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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - (PRE)ORDER DISCUSSION **NO COMPETITOR HINTING**

TheZombieMaster said:
I'll probably have to cite a credible source of web archiving where those terms weren't laid out when I bought mine. It looks like they updated their pre-order page with that caveat of price going up and couging up the difference.
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Yes. I have to agree with that. Those T&Cs were not made obvious prior to, or at, point of sale. They only became obvious after the pre-order purchase was made. Very obvious after taking our money. Makes me think there may have been a lack of up front and clear info with the T&Cs prior to checkout. It may have been there but they certainly didn't point it out so clearly during purchase as they did post purchase. Like you though, if they do try and charge more just prior to dispatch I'll certainly be doing a bit of investigation on when and how these T&Cs were introduced.
On the other hand, if the purchase price is honoured then all's good.
 
harmattan said:
I have screencaps of the original terms, and a lot of people (myself included) have the original order confirmation -- both were updated a few days later.
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Good on you for having the savvy to screenshot them. Fancy sending me a copy, via DM, if you are willing please? I'm not sure OCUK would take kindly to posting an image of them on the forum here.
 
TheZombieMaster said:
I'll probably have to cite a credible source of web archiving where those terms weren't laid out when I bought mine. It looks like they updated their pre-order page with that caveat of price going up and couging up the difference.
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It's a gamble, they were assuming the prices of these cards and limited supply means that the chance of the card going down are low, where as the chance of the card going up are much higher. Obviously in practice, considering there's rumours of a supply shock incoming due to lower than expected demand of AI chips, coupled with a stronger GBP, there's now a good chance that the price is indeed lower in the next few months. This is there way of squeezing out of it, by retroactively adding in terms after the deal is done and you've paid the entire full amount up front incurring that opportunity cost.
 
Baldbloke said:
Yes. I have to agree with that. Those T&Cs were not made obvious prior to, or at, point of sale. They only became obvious after the pre-order purchase was made. Very obvious after taking our money. Makes me think there may have been a lack of up front and clear info with the T&Cs prior to checkout. It may have been there but they certainly didn't point it out so clearly during purchase as they did post purchase. Like you though, if they do try and charge more just prior to dispatch I'll certainly be doing a bit of investigation on when and how these T&Cs were introduced.
On the other hand, if the purchase price is honoured then all's good.
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I honestly reckon, you'd have a good legal case if they do decide to attempt to charge you more, but obviously whether that'd be worth it for the £100-200 increase or so they expect it to be, probably not.
 
Rogueywon said:
Spoke with customer service at The Other Place and got a flat denial that pre-build orders skip the queue. Hmmm.... what to believe?
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I can tell you that they are not saying lies about it :( I was 2nd in my build and 68 in the Astral and I still do not have my build... If there are no more delays I should have my computer on the 14th of March
 
I had huge issues on the 5900x launch. I bought within a couple seconds of launch and booked next day delivery. It ended up being months.

They were churning out prebuilds despite the processor only que not moving.

At that time I was told they had stock assigned for sale and stock that was assigned for builds.


Not sure i believed them at the time.
 
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Raelgun said:
Anyone saw Asus advert which has this;

Be an #ROGEliteRewards member, and you'll have a chance to win access to purchase a GeForce RTX 5090 or 5080!

they have a raffle where you win a chance at BUYING a card LOL.

@asus, your company is whack.
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Lol yeh I saw one of the youtubers sigh at this too... giving us a chance to buy something from them. what an utter joke this launch is
 
ukmets said:
If prices are the same would you choose a 5080 Fe or palit and why?
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I would get either assuming both msrp - unless have space considerations. Shame they didn't use the 5090 FE cooler on the 5080 FE as it would have had great performance at that wattage...
 
Raelgun said:
Anyone saw Asus advert which has this;

Be an #ROGEliteRewards member, and you'll have a chance to win access to purchase a GeForce RTX 5090 or 5080!

they have a raffle where you win a chance at BUYING a card LOL.

@asus, your company is whack.
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Horayyy, Win a chance to be able to spend money with them...hmm no. :cry:

Did their marketing team honestly think this would go down well? ...as a customer all this would do is make me look to their competition instead! (if i was looking for a 5000 series card) lol.
 
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