Soldato
Just give it 4 more posts and that'll be it until tomorrow 
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When are you guys planning on telling us ETA's for our pre-orders? Or giving us queue numbers?
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Exactly.
A company knows what they have coming in, and they know based on previous interactions with Nvidia and partners and previous orders from them how many roughly they are expected to get each week.
Not really, anything can happen to cause a shortage. They can order as many as they need, doesn't mean it will be fulfilled...
Yes it would
But then what if it wasn’t?
Its not in their interest to tell you what place in the queue you are, cause as soon as you know you'll cancel your order and risk getting one from another retailer that hasn't hiked the price, plus they'll have to give you the money back and then they earn less interest.
I'll wait here for the fanbois and bulletin board heros to flame me haha
I'll wait here for the fanbois and bulletin board heros to flame me haha
That would too.
This is the last reply il do until someone who works at OCUK replies (if they Do).
I think so many of you are seeing OCUK as some old buddy you had at school trying his best to fulfull orders.
When in reality they are a business who care mostly about money (Nothing wrong with that), who also price hiked their GPU prices while people were checking out of their website as it was crashing, and were charged upwards of £50-70 more for their GPU's than they were expecting to based on the prices that were listed when checking out, as they updated while the order was processing.
They also charged expensive next day delivery on thousands of orders they knew weren't going to be shipped for months, and have now left thousands of pre-orders without even rough estimates of shipping dates.
Overclockers isn't the innocent old man you speak to at the park, they're a business who want to make money out of you. And a part of being a business and taking your money for items if giving you a certain level of service. Which hasn't been happening.
They upped the prices a bunch of times for all of their items, even while checking out and charged people more than they intended to spend. They aren't innocent in this
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That wouldn't tell you when you're getting your card though as Shiari pointed out.
Everyone on earth knew this was going to be a complete ****-show. People only have themselves to blame for ignoring all the evidence, there's 1,000s upon 1,000s of them waiting for cards who got suckered in by the shady marketing, ignored the heavily forecasted scarcity, and in many cases also got gouged ito the bargain.
And guess what? It just happened again with the 3090, no stock but plenty of gouging and the mugs queued up for it.
This why GPU's now cost as much as much as they do.
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Let me rephrase that:
They know that right now they are expecting very small quantities of cards which can't possibly meet demand, and that will at least be until in October. For a particular card there could be weeks between deliveries. Some of these may be going to prebuilt systems, some might be used for RMA, but they are still small quantities. Some will not be known, e.g. some of these Asus cards haven't gone out yet. And then there are people cancelling orders all the time as well.
In that scenario, it will be essentially impossible to lets say ... be certain that the delivery coming in 3 weeks can be used to serve customers 78 to 115 waiting for that particular card. Maybe the likes of the "rainforest" can achieve something like that with reasonable accuracy, but logistics is the core of that company. I don't think OCUK is capable of that right now, though the tool or whatever it is that they're working on might be a step towards that.
Logistics isn't easy at the best of times, and these are far from the best of times.
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Anyone with logistics experience with products in short supply knows that you order as much as you can and cross your fingers for what actually arrives. I've seen OCUK hold people's money for months and months on end for monitotrs that never materialise. This is why pre-ordering non-existent products is for fools, but the fools won't listen, instead they cram forums with questions about when they're getting what they paid for, even when they knew that product wasn't in stock, or did not have a firm ETA.
They wont be putting a que online anytime soon as tonnes of refunds will be requested from those who are too far back in the line to get them before Christmas. I imagine this would be a tonne to process, and would drive complaints up for people not getting refunded quickly from the point of requesting it. Unfortunately its a void at this point, and its up to Nvidia's manufacturing levels in late October mid November as to when we will realistically see an uptick in orders being sent out imo.
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Well Gibbo gave answer. If yer order landed pre 15 October Pre 16 November pass 5 December+
So By that You should know when you getting card.
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Well how many got Shipped out and how many made it to warehouse is totally different story. Have you been following LOGISTIC NEWS in uk rescently ??
What are you even saying
Where supply exceeds demand, yes. Its common for orders to be cut down on items that have limited availabilty, and that cut down may not happen until the stock is ready to ship from the supplier.
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Guess You are not inteligent enough to use skill called READING. Set me retype it for You
Pre 15 October
Pre 16 November
pass 16 DECEMBER
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My order seems to have disappeared from the site, they've taken the money though...
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