Do you not realise that you obtained one out of sheer luck and hundreds won't have managed to snag one?
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RYZEN 5000 SERIES NOW ONLINE - 5950X, 5900X, 5800X & 5600X COMING NOV 5TH AT 5PM **NO COMPETITORS**
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Do you not realise that you obtained one out of sheer luck and hundreds won't have managed to snag one?
Pre-order, or play roulette by racing to a website everytime your phone pings (Usually when you're sat on the bog nowhere near your card.) in a mostly vain attempt to beat the bots scanning every website. The same bots that ping your phone are the same ones used to automatically order instantly.
Your choice, one is not necessarily better than the other and all down to sheer luck the time to takes to get what you want. I managed to snag a series X and S for the kid using notification apps and the rest of my PC stuff is on pre-order. Pre-ordering is far less stressful then having to respond to dozens of fruitless pings in a day.
Having been under 100 in the queue for a 5800x since launch date, from what I can tell, other than some other retailers who are selling stock as they get them - so keeping an eye out and grabbing fast, most other retailers who are doing an OCUK style back order dont seem to have had many either, so I'm fine waiting, but.......
It's nearly a calendar month now since I put my order in, I was there at 1.55pm but due to the website crashing I couldn't have been any quicker. Therefore I did my part as best I could with my faith in OCUK, I just hope they now do their bit, because if other competitors start shipping hundreds of units out and I'm sitting here waiting for OCUK, I will be disappointed.
It's nearly a calendar month now since I put my order in, I was there at 1.55pm but due to the website crashing I couldn't have been any quicker. Therefore I did my part as best I could with my faith in OCUK, I just hope they now do their bit, because if other competitors start shipping hundreds of units out and I'm sitting here waiting for OCUK, I will be disappointed.
I canceled my ASUS 3090 from here and got a 3090 OC the next day from a online shop in the EU
It seams that ocuk have problems with stock.
I canceled my ASUS 3090 from here and got a 3090 OC the next day from a online shop in the EU
It seams that ocuk have problems with stock.
It's the whole of the UK that has problem with stock... Europe seems to have little issues. For example I keep getting stock pings for Xbox's and PS5's which are actually mainland europe. But not everyone wants to use their tech with EU plugs!
Obviously it's no difference if your GPU is from europe other than I assume different consumer protection laws...
I don't know the ins and outs but would you be able to return the 3090 if it was faulty? Certainly not as easily as from a UK supplier I bet.
Cheers I'll take a look.
I guess all the middle-man suppliers are scalping, looking at the prices Gibbo says they pay per unit. It seems odd that in the mess of all this they're all still going up on sale at a more reasonable price. I managed to buy a 5900X for £560 today, I'm a bit miffed it's £50 over MSRP, but I want it now!
Benjii - where did you score - online retail stone? in the uk? on a reseller site like ebay?
From a UK retail site. Seems even AMD themselves are no longer selling them at £510, I guess £560 is the new price.
AMD's site still has their price listed as £494.30 (+ postage). They never sold them at £510. Our favourite cuisine sells them for £510 still. I can't imagine the official MSRP is going to increase, it'd price them uncompetitively against Intel.
Oh, that's interesting. I wouldn't put much faith in the site at £510, they will keep prices at MSRP or even under cut it while they have no stock, then the price increases when stock appears. I don't know for definite they're doing it with Zen 3, but I've seen them do it with a bunch of other products.
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When they listed the 5950x earlier this week, it was listed at £750. They did not increase the price when they received stock.
Same here, except I'm in queue position 235. Had major website issues on launch day, went for lunch with my phone, still couldn't get one bought and came back and ordered. Annoyed at the backlog, am considering cancelling and switching to Scan but will probably hang in there. If there's no progress in the next few weeks I will be very frustrated.
That is only if you have a direct link to it though right as otherwise it just shows out of stock and can't actually get to the page.
Edit: Ah you can get to it with a little selection. Just the GPU's that are totally hidden