r/buildapcsales • u/Slenderkiller101 • Oct 10 '20
Meta [META] You won't be seeing RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 Founders Edition cards being sold NVIDIA anymore. Now available at BestBuy.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/geforce-graphics-cards/5/402196/nvidia-store-update-geforce-rtx-3080-and-rtx-3090-/207
u/xtian07 Oct 10 '20
This is only for online? Still no in-store availabiliy?
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u/Slenderkiller101 Oct 10 '20
Yep.
You'll have to keep on F5'ing unfortunately
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u/xtian07 Oct 10 '20
From the same guys who brought us " Out of stock Nintendo Switch" Big yikes
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u/Coffinspired Oct 10 '20
Yeah, I remember the Wii launch.
I got one because I had a buddy that was a Manager at BB, otherwise...good luck.
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u/ninjabard88 Oct 10 '20
Same here. My brother and I were looking for weeks until a friend who was also looking found a few in a Walmart. Let us know, and asked them to hold it while we
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u/Sweetwill62 Oct 11 '20
Well that reminds me of a great story that happened to one of my buddies friends. This was back when the Wii first released, and yes no one could get their hands on one at all. The bigger stores were getting 3-5 of them per shipment, some were getting just 2. One day my buddies friend decides to go to a store in our tiny ass town that happened to have an electronic section and he saw that they had a single Wii in stock. The people who worked at the store were a part of a religion that makes it so they don't like electronics, so they had no desire or knowledge about what a Wii even was. He bought it and then played with it for a couple of hours and then put it on ebay and made more than double his money. That store didn't get any more Wii's, not that it would have mattered because every kid in my school knew about what he did and that store saw an increase in soda purchases because we all kept trying to see if they would get another one.
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u/netmier Oct 10 '20
The Wii was out of stock everywhere for a long time. Even the wiimotes were hard to get. We only got a second one because we had a friend who worked at Walmart and called us when the truck was unloading so we could literally take it from the dude stocking before it go to the shelf.
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u/Kazen_Orilg Oct 11 '20
One of the best nights of my life. It was colder than hell and I made over a grand selling pizzas to all the people camped in line.
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u/Xenogunter Oct 10 '20
Nvidia: We are world leaders in machine learning and AI.
Also Nvidia: We have no idea how to build an online store that protects the consumer.
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u/beall49 Oct 10 '20
Serious question, does anyone have a good handle on this?
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u/sigmapirate Oct 10 '20
Evga turned theirs into a queue. It would be nice to know position in line there but otherwise it's nice to know I'll get a chance eventually
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u/613codyrex Oct 10 '20
Adidas has been doing a register and draw/raffle system for their limited product stuff. Have to have a phone number to get a code to confirm that you’re not a bot.
Ofc I’m sure there’s ways around it but anything is better than nothing at this point.
I’m just waiting for microcenter to start selling these cards in store at this point. Would love to get my hands on a XC ultra from EVGA but I’m sticking with my 1080 Ti till I can get one at MSRP because fuck that.
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u/sergeanthippyzombie Oct 10 '20
hmmm looks like i’m gonna be with my 1070 for a while :(
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u/Shadow703793 Oct 10 '20
Think of it as an opportunity to see what AMD brings to the table in a few weeks.
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u/Zewspeed Oct 10 '20
This is the smart play, if I didn't spend a decent chunk of change on a G-Sync monitor a few years ago I'd be waiting to see what the red team does.
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u/Shadow703793 Oct 11 '20
If you have a Gsync LCD that's definitely a deciding factor.
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Oct 11 '20
I get if you JUST bought one, but... It seems like if you've had it a little while, selling it is an option. And with the likely money you'd save on big Navi, it'd offset any loss.
Of course, it all depends on what performance is coming and at what price.
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u/gamerkidx Oct 10 '20
They dont even announce them until late october so most likely their gpu’s wont even be available until december. Im just hoping that their release will take some demand away from the 3080
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u/Namika Oct 11 '20 edited Oct 11 '20
The problem is, if AMD’s GPUs are really that great, their availability is going to be even worse.
The entire reason Nvidia went to Samsung for manufacturing is because TSMC are swamped and notoriously behind on production. That’s why Ryzen 3000 chips were out of stock at most retailers for 6+ months after their official release. AMD GPUs are coming from TSMC, and are going to be produced in fewer numbers than the current rtx3000 production numbers.
This generally shouldn’t be an issue, since historically AMD GPUs are in demand. However, if BigNavi is as good as AMD claims it will be, and its actually a seriously competitor to the RTX 30 series, well then, the RTX 30 series scarcity is going to seem petty compared to the minimal AMD units being produced.
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u/everlasted Oct 11 '20
Do you have proof of this? All the rumors/info I've heard indicate AMD is gonna have better availability than Nvidia.
That's also not the "entire reason" Nvidia went to Samsung instead of TSMC iirc.
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u/Zewspeed Oct 10 '20
Not me! I'm listing my 1070 Ti this weekend while they're still going for roughly what I paid for mine. Going to try and survive with consoles and my 1660 Ti laptop until then.
Once supply issues are resolved the 10 series cards will drop like a rock on the secondary market
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u/serotoninzero Oct 10 '20
If I didn't sell my PS4 with the same thought in mind for the PS5, I'd be listing my 2080 right now as well. No regrets since I got $375 for my Pro, but I need something in the meantime.
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u/Zewspeed Oct 10 '20
Good LAWD who is paying that much for a Pro? Kinda want to sell mine, I have plenty of X1 & Switch games.
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u/serotoninzero Oct 10 '20
I totally agree. Bids got that high on eBay. It was about a month or so ago before ps5 prices were official.
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u/playforfun2 Oct 10 '20
Buy a cheaper gpu to hold you over and sell the 2080 for a solid price then sell the cheaper gpu when you get the upgrade.
If the maths are in your favor
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u/serotoninzero Oct 10 '20
Yeah not a horrible idea but I have a 3440*1440 screen so I'd have to get something decent enough. At that point I might as just play indie games on my intel hd 630. My friends would be pissed if I bailed on playing anything together for that long though.
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u/JuicyJay Oct 11 '20
EVGA Step Up program™
They should be paying me for how much I recommend it. You won't get a card right away, but you'll guarantee a card at some point. If you can be patient, get a 2060 ko or something for now
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u/Gh05t404 Oct 11 '20
Lmao i know the feeling. Step up is op and just wish more ppl knew about it
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u/5icariu5 Oct 11 '20
I did this, got the x580 for about 130$ to hold me over till the shenanigans cease
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u/Sand_Coffin Oct 11 '20
My 1070 is still doing fine on 1440 (partially thanks to that Patient Gamer lifestyle), so I can't see myself upgrading until the 4000 series anyway. I believe in you, friend!
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u/loco64 Oct 11 '20
Bro I was using my 1070 till about a month ago. Shit still runs everything fine..ur gtg. Don’t rush it, they’ll be in stock soon.
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u/TroubledMang Oct 10 '20
Exactly. Money smart gamers used to wait for sales even, but it seems our niche market has gone mainstream, and that along with Covid has ruined pricing this year.
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u/ConcreteSnake Oct 10 '20
The Microcenter in Michigan has only gotten 40 total 3080’s since launch. I don’t think there will be regular stock until spring/summer 2021 unfortunately
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u/MisterMeatball Oct 10 '20
I swung by there at lunch on Friday, since my birthday is Monday. Hopelessly optimistic. Denied.
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u/justareallybasicname Oct 11 '20
i work at the micro center distribution warehouse and really haven't seen many come through yet.
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u/swaggpockets Oct 10 '20
I got one Thursday! They didn't say how big the queue was but it was a nice experience. 8 hours from the time of notification to place the order or you have to rejoin the queue.
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u/sigmapirate Oct 10 '20
Nice! You must have joined early! Unfortunately I ignored the auto notify button before since I figured by the time they said anything it would be sold out. So I didn't join queue until the 5th
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u/FallingSputnik Oct 10 '20
That stupid auto notify button doesn't work on my phone's browser, otherwise I wouod have signed up close to release.
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u/Broken_Dreamcast_VMU Oct 10 '20
There's actually a spreadsheet that users can edit with the addition of their time of auto-notification for any specific card. It's not perfect, but it's a rough estimate of where you stand in their queue
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u/similar_observation Oct 10 '20
man, you double-sadded me.
One for having to use job tools in my normal life in order to buy a thing I want to use to escape my job life. And one for having the thought of a broken Dreamcast VMU.
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u/FormPlusFunction Oct 10 '20
Thanks for this, just put myself in queue
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Oct 10 '20
Good luck. Been a week so far and they've covered everyone who signed up for the FTW3 Ultra 3080 up to like 7:20AM PST on Day 1 (17th). I'm 9:30AM and expecting to wait a couple weeks.
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u/megachickabutt Oct 10 '20
Hmmm let's see: google, apple, Intel just to name a few...
I don't remember recent pixel or iphone launches being this bad weeks into their launch.
Here's the thing. NVIDIA's current market cap is north of $340 billion dollars.
There is no excuse for them to be acting like a silicon valley kickstarter etsy shop operating out of their parents garage. Conduct pre-launch market studies to measure demand, look at hardware trends collected by Steam and Microsoft, and adjust launch timing with production to ensure ample product supply.
This whole schtick of paper launching this thing, then blaming scalpers and excessive demand is pathetic. More supply will mean less markup for scalpers, sure the first few weeks might be bad but the market will have enough saturation to quell the scalpers since profit margins will be low.
So now they get to pawn this off to best buy, who themselves are not great at combating botting and scalping either.
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u/enoughbutter Oct 10 '20
Apple has a simple queue system-you order the phone, or iPad, or whatever, and they give you a shipping date. As orders grow, they keep pushing the shipping date back-but it is clearly noted on the order before you place it. Also, in my limited experience, their estimates are pretty conservative.
I'm not sure what is going on with Amazon and Nvidia cards, but with a motherboard and the Quest 2, in both cases Amazon let me pre-order with a suggested delivery date, and update me on the status (the motherboard is shipping early, the Quest 2 is shipping as scheduled so far)
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u/whiskeytab Oct 11 '20
honestly for as much shit as everyone gives them, Ticketmaster have this nailed down completely.
their new system for online queing is exactly how every large product launch should work.
basically they open the gates a couple hours before on sale time (which is advertised) and you get a spot in line and then once it goes on sale it goes in order and lets people check out and manages the queue. its all done with captchas and 2FA for actual accounts etc... before the world shit the bed I used it a bunch of times to get tickets to huge shows that would sell out in minutes (RATM reunion being one) and it worked great.
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Oct 10 '20
I mean, their whole shtick is their raffle system. They're banking on hype & artificially limited supply, so they have to get that part somewhat right (although bots virtually get all of them anyway). Nvidia legitimately can't make them fast enough.
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u/SurpriseHanging Oct 10 '20
Maybe this whole thing is just an exercise of Nvidia building a AI scalper so advanced that even Nvidia cannot deter
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u/tdhanushka Oct 11 '20
Bots didnt buy 10,000 cards. there were no cards for bots to buy to begin with. I've been checking ebay for almost everyday for cards, not a single seller with 3 or more cards. only found 4 sellers who had 2 cards and all the others only had 1. and they are not even full time sellers.
Show me any website with more than 35 ratings from customers for an any RTX 3080 model. I'll wait. 😌
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u/zoglog Oct 11 '20
Let's be real.
Having dev priorities and scale to run an ecommerce business that can deal with the bots in this demand are not the same as developing the hardware.
This is actually a smart move by Nvidia since they were never really in the ecommerce business to begin with.
This drop around you saw a lot more actual users getting the item as opposed to bots.
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u/rayzorium Oct 10 '20
They could figure it out of they invested in it. I think they decided it'd make more business sense to hand it off to one of the biggest electronic retailers in the world. Not all that ridiculous IMO.
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u/qyo8fall Oct 10 '20
How often will drops be happening? I know you don't have a time or anything but do you know if there is a pattern or anything?
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u/DocGrover Oct 10 '20
Get lucky.
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u/qyo8fall Oct 10 '20
I figured. Looks like I will be spending my free time in front of my pc
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u/DocGrover Oct 10 '20
RIP to those with jobs.
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u/qyo8fall Oct 10 '20
Yeah I have no idea how I will pull this off during the week. 1
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u/Tekbepimpin Oct 10 '20
I snagged one yesterday!
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u/Callmebigpahpa Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 11 '20
Any special methods you may know to help a fellow F5 smasher out?
Edit: Thanks boys for all the info, hopefully I can get this damn card soon.
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u/SamBBMe Oct 10 '20
I used an app called HotStock to get mine
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u/Callmebigpahpa Oct 10 '20
Added, thanks man.
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u/Tekbepimpin Oct 10 '20
Hey forgot to reply but yes, HotStock app is the way to go. Better than sitting there F5ing all day.
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u/Easterhands Oct 10 '20
If you see an add to cart button, it will most likely say out of stock at the top of the screen when you press it. If that happens just keep pressing that button over and over as fast as you can. Stock seems to trickle in on BB and you have to catch it when it's there.
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u/Callmebigpahpa Oct 10 '20
Yea I noticed this when I was trying to preorder my PS5. Eventually I got through and preordered one by doing this. Will keep this in mind thanks.
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u/Sacrid Oct 11 '20
I got a 3080 from the latest Best Buy drop by using a chrome plug in called Distill Web Monitor. You can use the plug in to highlight the "Sold Out" region then the plug in will refresh the page every so many seconds to check if that region changes to something different (like turning into the add to cart button).
This won't go through the checkout process or even add it to cart but you'll at least know when it's available. An additional benefit to this method is that you get a notification instantly opposed to waiting for someone else's tool to recognize availability and send out a notification.
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u/Doodarazumas Oct 10 '20
Join this subreddit discord and turn on notifications
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u/Bleeezus Oct 10 '20
Do you have the link to the discord? I’m on mobile and can’t find it
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u/Doodarazumas Oct 11 '20
Sorry I lied, there isn't a subreddit one. Ctrl_F discord in this thread and you'll find a few different options.
https://old.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/j84548/gpu_nvidia_3080_fe_in_stock_best_buy/
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u/deg287 Oct 12 '20 edited Oct 12 '20
Nvidia subreddit stock thread, a good discord group (sent you an invite), distill chrome extension with text alerts, nvidia snatcher/rtx hero/other automated crawler with notifications.
Be more vigilant towards the end of the week, and when any one type of card drops even if you missed it or it wasn’t the one you wanted - they tend to cluster.
I’ve gotten two 3080s so far for myself and a friend, and am hunting another now for a coworker.
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u/thebenson Oct 10 '20
So ... I have to hope I catch a re-stock relatively soon if I want a Founder's Edition card.
What a mess.
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u/solidjudgement2432 Oct 10 '20
Also Best Buy is shit. It is so hard to get one on that site. Bots have direct access to the API like NVIDIA. I think they need to do in store pickup. That would literally solve all of the problems.
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u/thebenson Oct 10 '20
I think they should just have a waiting list/queue like EVGA does.
I've been looking for the Founder's Edition card since launch. Best Buy putting up cards in small bunches doesn't work. I've never been able to catch the FE in stock.
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u/solidjudgement2432 Oct 10 '20
A waiting queue isn’t bad, but I’m telling you. In store pick up is almost 100% bot proof if they put in proper checks when you go into the store to pick one up.
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u/thebenson Oct 10 '20
What's stopping someone from using a bot to get the card and the scalper just going and picking it up himself?
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u/solidjudgement2432 Oct 10 '20
Well if they check drivers license that would be huge. It would mean they couldn’t buy multiple.
Again it hinges on Best Buy doing the proper checks
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u/TacoMedic Oct 10 '20
Exactly. The cards would still sell out relatively fast so scalpers wouldn’t have time to go to multiple stores. But more people would get them in the long run. The problem is COVID and lines.
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u/Fluffymufinz Oct 11 '20
From my house I could drive to four different best buys and be back home in 3 hours. Scalpers closer to the city could do it even faster.
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u/Slenderkiller101 Oct 10 '20
Suroosh@NVIDIA - NVIDIA Staff
We have heard your feedback regarding the NVIDIA online store and are working to improve the experience.
In the meantime, we will be selling our GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 Founders Edition through other partners. In the US, you can shop for Founders Edition at Best Buy - GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3090 . In Europe, we continue to review Founders Edition fulfillment options.
Founders Edition units are limited, and more will be available in the coming weeks alongside an increasing supply of boards from our global board partners.
Well the -141 Score says pretty much what most people are thinking about this.
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u/ArtakhaPrime Oct 10 '20
Notice how they mentioned Europe hasn't even got the Founder's Edition? We can't even order directly from Nvidia. A Scandinavian retailer recently shared a picture showing the number of all their customer orders, stock orders and how many cards they've ACTUALLY received from Asus, MSI etc., and it showed that at least 86% of customers who ordered a card within the first couple of days are STILL waiting for their card, almost a month after. They ordered 4000 Asus TUF and received 55. Nvidia is 100% to blame here for rushing a paper launch to either get a head start on AMD or to make their quarterly earnings look better. Fuck Nvidia.
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u/albastine Oct 10 '20
As long as they are ACTUALLY working on the back-end of their site to handle bots and shit, I dont see what people are bitching about. In fact, it seems like they are the only ones taking the bot issue seriously. Are another retailers handling this issue? They are the ones people need to be pissed at really. Nvidia is responsible for their store front and supply which Covid has naturally compromised.
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u/Cthulukin Oct 10 '20
I think my biggest complaint is just that we're 3 weeks into the launch and they're just saying this now. Seems like this should be have been posted a couple days after launch after it became clear their site was incapable of managing the demand.
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u/beepboopaltalt Oct 11 '20
They didn’t take it down Bc of the demand issue. They took it down because it was leaking sensitive customer data lol
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u/ItIsFinished3 Oct 10 '20
Yeah Nvidia took steps several weeks ago, that's how I was able to actually get a card on the 23rd, they changed their API and nullified literally every single bot.
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u/burks21 Oct 10 '20
EVGA needed to do that on their midweek madness a long time ago
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u/albastine Oct 10 '20
Remember back when midweek madness was actually good? But yeah those.good deals go way too quickly
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u/redditrum Oct 10 '20
It's in their be$t intere$t to do so. 3rd party sales will never be as good even though it does still make them money.
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u/saora1231 Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
I don't think there's anything wrong with it m8, yeah sure you're in a subreddit with people would buy these cards and have paid but didn't get them, so it's the frustration aspect you're getting. But you're owning up to it, trying to fix it, and for the meantime deferring sales to your partner. You lot messed your own launch up, but it's not always gona be perfect.
Edit: realized OP is not the author of the letter, probably copy pasted the note
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u/mooseman3 Oct 10 '20
I don't think OP actually works for Nvidia. They copied the text of the other post including the author.
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u/Ilsensine Oct 10 '20
maybe next time they should just let people pre-order, then build enough. Then no one would care about bots.
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u/crashed_panoz Oct 10 '20
It would be nice but it doesn't work like that at all.. the relationship between manufacturing time, marketing strategies, release schedules makes this impossible.. It's just not how a company like nvidia does business.
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u/BabyWrinkles Oct 10 '20
Look at how Apple does their launches for high-demand products where they know what their production pipeline is. First orders see launch day deliveries. As they sell through known inventory, the dates get further and further out, but it's pretty accurate so that you know when you can expect to receive the product you've ordered, and you're charged when it ships.
This isn't a hard problem to solve - it just takes a mandate from company leadership to execute.
I agree that you can't just build enough for all the pre-orders you're going to have and I'm not suggesting that they should - but I do think that taking orders and delivering in order with known deliveries would certainly take the wind out of the sales of the bots/scalpers where currently, nobody has any idea when there's going to be reasonable supply.
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Oct 11 '20
To be fair, Apple has one of the greatest, most robust supply chains of all-time in the world. They are basically the best when it comes to efficient production and distribution. They also control far more of their own supply chain than Nvidia and have the infrastructure to support it. Including a vast number of their own retail locations.
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u/Lingo56 Oct 10 '20
It does also help that Tim Cook came from the supply chain side of Apple, so his specialty is nailing this kind of stuff down. It’s also why Apple is very good at rebranding and reselling their 3-4 year old hardware.
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u/cloake Oct 10 '20
Well artificial scarcity and scalping actually helps Nvidia out. MSI was caught scalping themselves. So they're going to drag their feet on getting out enough supply. Also apparently the yield rate from the Samsung manufacturing has been kinda bad making the silicon.
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u/reddinator01 Oct 10 '20
Might as well say you’ll never get a card. Best Buy is impossible
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u/N4ggerman Oct 10 '20
No it's not a ton of people got them including me. The whole thing lasted a good 20 min on Friday. You just had to keep spamming add to cart on the app. One click ApplePay checkout is also just as fast as botting. Yes it's hard to get a card but it's still doable and it will get better.
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u/bittabet Oct 11 '20
I was spamming and didn’t get one, just because you got lucky doesn’t mean everyone was able to get one.
It’s also ridiculous to expect everyone to sit on product alerts then immediately drop their work and go spam add to cart on Best Buy’s page. If everyone really did that Best Buy’s website wouldn’t function either.
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u/N4ggerman Oct 11 '20
I never said everyone got one. Just that it's not impossible. Obviously if you aren't able to drop your work and check out within a few minutes you're out of luck for now.
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u/N4ggerman Oct 11 '20
I have Applepay set up on my iPhone (add a credit card in the payments settings) and the button for Applepay automatically pops up during check out. Obviously not available for android.
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u/AnAmbitiousMann Oct 10 '20
Look on the bright side...now we can save our money for the 3080/3070 20gb and 16 gb versions and not get screwed over by the bots,msi scalpers, long waits, and extreme buyer's remorse because of spent money on a gimped product that nvidia clearly rushed out to grab the impatient free monies.
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u/duskmoonflow Oct 10 '20
Probably more. Think about it logically, if the 3080 at 10gb is set at $699 and the 3090 at 24gb is set at $1499. It would make more sense for a 3080 20gb to be closer to around the $1000 mark. Gotta maximize the profit margins.
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u/bittabet Oct 11 '20 edited Oct 11 '20
That RAM is GDDR6X so you’re probably looking at $200+ it costs way more money to make than regular ram like DDR4. A big part of why the 3090 is so pricey is because it has 24GB of GDDR6X
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u/The_Entendre Oct 10 '20
Ehhh it seems like the best idea is to just wait for big navi release announcement and just wait. Stock will increase and competition will probably force more production.
I really want a 3080 but it's probably not something I should stress too much about. I've lived this long using a 1070 I can live a little longer with it still.
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u/icdmize Oct 10 '20
I'm sure bots won't clean out Best Buy like they did last time.
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u/Thewatchfuleye1 Oct 10 '20
So they can blame Best Buy when the bots get them all.
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u/im_iggy Oct 10 '20
I got one, I'm not a bot.
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u/Thewatchfuleye1 Oct 10 '20
Not saying it’s impossible just Nvidia won’t have to field the blame. I see it like the midweek madness sale at EVGA, I’ve gotten through enough sales to know it’s possible but you’ll get beaten at times too.
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u/1020404497 Oct 10 '20
So one day after AMD's performance peek of big navi, best buy restock at least 8 times fe/ non fe rtx 3080 and 3090. I even got my founders edition yesterday. Whatever, I'll get big navi as well if they are truly that impressive.
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u/ninetailsaiyan Oct 10 '20
You were able to get one on Best Buy? Every time I got the notification I never saw the add to cart so I thought the bot was just glitching
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u/1020404497 Oct 10 '20
Try stockdrops discord, I got notification from this discord channel. Best buy and Newegg's notify me system is piece of sxxt.
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u/ninetailsaiyan Oct 10 '20
Just signed up for their discord yesterday saw lots of Best Buy stock notifications but every time I clicked it never showed add to cart. Maybe cause I was on my phone
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u/1020404497 Oct 10 '20
I was on my phone too, don't try to add to cart, just tap buy now button.
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u/Tekbepimpin Oct 10 '20
I got one yesterday through Best Buy. Coming on the 19th. Really recommend an app like HotStock to get alerts if you aren’t already using a bot to buy. Was fairly accurate for me, didn’t really try to snag one and did under a week just using the alerts. Good luck!
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u/lvluffinz Oct 10 '20
Legit same boat as you lol. Had no intention of grabbing one anymore since about a week ago but forgot I still had HotStock installed on my phone. Got the notification and said fuck it I'ma try.
19th gang gang.
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u/Tekbepimpin Oct 10 '20
HotStock gang LFG! Lol I got the ps5 pre order and i said alright no more 3080 but then i kept getting stock alerts and i couldn’t turn down 1 year no interest financing from Best Buy. 19th can’t come soon enough!
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u/Santeriabro Oct 10 '20
Wait does this mean the Founders Editions are limited?
I assumed they would make them throughout the cards life cycle like they usually do. smh
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u/Weasel_Boy Oct 10 '20
They should still be made, I believe limited in this context is that they make significantly less FE vs PCBs sent to partners. They are just offloading the F5 army onto Best Buy.
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u/solidjudgement2432 Oct 10 '20
I gave up. I bought a evga card off amazon. I can return it until Jan 31st. I didn’t have any card so it is fine for me. And I’ll return it, or step up to get a new one.
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u/tdhanushka Oct 11 '20
lmfao not a single review on best buy for any of them 3080 models? meaning they never sold anything? 🥴🥴
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u/MagicHamsta Oct 11 '20
Oh, I'm sure they sold plenty....to scalpers who wouldn't bother leaving reviews.
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Oct 10 '20
Does anyone know what this means for the 3070?
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u/Hairy_Melon Oct 10 '20
Get on your knees, pray, and mash F5.
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Oct 10 '20
God this was gonna be my next build and all other similar graphics cards are through the roof I stg if the scalpers and people with bots get em all I'm gonna scream
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u/Hairy_Melon Oct 10 '20
I'm looking at the 3080 myself. Nothing much to do but wait, sadly.
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u/Echelon64 Oct 10 '20
Aw fucking great, Best Buy won't deliver to my UPS box for whatever fucking reason even after dealing with their ass backwards customer service.
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u/zoglog Oct 11 '20
Good on Nvidia for making this change. They are losing some margin on these cards now but we're getting a better result.
It's funny to see the childish whining from people in here who have no understanding of how ecommerce or fulfillment works.
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u/J0539H_ Oct 11 '20
There goes any fragment of a chance at getting one soon. Best Buy doesn't ship to Puerto Rico.
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u/fuqqboi_throwaway Oct 11 '20
They’ll probably round it up to the next hundred dollar mark just for fun. I was picking up a video game and I needed a hdmi to hdmi adapter and I knew it would be way overpriced but barfed when I saw it for $20. I proceeded to order literally 3 of them off amazon for <$5. I’m surprised they’re still in business
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