VOUCHER CODE DEALS CONCEPT PLAN!

James_H · 26 Mar 2021 at 02:37

Shovinus said:
All orders are cancelled, sorry for getting your hopes up, tried to solve a problem for Scott and ended up making a bigger one with the website. Most orders I have managed to cancel I think before the payment would have even left your banks. For those that did leave they should be back in your back normally within 24 hours, if you are having any issues, please leave a message with us and we will look in to it.
Total orders - 1016 Even with Cloudflare and the bot banning it seems the bots are getting through. As most of this was within 5 minutes of the issue going live.

Thanks for the info. Count me among the "got hopes up" brigade - somehow managed to get an order through half an hour after it all went crazy. Out of sheer morbid curiosity, how did they appear in stock in the first place?

Just realised it sounds like I'm demanding answers, which I'm not. Just interested as a web dev myself what happened as they genuinely were "in stock" as far as the store was concerned.

Shovinus · 26 Mar 2021 at 02:37

eksterVX said:
Thanks for the info,
are all gpus from now on £10k?
Am I as a week old member going to be able to order one gpu for my PC?

I don't know about that side, this was more a technical bug that went wrong. For Gibbos voucher stuff you likely know more than me.

eksterVX · 26 Mar 2021 at 02:46

ASMB said:
I didn't need to use discord as Overclockers gave a heads up one week that they were selling cards at the end of the week, I monitored the shop and forum and got one. If you just wanted one card from OCUK in particular you could have joined their forum earlier and got one.

I don't know where to look on this forum.
This forum looks like 2005 design, back in the days when WOW was popular.
Link me where to look for signals please, so I don't have to rely on discord.

Pixeljack · 26 Mar 2021 at 02:54

eksterVX said:
I don't know where to look on this forum.
This forum looks like 2005 design, back in the days when WOW was popular.
Link me where to look for signals please, so I don't have to rely on discord.

That was the issue I faced too. If another member hadn’t directed me to this thread, I wouldn’t have known a discussion was going on about the bug and posts that the staff had made this evening.

ASMB · 26 Mar 2021 at 02:58

eksterVX said:
I don't know where to look on this forum.
This forum looks like 2005 design, back in the days when WOW was popular.
Link me where to look for signals please, so I don't have to rely on discord.

It would help if you learned english comprehension and also didn't cut out part of my quote, look back in this thread as I kindly advised you. Don't blame me if you decided to ignore that help.

I wrote this
I didn't need to use discord as Overclockers gave a heads up one week that they were selling cards at the end of the week, I monitored the shop and forum and got one. If you just wanted one card from OCUK in particular you could have joined their forum earlier and got one. Read back in this thread as to how you can get a chance at a card in the near future

eksterVX · 26 Mar 2021 at 03:08

ASMB said:
It would help if you learned english comprehension and also didn't cut out part of my quote, look back in this thread as I kindly advised you. Don't blame me if you decided to ignore that help.

I wrote this
I didn't need to use discord as Overclockers gave a heads up one week that they were selling cards at the end of the week, I monitored the shop and forum and got one. If you just wanted one card from OCUK in particular you could have joined their forum earlier and got one. Read back in this thread as to how you can get a chance at a card in the near future

No need to be passive aggressive and no, English isn't my first language.

Thanks but no thanks. Let me just browse through 47 pages of this thread.

There are threads about RTX 30## drops. I was wondering if there is a general thread about drops of both AMD and Nvidia that's why I was asking for a link. (You would know better).

btw why are you still here if you got a gpu?

ASMB · 26 Mar 2021 at 03:20

eksterVX said:
No need to be passive aggressive and no, English isn't my first language.

Thanks but no thanks. Let me just browse through 47 pages of this thread.

There are threads about RTX 30## drops. I was wondering if there is a general thread about drops of both AMD and Nvidia that's why I was asking for a link. (You would know better).

btw why are you still here if you got a gpu?

You are the one who started to be passive aggressive I kindly told you how to get a card without having to use discord and that you could look back in this thread for that info. You decided to reply by cutting some of my quote, and basically saying that you can't be bothered to read though the thread like some of us did.

Please tell me where I said that I had ordered a card yesterday and was complaining, you are the one complaing on both parts.
Please tell me why you are still here complaining and trying to buy a card from OCUK in particular when you say that you already have a card and know a cheaper place to buy cards, from another thread here is your reply to a post, that you have a 6800XT

You wrote,

"I know of at least two retailers that sell at MSRP or little over than that.

At least they don't sell RTX 3070 for £900+ but I can't share it because of competitor rule.
I've got RX 6800XT close to MSRP last week.

I tried ordering RX 6800 from OCUK for same price as I've got RX 6800 XT but order has been cancelled. In my opinion these forum members only deals are becoming messy and unfair for others."

It presents in one quote you need a new card as you only have a 780 and in another you have a 6800xt, which is it?

Purgatory · 26 Mar 2021 at 03:26

ASMB said:
You are the one who started to be passive aggressive I kindly told you how to get a card without having to use discord and that you could look back in this thread for that info. You decided to reply by cutting some of my quote, and basically saying that you can't be bothered to read though the thread like some of us did.

Please tell me where I said that I had ordered a card yesterday and was complaining, you are the one complaing on both parts.
Please tell me why you are still here complaining and trying to buy a card from OCUK in particular when you say that you already have a card and know a cheaper place to buy cards, from another thread here is your reply to a post, that you have a 6800XT

You wrote,

"I know of at least two retailers that sell at MSRP or little over than that.

At least they don't sell RTX 3070 for £900+ but I can't share it because of competitor rule.
I've got RX 6800XT close to MSRP last week.

I tried ordering RX 6800 from OCUK for same price as I've got RX 6800 XT but order has been cancelled. In my opinion these forum members only deals are becoming messy and unfair for others."

Nice catch he edited it on the other thread , which I also spotted him doing a few minutes ago to hide what he said. Ignore him he's just trolling, seems we are getting a lot of them on here recently.

Runering · 26 Mar 2021 at 03:26

ScottiB said:
Thanks for that.
I don't think I needed any more justification for my decision to blanket cancel this evening's orders but I tracked this back to one of those, not an earlier MM code purchase. He's now been banned from future orders.

This right here is what's keeping me going in this frustrating hunt for a new gpu. Any chance owners/admin could set up a new thread to give us updates on how many bots they've banned and scalper orders they've cancelled. Would love to see more of that happening

ASMB · 26 Mar 2021 at 03:28

Nice to see you caught him as well Purgatory thanks

Purgatory · 26 Mar 2021 at 03:36

ASMB said:
Nice to see you caught him as well Purgatory thanks

No problem mate, yes he's not playing nice and I was about to reply to him but he edited the post as I was replying.

Dontrocktheboat · 26 Mar 2021 at 04:49

markthechef said:
You can see the buy button on the pic above but the price is cut out... So the bots just added them to their baskets ? Without prices ?Just make them all 10k .. to mess with them !!! They will soon stop using Ocuk for bot buying if all the cards are at 10k

The way OCUk keep up bumping prices , that actually might happen. Not for the reasons you are describing though.

Simple fact is OCUk website appears not fit for purpose anymore.

Hotwired · 26 Mar 2021 at 05:14

Dontrocktheboat said:
Simple fact is OCUk website appears not fit for purpose anymore.

Dunno about that but every business clings onto things that are wonky because it's too scary to rebuild what that thing does from scratch.

zipp0r · 26 Mar 2021 at 05:26

ASMB said:
You are the one who started to be passive aggressive I kindly told you how to get a card without having to use discord and that you could look back in this thread for that info. You decided to reply by cutting some of my quote, and basically saying that you can't be bothered to read though the thread like some of us did.

Please tell me where I said that I had ordered a card yesterday and was complaining, you are the one complaing on both parts.
Please tell me why you are still here complaining and trying to buy a card from OCUK in particular when you say that you already have a card and know a cheaper place to buy cards, from another thread here is your reply to a post, that you have a 6800XT

You wrote,

"I know of at least two retailers that sell at MSRP or little over than that.

At least they don't sell RTX 3070 for £900+ but I can't share it because of competitor rule.
I've got RX 6800XT close to MSRP last week.

I tried ordering RX 6800 from OCUK for same price as I've got RX 6800 XT but order has been cancelled. In my opinion these forum members only deals are becoming messy and unfair for others."

It presents in one quote you need a new card as you only have a 780 and in another you have a 6800xt, which is it?

want to see something even funnier ?
google his user name and you'll see what that 6800 is doing... mining ! something hes been doing since at least 2017

https://www.reddup.co/r/techsupportmacgyver/comments/m81xok

"eksterVX · 7 days ago
Bought it yesterday, got 2 rtx 3070 coming tomorrow to join this sexy boi, that's going to be fun."

some of these posters complaining about getting orders cancelled are dirty little liars.

Nicholas Eagle · 26 Mar 2021 at 05:38

ASMB said:
I didn't need to use discord as Overclockers gave a heads up one week that they were selling cards at the end of the week, I monitored the shop and forum and got one. If you just wanted one card from OCUK in particular you could have joined their forum earlier and got one. Read back in this thread as to how you can get a chance at a card in the near future

Honestly the way you sound in regards to how you got your card is very narrow minded, not everyone is you and it frustrates me that you make it sound like we are all to conform to how you got your card.

Let's be real, this isn't the 2000s and the the way high value items are being bought and /monitored has changed, companies need to adapt, be it anti bot techniques or improved backend services to handle user traffic more effectively.

What I don't get is the MM. Is a small subset of total users i get the approach and I appreciate that a company would go these lengths to get a card in to the hands of an honest buyer, but from a bussines perspective, you basically stand to alienate a large proportion of buyer because technically the other side of mm is every household in the UK which I think is a greater number unless I'm wrong?

All I'm saying is reputation is quick to be broken and very difficult to be repaired, it a shame tbh.

Nicholas Eagle · 26 Mar 2021 at 05:42

ASMB said:
It would help if you learned english comprehension and also didn't cut out part of my quote, look back in this thread as I kindly advised you. Don't blame me if you decided to ignore that help.

I wrote this
I didn't need to use discord as Overclockers gave a heads up one week that they were selling cards at the end of the week, I monitored the shop and forum and got one. If you just wanted one card from OCUK in particular you could have joined their forum earlier and got one. Read back in this thread as to how you can get a chance at a card in the near future

Your response here is all well and good but being passive aggressive back is not cool either.

Just because they did something doesn't make it right for you to do ether.

Not cool calling someone's "English" out, could be a number of reasons for it.

Just my 2 pennies

chroniclard · 26 Mar 2021 at 05:47

Nicholas Eagle said:
Honestly the way you sound in regards to how you got your card is very narrow minded, not everyone is you and it frustrates me that you make it sound like we are all to conform to how you got your card.

Let's be real, this isn't the 2000s and the the way high value items are being bought and /monitored has changed, companies need to adapt, be it anti bot techniques or improved backend services to handle user traffic more effectively.

What I don't get is the MM. Is a small subset of total users i get the approach and I appreciate that a company would go these lengths to get a card in to the hands of an honest buyer, but from a bussines perspective, you basically stand to alienate a large proportion of buyer because technically the other side of mm is every household in the UK which I think is a greater number unless I'm wrong?

All I'm saying is reputation is quick to be broken and very difficult to be repaired, it a shame tbh.

MM works really really well, its well moderated, I have bought and sold a fair few bits over the years with zero hassle. While it may exclude the newer members or those who dont bang on about ********/argue the toss over nothing like some of us it may be a necessary evil in these times.

In this case I am not sure if its just currently a test bed for these vouchers or it will work that way going forward?

Nicholas Eagle · 26 Mar 2021 at 05:51

chroniclard said:
MM works really really well, its well moderated, I have bought and sold a fair few bits over the years with zero hassle. While it may exclude the newer members or those who dont bang on about ********/argue the toss over nothing like some of us it may be a necessary evil in these times.

In this case I am not sure if its just currently a test bed for these vouchers or it will work that way going forward?

Yes but correct me if I'm wrong, the mm has originally been for trading items between members... I don't see mm so can't comment but did it include retail or is this just since the did they voucher code approach?

chroniclard · 26 Mar 2021 at 06:09

Nicholas Eagle said:
Yes but correct me if I'm wrong, the mm has originally been for trading items between members... I don't see mm so can't comment but did it include retail or is this just since the did they voucher code approach?

Yeah just for members to trade. Just the voucher thing, that I can remember. Guess one of the reasons is otherwise the code would be leaked pretty quickly. Pros and cons, personally it seems there are more pros to this approach if the idea is to give long term members(that also frequent the forums) a chance to get a GPU.

Nicholas Eagle · 26 Mar 2021 at 06:15

chroniclard said:
Yeah just for members to trade. Just the voucher thing, that I can remember. Guess one of the reasons is otherwise the code would be leaked pretty quickly. Pros and cons, personally it seems there are more pros to this approach if the idea is to give long term members(that also frequent the forums) a chance to get a GPU.

Id argue that long term that anti bot techniques should be focused on in the web platform, it's a little dated and the backend looks like it could do with some love like the front end.

I think someone was asking oc for details on how they identified or blocked the bots earlier, personally I wouldn't release that info as it makes it easier for them to circumvent it in the future.