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

DavieJG said:
Surely that's not allowed under some retailer practices law somewhere?
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Nope, retail fraud. SFO and taxman would come calling.

But I'm pretty sure that's not what's happening here. There's simply a lot of pent up demand with FOMO spastics.
 
Clarence Boddicker said:
Does anybody remember any mainstream electronics retailers jacking up the prices just because theres a supply shortage? I dont remember it happening when there was a shortage of series x’s. It just absolute scumbag behaviour, no better than actual scalpers.
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Been going on since pandemic, but never at this scale or as endemic.
 
Clarence Boddicker said:
Does anybody remember any mainstream electronics retailers jacking up the prices just because theres a supply shortage? I dont remember it happening when there was a shortage of series x’s. It just absolute scumbag behaviour, no better than actual scalpers.
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It's disgusting, live dynamic pricing to squeeze every penny out of us.

I took a screenshot of one of the 5080s on OCUK and the price changed both before and after I created the post, literally within seconds.

It's new to me, I never paid much attention to previous GPU launches, so I've been paticularly cheesed off with it. We can't discuss competitors but there's no way I would shop at any store that's been scalping cards, including OCUK. Not even for a USB cable, they can **** right off :cry:
 
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SuperElectric said:
It's disgusting, live dynamic pricing to squeeze every penny out of us.

I took a screenshot of one of the 5080s on OCUK and the price changed both before and after I created the post, literally within seconds.

It's new to me, I never paid much attention to previous GPU launches, so I've been paticularly cheesed off with it. We can't discuss competitors but there's no way I would shop at any store that's been scalping cards, including OCUK. Not even for a USB cable, they can **** right off :cry:
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Their price is higher than others. For a custom 5090 gaming pc it was £800 more for the exact same.

They’re acting very unprofessional!
 
From The Competitor With The Queue System:

We are in communication with Nvidia and board partners regarding ROPS on 50 series cards. Any affected cards already received by customers can be returned for an exchange. We are working with all parties to ensure that returned cards have a separate queue to minimise delay. New shipments are being checked by our partners before they are shipped to REDACTED.
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Fairy nuff, I guess.
 
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In some, uh, good (? - relatively so! :o ) news, HUB seemed to think the Gigabyte Aorus card was good. More so than the Suprim.


Sorry if that’s a repost.
 
Update: My pre-order queue for the el cheapo ZOTAC 5090 SOLID went down from 366 to 345 (with another supplier that shall not be named). The pre-order price at the time I placed it was £2099
I placed my order on 31st Jan and the initial queue position was 435
 
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TheZombieMaster said:
Update: My pre-order queue for the el cheapo ZOTAC 5090 SOLID went down from 366 to 345 (with another supplier that shall not be named). The pre-order price at the time I placed it was £2099
I placed my order on 31st Jan and the initial queue position was 435
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One of those is thanks to me dropping out haha
 
TheZombieMaster said:
Lol how has your 5080 been? I'm thinking of cancelling too.. I'm 50/50 atm :o
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I'm really happy with it. An overclock has got me as near as dammit to stock 4090 performance, I'm on Ultrawide so the VRAM isn't such a concern and the fans are quiet, especially with the power use around 300w. I've been loving the path tracing in Indiana Jones.
 
TheZombieMaster said:
Update: My pre-order queue for the el cheapo ZOTAC 5090 SOLID went down from 366 to 345 (with another supplier that shall not be named). The pre-order price at the time I placed it was £2099
I placed my order on 31st Jan and the initial queue position was 435
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It would be a nice round 20 minus the person who cancelled above but I've been queue number 4 since the beginning and it still says I am 4th on live tracking with the date 2025-05-30. Would be strange if the live order tracking doesn't update for everyone at the same time. They also didn't mention any Zotacs dropping in their update today but maybe they got them after the 5:30pm update. Would be strange if 20 people cancelled all at once on one day too though. Guess I have the smallest glimmer of hope tomorrow then.
 
How are there suddenly so many people who can afford over £3k on a GPU??

I feel like if a £3k+ gaming GPU was on shelves a few years ago , before the mining 3xxx series stuff, they wouldn't have sold many at all .

That's an immense amount of money just so you can turn some ray tracing on in games.
 
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