NVIDIA Accused of Limiting GeForce RTX 30 Series Availability to Inflate Prices

David_Schroth said:
So, what we know is that the on sale date/time is Thursday at 9am ET/6am PT. Some stores will have them posted right away (most likely nvidia direct and newegg), others are sporadic/take their time (Amazon). It's an exercise of having all your browser windows open and operating that F5 key if stock is as low as has been rumored.
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Or, you can exercise a little patience. Most video card launches I have been a part of have all played out similarly, in that the high- and enthusiast-level cards will be hard to get in the first month or two. But stock and fulfillment times smooth out very quickly after that. By all mean, try to grab one if you can, but don't beat yourself up if you can't get a new card on release day. The crypto question is the only thing that may throw this release for a loop.
 
David_Schroth said:
So, what we know is that the on sale date/time is Thursday at 9am ET/6am PT. Some stores will have them posted right away (most likely nvidia direct and newegg), others are sporadic/take their time (Amazon). It's an exercise of having all your browser windows open and operating that F5 key if stock is as low as has been rumored.
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It's still unclear to me whether only the FE stock will be low, or all.
 
Armenius said:
Or, you can exercise a little patience. Most video card launches I have been a part of have all played out similarly, in that the high- and enthusiast-level cards will be hard to get in the first month or two. But stock and fulfillment times smooth out very quickly after that. By all mean, try to grab one if you can, but don't beat yourself up if you can't get a new card on release day. The crypto question is the only thing that may throw this release for a loop.
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I couldn't get a 3900x for two months, then I said **** it and got a 3700x instead. Best decision I made. I would rarely if ever see the extra 4 cores benefit in the real world.

I honestly now just want a 3080, to see if it's really the next coming for myself, becuase it still sounds too good to be true. Run some benchmarks and if it's really that good I selll my 2080ti, if there is any meh factor, I'll just sell the 3080 in a week or two while demand is still high. If I can get one at launch that is.
 
Newegg is already listing base models from main and such at above msrp. So shock and awe....
 
Armenius said:
Marketplace sellers. Sold by Newegg are all still the base price.
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Amazon is the same, individuals and small shady overnight companies.
**** happens all the time when something new with demand pops up.
 
Well Nvidia over here was sold asap, the other retailers have different models all as preorder or arriving soon, so no stock at all so another paper launch if you ask me.
 
I was doing on-site work all day, by the time I got home I couldn't even see the prices. There is not even the option to put in an order.
 
MadMummy76 said:
I was doing on-site work all day, by the time I got home I couldn't even see the prices. There is not even the option to put in an order.
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Don't worry, there has not been an opportunity to place an order all day, so you didn't miss anything.
 
https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-is-manually-reviewing-rtx-3080-orders-to-stop-scalpers

“To stop bots and scalpers on the Nvidia store, we’re doing everything humanly possible, including manually reviewing orders, to get these cards in the hands of legitimate customers,” the company said while adding: “We apologize to our customers for this morning's experience.”

Even if true, that's only nVidia store... what are the odds of any other retailers reviewing orders one by one?
 
So far I have seen Asus offering a $699 card, the 3080 TUF.
Out of stock of course , like everything else.

But since you cant buy anything right now, how does that jive with all the conspiracy stuff lol.
Where are all the more expensive partner cards for sale?
 
northrop said:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-is-manually-reviewing-rtx-3080-orders-to-stop-scalpers

“To stop bots and scalpers on the Nvidia store, we’re doing everything humanly possible, including manually reviewing orders, to get these cards in the hands of legitimate customers,” the company said while adding: “We apologize to our customers for this morning's experience.”

Even if true, that's only nVidia store... what are the odds of any other retailers reviewing orders one by one?
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Probably none, but it should be easy to spot them since most came from Bounce Alerts.
 
Denpepe said:
There are none, saw on pcworld that they will only come next month (like the ROG strix versions)
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At one point this morning on nvidia shopping site, there was AIB 3080 board selling for $1,500.00 each -- Newegg, Amazon, among them...

Performance, or frames matter, or do they, and is frame times a bigger issue, or no... I tend to play all First Person Shoots (for most part) -- Forget the benchmarks (for a moment) -- I may toss in 5700XT in place of my Titan RTX for couple weeks and see if my game play (metrics KD/R etc) go down (in theory if raw speed and frames matter, it game play should go down right)...
 
nEo717 said:
At one point this morning on nvidia shopping site, there was AIB 3080 board selling for $1,500.00 each -- Newegg, Amazon, among them...

Performance, or frames matter, or do they, and is frame times a bigger issue, or no... I tend to play all First Person Shoots (for most part) -- Forget the benchmarks (for a moment) -- I may toss in 5700XT in place of my Titan RTX for couple weeks and see if my game play (metrics KD/R etc) go down (in theory if raw speed and frames matter, it game play should go down right)...
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Marketplace sellers. The site is listing the available price, which is not necessarily the one being sold directly from the retailer. When you click on the listing you'll see the list of sites.
 
Armenius said:
Marketplace sellers. The site is listing the available price, which is not necessarily the one being sold directly from the retailer. When you click on the listing you'll see the list of sites.
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No actually, when go to nvidia shopping site -- it shows AIB models (of course founders) -- many (10+) of the 3080 models was priced at $1,500.00 this morning -- the button you click is to check stock and buy it -- they all pulled up the correct card (at $1,500.00 each), even few showed in stock, but, could not get checked out. Currently prices for models shown tops $779, but none of them are in stock.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shop/g...11,GTX 1650 Ti~6,GTX 1650 SUPER~8,GTX 1650~34
 
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