.However it does make my job a lot more easier that tech is advanced such as ECGs, obs, machines to help me diagnose patients unlike how it was in the olden days with no tech. Anyways as again, GL to all snagging a 30 series card, I found it hard to purchase it during the launch as I was work full time within a ambulance service and a hospital, but managed to get one and so happy about it going from a 1060 to a 3070, major upgrade!!!!
 
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My laptop is on its deathbed so I'm eagerly waiting in the ASUS 3070 TUF non-oc queue for my pc build. Getting anxious as nvidia site doesn't even list the asus tuf. OC versions are getting shipping slowly but how does MSI - who had a fire in their factory in china still manage to ship (I'm constantly seeing stock alerts for MSI) but not much of a peep from asus :confused: if anyone is in the asus tuf 3070 non-oc queue, let me know if you've moved at all?
 
Digital X said:
Have since cancelled that 3070 order, I did manage to place an order a 3080 and will be here on the 20th :)
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OMG IS THAT DIGITAL X from epic duel when we used to play together back in the days with mokta 3, nice to bump into you LMAO. my name was Sir Hulk back then, shame most of us retired :(. ;D
 
Digital X said:
Haha no way! Yes its me. Been a while!

@Venommm What card have you ordered?
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So I did want the 3080 initially but was working that day and couldn't take time off my job to get the card. Same thing with the 3070 but I managed to find it from a competitor that was gna deliver the card next day which was a 3070 strix at 550 quid. I'll show you my setup on discord , pretty sure ur in that AE server, ill just dm you there xd. I dont mind having the card tho, cause planning to get a 3080ti next year and give my 3070 to my brother.

Happy days :D small world we live in
 
I can’t see this progressing far into 2021.

First off the blame for the mess lies with Nvidia, not the 3rd party manufacturers or merchants.

Releasing a product when you’ve not got production dialled is dumb, they know they will get the sales so hold off release till you and partners have units ready to ship out to absorb most of the surge.

Blind man on galloping horse can see why they’ve released before they were anywhere near ready, their spies have reported that AMD are a credible threat to sales and their new soon to be announced line will potentially take away interest in their product so they need to be first out the gate.

They “release” a product, merchants get preorders which will pad the sales stats and calm their investors, all they are bothered about, being number 1.

Honestly think AMD will suffer similar issues and will struggle to get their GPUs out to market.

Back to price hike, a lot of companies like OC have took a lot of preorders and with cancellations depending on how well the merchants have forecasted sales I can see there eventually being a surplus which they’ll need to shift.
 
coosto said:
Back to price hike, a lot of companies like OC have took a lot of preorders and with cancellations depending on how well the merchants have forecasted sales I can see there eventually being a surplus which they’ll need to shift.
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If I was OcUK I would be looking at limiting the damage of disgruntled customers that got burned or threw out the toys over the stock debacle. There will always be complainers in any retail business, but there will have been some loyal buyers having enough and may never come back.
 
The FE is the bait and the AIB cards are the trap, Nvidia provided temporary rebates to them to keep the price around MSRP around launch, knowing full well the FE would sell out would then force people towards AIB models, Nvidia sets the component cost with them, AIB's get the blame for passing this on to the consumer.
 
coosto said:
The amount of people dripping on here...

OC increased prices, it’s not new, little thing called supply and demand.

Would wager my mortgage OC are paying more for the cards from their suppliers since the cards are selling as fast as they can be made, supplier will be increasing their prices as they are paying more to get the stock to market.

OC will have a set percentage markup that gets passed onto the customer, don’t like it, wait till prices drop.
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Don't be so naive, OCUK etc regularly use any excuse/pretext to gouge customers. People who have been on this forum for a long time have seen the OCUK excuse playbook many times "Supply and demand" is just another catch-all excuse to justify gouging, the whole Ampwhere launch from start to finish was a planned gouge/cash grab for a vapourware product, where NV and retailers worked hand in glove to gouge customers (up front I might add) for nothing more than a place in a queue, without even the slightest idea of when they could fulfill their side of the bargain...they knew most consumers are epic mugs and are only too happy to have their pants pullled down, so NV/retailers bent them over without even the courtesy of lube.

PS You're not smart talking about "Supply and demand" as if it's a concept only you are aware of...
 
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