There has to be a better way to order a new GPU but how?

[BagelB]

Or Overclockers could use all this mad profit and invest in better servers

 

[robj20]

Or Overclockers could use all this mad profit and invest in better servers

Why would they, What's in it for them, they won't actually care who buys what.

 

[233]

oh this is new we've moved on from 504 gateway error to just we'll be back shortly

 

[TeenaegdLime3]

If it was in your cart but you couldnt complete the checkout process and are now stuck in the 21 minute cloudflare queue is the 9070xt reserved?

 

[Thekwango]

Any other ideas?

shop elsewhere. until it hits ocuk in the pocket they'll just keep up this charade that they can cope each gpu release when they clearly can't

 

[Thekwango]

If it was in your cart but you couldnt complete the checkout process and are now stuck in the 21 minute cloudflare queue is the 9070xt reserved?

nope. that card is almost certainly gone now.

 

[Bonse]

age restriction? some of us have forum accounts that are old enough to drink let alone the people behind them lol

i meant age on the account, not the person lol.

 

[BagelB]

Guys calm down, Ocuk only have a single Raspberry pi as a server, very small indie company

 

[Killer7xx]

Guys calm down, Ocuk only have a single Raspberry pi as a server, very small indie company

That'd be far too expensive for them, it's most likely a pentium 3 from 1999. Overclocked obviously to give that extra bit of juice.

 

[Moments420]

Every year when I order an iphone its utterly seamless. Its about as seamless as you can get for ordering electronics online these days anyway.

Product announced, you get to enter pre-payment information and your spec. The price is set, you either take it or leave it.

On the day of pre-order you click order and get instant confirmation and expected ship date.

You then simply get on with life until it arrives (usually a few days earlier than they say).

 

[varkanoid]

No offence OP but another thread about - there should be a better way to order a gpu - as predictable as a lack of availability. Happens every GPU launch. Its the new norm same high GPU prices is the norm. It just has to be accepted. Its nothing new. Same as people wondering if my order will go through same as asking when will my order arrive.

Its a niche market compared to others, eg iPhone.

 

[Rawr]

I think this is an ineivtability when you have a strict launch time everyone knows. The only way it'd get solved is either having enough gpu launches with plenty of stock so people aren't feeling forced to buy at minute 1 due to stock shortage fears, or having a better way of pre-ordering that cuts away the bots/scalpers like tying it to nvidia/amd/forum accounts or whatever.

 

[Stumble Bum]

Second release in a few weeks that has crashed the site and people left with little hope of getting what they want. Maybe a pre registration on the forums for established users would stop the crashes or at least give those loyal customers a better chance? OCUK has all the info so shouldn't be that difficult to do ?

Any other ideas?

Best suggestion is to take your custom to a different retailer that is actually competent. At least when they sell out if you still need one OCUK's website will eventually be up about 3 hours later and you might get lucky.

 

[5ubsonic]

Best suggestion is to take your custom to a different retailer that is actually competent. At least when they sell out if you still need one OCUK's website will eventually be up about 3 hours later and you might get lucky.

I did look at one of the other retailers who I know reserve the item for you for something like 15 minutes as soon as you add it to your cart, but even at 2pm they were trying to sell a £569 card for £799. They still seem to have them in stock so maybe they've tried to be too greedy.

 

[Badger1970]

How about for people who are registered on OC to specify what card you want and then enter a lottery. You then get sent an email sent to you saying whether you've been successful or not that would stop the website crashing. I got to the shopping cart and it was in an never ending loop. Just going to wait it out now - i've been with my 2070s this long so a few more weeks wont hurt.

 

[aaronyuri]

Wait till after launch.

Live you life a few months behind everyone else. I think Life is easier (and less expensive) that way.

This is true wisdom. Buying on day 1 is always an expensive disaster and has been for years. Yet people keep trying to do it and get frustrated.

 

[Manbatius]

Members market.

 

[AWardy]

Yeah that was frustrating, card in the basket trying to checkout at 13:58 times out and goes out of stock

 

[Combat squirrel]

Easiest way would be a forum section only open to those with 25+ members market sales or say, 10 years access or something, then have an unlisted secret store page to purchase via that link only found in there.

Require the hidden shop section to verify your username on the forum, then long standing forum members can purchase cards before the live main page, scalpers wont put in years of forum access or many members market sales just to access that.

 

[Freddie1980]

It depends on what's driving the traffic, if it's bots buying up everything then setting the retail price at something crazy and posting a discount code in the forum would slow bot buyers down for a while.

If it's just all us nerds suffering from industrial bouts of FOMO then restrict sales to forum members with 1000+ posts for the first couple of hours then open it up for general sale.