Soldato
LOL.. a lesson in what not to do and a cautionary tale!
I had pre-ordered an MSI Gaming X Trio 3080 on launch day, then realised the next day I'd need to reconfigure my water loop as the MSI is stupidly long, so ordered an Asus TUF OC 3080 a couple of days later.. My brother was desperate for a card so I kept the MSI one open so he could have that (it's still a damn good card).
I've been patiently waiting and getting queue updates, but on the launch of the RX6800XT my brother decided he'd rather go AMD and so I duly cancelled the MSI Gaming X Trio (19th Nov) as I'm not a scalper and wanted to give up the place in the Queue, so used the online form and cancelled..
I thought nothing of it until another Queue update came in for the MSI card, so thought I'd been stupid and not used the form correctly and so resubmitted a cancellation request...
In the background I'm having massive building work done (the house is a tip, no kitchen etc we are living on a building site), building a huge shed to house all the stuff displaced from the now demolished garage (in the middle of winter, not fun!), and on top of that, contracted COVID-19 (20th Nov) which has messed things up and took me out of action for nearly two weeks (Just getting over it now), So I never checked my emails properly at the time to realise what is so obvious now...
I'd stupidly/mistakenly cancelled the Asus card on 19th Nov, not realised and then cancelled the MSI properly on 1st Dec.. the Net effect is I've lost a reasonably priced Asus TUF OC.. Looking back I think the different web order number form the shop order number and having loads of emails for both had me cut/paste the wrong web order number.
With everything else going on I was hoping for a nice Xmas pressie to myself, but stupidity got in the way..
Of course cancellation is final etc, I ticked the boxes etc.. I've popped a web note in, but can't really expect any help with this..
It's probably karma, when I had to tell the Mrs her dream kitchen was now not remotely possible by Christmas and having all the stress of dealing with a very disappointed person, I guess I can share in that with my own tale of woe!
It's only a graphics card after all, but something about shiny new tech seems to bring out the worst in all of us!
I had pre-ordered an MSI Gaming X Trio 3080 on launch day, then realised the next day I'd need to reconfigure my water loop as the MSI is stupidly long, so ordered an Asus TUF OC 3080 a couple of days later.. My brother was desperate for a card so I kept the MSI one open so he could have that (it's still a damn good card).
I've been patiently waiting and getting queue updates, but on the launch of the RX6800XT my brother decided he'd rather go AMD and so I duly cancelled the MSI Gaming X Trio (19th Nov) as I'm not a scalper and wanted to give up the place in the Queue, so used the online form and cancelled..
I thought nothing of it until another Queue update came in for the MSI card, so thought I'd been stupid and not used the form correctly and so resubmitted a cancellation request...
In the background I'm having massive building work done (the house is a tip, no kitchen etc we are living on a building site), building a huge shed to house all the stuff displaced from the now demolished garage (in the middle of winter, not fun!), and on top of that, contracted COVID-19 (20th Nov) which has messed things up and took me out of action for nearly two weeks (Just getting over it now), So I never checked my emails properly at the time to realise what is so obvious now...
I'd stupidly/mistakenly cancelled the Asus card on 19th Nov, not realised and then cancelled the MSI properly on 1st Dec.. the Net effect is I've lost a reasonably priced Asus TUF OC.. Looking back I think the different web order number form the shop order number and having loads of emails for both had me cut/paste the wrong web order number.
With everything else going on I was hoping for a nice Xmas pressie to myself, but stupidity got in the way..
Of course cancellation is final etc, I ticked the boxes etc.. I've popped a web note in, but can't really expect any help with this..
It's probably karma, when I had to tell the Mrs her dream kitchen was now not remotely possible by Christmas and having all the stress of dealing with a very disappointed person, I guess I can share in that with my own tale of woe!
It's only a graphics card after all, but something about shiny new tech seems to bring out the worst in all of us!
