Newegg Shuffle Program Returns as NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs and Newly Launched RTX 5070 Ti Sell Out in Record Time: “Unprecedented Demand”

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Newegg Shuffle allows customers a chance to purchase the incredibly popular products that often sell out immediately. Once entered in the Shuffle, customers are chosen at random, providing a fair and easy way for customers to acquire the latest in graphic technology.

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"Unprecedented Demand"

Yeah right. Everyone knew it was going to happen. I think the only card that might not sell out is the 5050, if one launches, since aside from new features just about everything before it, can beat it, and is still available.
 
I remember trying for the better part of a year to get a 3090 Ti back the last round and never had any luck. Meanwhile enrolled in the EVGA Stepup program and 3-6 months later got one. EVGA went the extra mile and let me trade it in to upgrade to their liquid cooled version for an extra $400-500 (I don't remember anymore) around 3-6 months after that purchase.

Next big rounds of 5080/5090 stock should be in around 2-3 weeks but I wouldn't be surprised to see a few trickle through. I was checking NowInStock just for the heck of it last week and there are some periodic drops but real inventory should happen, according to rumors, sometime in March. I did a post about this a few days back.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
Next big rounds of 5080/5090 stock should be in around 2-3 weeks
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Well it seems that asking double or more of the MSRP is not working that great as there are 5090,5080,5070Ti's in stock around here. I'm just keeping an eye on Nvidia shop atm as those are the only 'reasonable' priced ones but that might be in vain
 
lol, another shuffle this morning and they do have 5080s/5090s but at a glance they are all models priced well above MSRP. For the folks with deep pockets there's a Gigabyte liquid coolded for ~$2890 and for fifty less there's one with a waterblock.
 
Oh man.

Sorry for all you folks that had your heart set on these.

The Shuffle started out innocent enough, but turned into a crapfest of overpriced combos full of random junk they can't give away any other way.

The real pain is this "shortage" is entirely intentional, I'm absolutely convinced of it. I mean, maybe I need a new tinfoil hat, but ... I just see nVidia AND AIBs AND vendors with every financial incentive to create these shortages, and other than good will to the customer, no reason to not.

They definitely learned from the mining/covid days. Sad part is, until we can get something really competitive in the space it will not change. This is what happens when one company can dominate a market.
 
While I don't the the 'shortage' is manufactured, the scarcity is. What I mean by that is they make 20k cards... across every country in the world. across every vendor in the world.

When the chips they are sending out are the 'not quite right' or errors from the 'AI' solutions. (as seen by the off number of processing units.)
 
Well, manufactored/ intentional or not, they are definitely learning a sort of cadance pricing that may or may no bottom out to msrp. Did the 3000 series or the 4000 series ever really dropped to mrsp? Well if people pay the absurd prices, then they will get absurd prices, and seems theres plenty of early adopters with deep enough pockets.
 
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