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

RCM said:
I clicked the notification as soon as it popped up this morning, but it had already gone. Getting notified a minute earlier may have made the difference, who knows?
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I'm suprised I got one given that I used the free version.

Maybe they're processing push notifications sequentially or in batches, if so there's probably a bit of a delay between the first user or batch of users their database says needs to be notified versus the last.

Maybe sign up again with an email address beginning with the letter "a" just in case they're pulling the results out sorted alphabetically; although I think that's unlikely.
 
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Astral 5090 LC finally showing up! £3,400 is a bit much considering the Suprim Liquid went for £2,700 a few weeks ago and will probably still be under £3k when it it comes back.
 
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Astral 5080s are now £110 cheaper on OC than afew days ago. Obv loads of supply coming through and making sure they keep selling. And with cheaper 5090s need to widen the gap.
 
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SHADOWSNEAX said:
Yep, all 3 retailers charging £2499 and above are shameful.
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I don’t necessarily disagree but if you ran a business and could sell something out almost instantly at a much higher margin than you normally would, then you’d be a fool not to!

Obviously demand is fairly high but there’s not a huge proportion of gamers overall in the market for a 2 and a half grand GPU. For me the problem is more nvidia / board partners and the trickling of stock. I don’t personally blame the retailers for taking advantage of it too much. But I work in Pricing so perhaps I’m biased :D
 
Rusty0611 said:
I don’t necessarily disagree but if you ran a business and could sell something out almost instantly at a much higher margin than you normally would, then you’d be a fool not to!

Obviously demand is fairly high but there’s not a huge proportion of gamers overall in the market for a 2 and a half grand GPU. For me the problem is more nvidia / board partners and the trickling of stock. I don’t personally blame the retailers for taking advantage of it too much. But I work in Pricing so perhaps I’m biased :D
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Yes you're definitely somewhat biased. Obviously from a business perspective, yeah great, people are willing to pay more, more profits, lovely. Obviously for consumers, I think it's awful. Supply has been by far the biggest issue though of course, it happens due to a lack of supply, so the problem starts at the top. Thing that's worse IMO, we already have to deal with people with bots snatching them to sell on auction sites etc, so then also having to compete with them whilst also dealing with retailers also effectively "scalping", just kinda sucks for the majority of us at that point. Hopefully more and more large shipments keep hitting, nice to see some retailers sticking to original pricing
 
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gotenson5 said:
Just talked to my ahem....contact (who's not really a contact but i asume is put on my case due to my many messages) popped into my live chat to say that suprims are due today and she will let me know more today
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Today was my original ETA… I’ve dropped about 6 queue places because of dropouts… slim Jim chance of getting a card for me… maybe! Currently 36th.
 
Messaged the queue place for the first time since I ordered, for my Aorus Master. Told no info on ETAs and they basically have no idea when more info will be provided. Felt so smug when I got my order in and was only position 16 in the queue, less so now :D.

Currently rocking and rolling at position 12. No good option really other than waiting as £2.5k was the upper limit of what I wanted to pay but after that conversation, if I get a chance to checkout at a drop elsewhere (unlikely) for a bit more I think I’ll likely pull the trigger and move on with my life.

So if any folks are in the queue for the same card and much higher than me, then not looking good fellas.
 
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