Soldato
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Lots of things in this world operate this way.
When you buy a new car you pay the dealer several thousand pounds and don't even know when the car will turn up. Some weeks later you get a provisional build slot, some times those allocations get shifted around. 3-6 months later the car arrives.
If you need a new sliding door, you pay £2k in deposit and wait 2-3 months for it to be manufactured and delivered before you pay the rest.
If you buy any sort of custom furniture you go into the shop and pick out the colours and then hand over another £2k, then it arrives "when it's done". When you go and get a kitchen designed, oh wait you need to pay another deposit.
Deposits/pre-orders/handing over money before the product is ready to be delivered is normal.
You still haven't come up with a better system have you? I guess your solution is to have people sitting around pressing F5 every day hoping for new stock to arrive. Whereas people like me would rather pay £800 on Day 1 knowing that our position in the queue is saved for when the stock arrives.
Just ranting about something you don't like because you're uncomfortable paying for something unless it's in your hand next day.
You're buying a custom product with the sliding door, and with a new car you're buying something with specific specs, the furniture is a custom design...so there's an understandable delay while your CUSTOM item is built. That totally different to buying a standard GPU. So that's that argument dismissed.
A better system? Here we go.
Retailers don't take thousands of orders in advance for GPU's, orders which they have no idea when they can deliver.
Who is ranting?
I'm laughing my **** off at rubes like you.