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OcUK GUIDE TO ORDERING YOUR AMD 9070 GRAPHICS CARD TODAY AT 14:00

Gibbo

Gibbo

Gibbo

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Hi there


So first of all let me wish you good luck for today.
Due to immense traffic to our website over last 24hrs due to a Borg Armada reference and sighting of a very large solid cube made from Sapphire 9070 XT Pulse cards our website traffic has gone absolutely bonkers.



Anti BOT/Script Measures in place:
As such we are also trialling some new measures to help keep the website alive and also stop BOTS/Scripts from placing an order, in short to make it clear:
  • 1pc per customer
  • UK & Ireland ONLY customers ONLY
  • Website will start blocking known BOT locations, so were only getting genuine UK traffic
  • A new queuing system is been implemented so when customers are on the website it remains responsive for a smoother checkout experience
  • Various other traffic calming and anti BOT measures are in place




MSRP SKU's AVAILABLE:
We will have several MSRP SKU's and to give everyone a chance to get an MSRP card I shall release them in batches, the MSRP cards we will have are:
  • Sapphire Pulse 9070 at £524.99
  • Sapphire Pulse 9070 XT at £569.99
  • Powercolor Reaper 9070 at £524.99
  • Powercolor Reaper 9070 XT at £569.99
  • Gigabyte Gaming 9070 at £524.99
  • Gigabyte Gaming 9070 XT at £569.99
  • Asrock Steel Legend 9070 XT at £569.99





Ordering Advice for quickest checkout process:
  • Be signed into your account or have your details ready to copy and paste in
  • Pay using a debit/credit card
  • DO NOT use Amazon, Paypal or finance
  • DO NOT order anything else with your order, just the GPU
  • Select DPD Next Day shipping
  • Forum Member FREE delivery is DPD for today
  • Download the DPD App, updating your preferences and information
  • Join the forums and/or Discord channel for stock updates and information
  • Do not reach out to customer service for more information, unless you have critical amends needed for your order
  • If the product is showing ‘Out of Stock’, sign up for stock notifications via the product page and periodically check back as it will return as a ‘pre-order’ shortly





SUMMARY:

All products shall go live available for order around 14:00 today, so do be checking the website around that time, as I do each product manually they won't all appear at once.
If your choosen SKU sells out at MSRP, remember some will be released in batches to try and give everybody a chance, see above.

We have every SKU in ample stock, except for the extremely desirable Sapphire Nitro 9070 XT which you can pre-order today at £699, are stock is been air freighted and is due to arrive with OcUK early next week, we have several hundred units incoming so pre-order in confidence. :)

For those wanting an OC SKU, we have largest stock piles of Asrock Taichi and Steel Legend, Powercolor Devil and HellHound.

I wish you the best of luck and here is another picture of the Sapphire Borg Solid Cube our marketing department spent hours building. :


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Also please do be patient, we have nearly 5000 cards in stock and will potentially sell 2000-3000 units today, of course our warehouse is prepared, extra staffing, more hours but I want to be honest and realistic we won't be able to ship everyones order out today, but we will do our best to ensure they are all shipped over the next day or two, so please be patient, your new card will be on its way in no time. :)
 
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Awahwah said:
Guess they weren't that bothered?
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In fairness to them, they do not have a base level card on the XT, there is no Challenger SKU yet, as such they are giving funds to bring a much higher spec (more expensive cooler) down to MSRP, so it has cost them more per card to do so. Still I was pushing for 50 units.
 
Murphy said:
On the don't order anything else, just the GPU thing is that a; if the other things are not in stock it may cause issues/delays, or if you order other things it causes issues/delays regardless of stock of the other things?

I'm asking because of what i assume are the extra costs incurred by OCUK of sending two packages when using the free delivery option for forum members.
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This, yes it cost us more but last thing we want is your order not to ship, so please just order the GPU, also means you will check out faster potentially.
 
DereksDontRun said:
amazing post/info Gibbo - real credit to your customer-service.

"Sapphire Pulse 9070 XT at £569.99 - 300 units available and shall be released in batches of 100 at a time throughout the day "

Does this mean that a 2pm 100 cards at MSRP will be available and then that's it until the next batch of 100? or does it mean that after 100 sales the price will jump ~£50 to continue sales and dip back to MSRP later? If it's the latter then it almost makes sense to wait before trying to buy and let non forum users grab them at the higher price?
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Prices will only jump once all MSRP is sold!

So if goes to plan 100 units at 14:00, 100 at 15:00ish and 100 more at 17:00ish etc
 
5ubsonic said:
Any more Powercolor Reapers to come or is that it now?
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I believe so, but due to how quick the drops sell I have decided to leave it now until this evening, I shall log in from home if systems are working and sell a few, otherwise tomorrow.

It seems in short if you have to authorise payment or do a security check, it slows down the process and they sell out.
 
Hi there

Yes there shall be another drop tonight of MSRP XT cards.

This will be last drop and I’m waiting until later tonight to do it as site traffic will be lower.

I’m not saying when just yet as some plobker will no doubt post it somewhere giving the game away.
 
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