If demand is way beyond supply why is there plenty stock on the shelves in the half dozen retailers i looked at last night, and yes i included you guys, as i said we all remember when there was no stock at all! I would suggest that we've reached the point where the fomo customers have all got their cards and the customers who have more sense, money wise, are not buying at the crazy prices that now exist.
Sales are strong, we have 100's in stock and we never turn down new stock to prevent running out, to run out of stock is to fail especially if stock was available to buy, so I literally take everything I can, simple fact is the product range has a few GPU's from each segment in stock, there is hardly a full range, just a few select cards in each category and everything is done on allocation. Were far from the days when I can just send a PO to a supplier for 1000 cards, the suppliers come to me offering what they can give and sometimes they get us some extra as were demanding. Sales are still superb considering.
And Gibbo, you actually believe that £1399 for a 3080 is ok or £800 for a 3070 or £2299 for a 3090!! Come on man. Anyway had enough.
I don't believe it is OK, it is an absolute joke, but I would be an idiot not to buy everything I can lay my hands on because all those 3080 at £1399 will sell as do the 3090's and everytime I can get more, I take everything I can get.
Your saying because a product is in stock it does not sell, that must mean that OcUK never sells anything as most the website is full of in stock items, like AMD Ryzen 3 processors and Intel 12th Gen CPU's, all in stock and all selling in large volumes.
Supply is improving, it is why now the odd deals can be done on GPU's like a 3060 at £499 today, now for these forums that is still considered a terrible price, but for our customer base it is the best deal in the UK and we have sold over 100 today, we snagged 1000 of these a couple of weeks ago, so when one can buy decent volumes the stock tends to last longer because we obviously have more and before it runs out I will no doubt be able to restock and get more to keep them always in stock, just like we do typically on other product lines.
Gibbo has OCUK found that demand for other items they sell across the store has increased, stabilised or dropped with the GPU madness across the last couple of years?
For example someone like me who use to be a pc gamer has now left the market with a computer sat in the corner of a room with no working GPU, who then inturn not be spending money like I use to be before on other PC parts/accessories etc.
Demand has gone from totally stupid where we either had to set an insane price to just stop it from selling in seconds, to the point where demand is still very strong but the supply has improved enough to NEARLY handle it, but saying this only on some product lines. AMD is doing OK, NVIDIA still have certain lines that sell out very quickly.
Last January was insane, the January previous was good, this January is still better than the latter but a bit down on the insane January of last year. The demand still outweighs the supply.
Chinese New Year coming up so prediction is the supply will drop off, meaning even less supply in February/March and hence probably very strong demand. April onwards is unknown, if prices increase another 20% won't be good, but right now we just take it week at a time.
To put it bluntly stock is still incredibly short and will no doubt get worse in February and potentially March too.
This madness won't end for some time yet.
