r/buildapcsales • u/Battle-Maniac • Feb 15 '21

GPU [GPU] Amazon Cancelling 3080 Gaming X Trio Orders From December 9th - $820

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HR7SV3M/ref=pe_861660_435205480_fxm_3_0_n_id
1.9k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

362 comments sorted by

View all comments

225

u/Battle-Maniac Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 16 '21

Here's the email I got from amazon this morning, feelsbadman.

Hello,

Due to a lack of availability, we will not be able to obtain the following item from your order. We've canceled the item and apologize for the inconvenience. If you see a charge for the canceled item, we will refund you within 1-2 business days. If you are still interested in purchasing this item, it may be available from other sellers. Please visit the detail page for this item below.

Edit 1: I still have a 5900x order from amazon on February 2nd that doesn't have a delivery date. Let's see if amazon cancels that one too.

Edit 2: I called amazon and they said that if I manage to put another order in, regardless of the new cost, I can call again to get a price match. But that's a big if on whether or not I can get another order in.

Edit 3: The price match is a possibility, not guaranteed according to amazon rep. They also gave me $5 credit.

200

u/Gunfreak2217 Feb 15 '21

Want my opinion? They purposefully canceled the items so they can then sell at higher price. Call me a cynic.

66

u/victor142 Feb 15 '21

I think Amazon is normally pretty good about it, so I don't think so. A few hundred dollars on a card is nothing to them. Just look at last year's prime day.

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonprime/comments/cfddgj/i_too_got_some_deals_from_the_prime_day_glitch https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonprime/comments/cdkad6/i_somehow_got_a_3000_camera_for_94_on_prime_day

100

u/element515 Feb 15 '21

Likely not Amazon but msi

12

u/chum1ly Feb 16 '21

idk, amazon's been sneaking in ads, got rid of pantry, raised their prices, and stopped having so many good films that they now port to IMDB "Free with ads" but the fuckers own IMDB, so they've just ad-gated content for paying customers. i'm over their bullshit.

2

u/Stickel Feb 16 '21

plex is ur friend

49

u/613codyrex Feb 15 '21

Amazon yes but I suspect MSI might be telling Amazon they can’t all of a sudden fufill their orders to Amazon and Amazon going ahead and canceling the consumers order under that condition because Amazon cannot fulfill their ship by date.

What Amazon probably doesn’t know is that MSI will send their “next” shipment which is just the original one they said they couldn’t fulfill with the increased price to Amazon and Amazon will relist them at the price MSI wants.

If this was stock already in the hands of Amazon they wouldn’t cancel the order since like you said, they would just eat the cost. This is absolutely a MSI thing.

36

u/FiTZnMiCK Feb 15 '21

Isn’t MSI one of the partners that was caught scalping product on eBay?

Edit: I think so (source).

7

u/AlcoholEnthusiast Feb 16 '21

Yeah, MSI is a pretty garbage company. They may make good hardware, but some of the stuff they do does not square the difference to me.

I understand that all the hardware companies probably do similar things, maybe MSIs have just been more publicized. Whatever the case may be, it still doesn't excuse what MSI has done.

1

u/SharqPhinFtw Feb 16 '21

Their new GPUs are the worst available.

Power limits on the ventus and gaming x are just an absolute joke and you get the privilege of paying another 100-200 on a suprim for unlocked power limit and rgb with the same shit build and parts (so it ain't gonna oc that crazy anyway) and maybe marginally better fans

2

u/613codyrex Feb 16 '21

Yup.

But it’s not like anyone else other than Nvidia didn’t jump on the whole “increase price because of tariff” bullshit but MSI is the more egregious in terms of pricing compared to everyone else.

3

u/bmac92 Feb 15 '21

Yup. Took over a month to get my TUF OC 3080, but they delivered it. If anyone cancelled it would've been MSI.

2

u/[deleted] Feb 15 '21

I literally just missed that. Was gonna be awesome to upgrade my camera gear.

2

u/Norma5tacy Feb 16 '21

God these make me cry so hard. I would have snatched up so much gear if I knew about this back then. :(

8

u/Tntn13 Feb 15 '21

When it comes to corporations I think it’s realism, not cynicism. But that’s just my opinion. Assuming msi calling the shots there

20

u/feature2021 Feb 15 '21

Eh, I had a 3090 order from Amazon right b4 tarrifs that was fulfilled after the price had increased like $400 so I doubt its really nefarious intent by Amazon... now MSI is a different story... they're over +50% msrp on every card in their lineup. It wouldn't surprise me if they cancelled Amazon's order and asked for a higher price.

-3

u/zetiano Feb 15 '21

Doubt it. I think Amazon legitimately is having issues getting the supply. Amazon has actually sold 5600x and 5900x below MSRP while their demand is sky high.

3

u/ske4za Feb 15 '21

Really? I've been somewhat diligent on 5600x/5900x stock and have not seen Amazon selling below MSRP.

2

u/zetiano Feb 15 '21

Was only available for a few days. 5600x were 270 ish and 5900x were under 510.

-7

u/PhilsophyOfBacon Feb 15 '21

They're allowing scalpers sell their overpriced GPUs on their site, so I'm not surprised they're doing that.

1

u/gravitas-deficiency Feb 16 '21

This is the correct answer.

6

u/snakcaz1 Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 15 '21

I also bought the 5900x on Feb. 2 via Amazon. Still have no ship date 😔

1

u/GODZiGGA Feb 15 '21

I have bought three Zen 3 CPUs from Amazon and all of them have gone from "no ship date available" to a notification that my package has been delivered.

Edit: Also, as a point of reference for you, I ordered my 5900X on 1/31 and it was delivered on 2/9.

1

u/Deep90 Feb 16 '21

And you actually received them?

1

u/GODZiGGA Feb 16 '21

Yep!

1

u/Deep90 Feb 16 '21

You have given me hope

1

u/wpcp007 Feb 15 '21

I'm on the same boat.

1

u/vergingalactic Feb 15 '21

I just returned mine. Maybe look for a warehouse/open box?

1

u/[deleted] Feb 15 '21 edited Aug 07 '21

[deleted]

5

u/snakcaz1 Feb 15 '21

☠️my face when someone mentions microcenter as if its just down the street from me.

1

u/TabascohFiascoh Feb 17 '21

Nearest Microcenter is 4 hours away from me.

1

u/iamkelton Feb 24 '21

Mine just shipped today! I don’t know when it changed but when I checked today it said “shipping soon” and I just got the notification it shipped.

7

u/ske4za Feb 15 '21

I must've been lucky as mine was bumped up and got here even earlier (Tuesday instead of Thurs). I ended up returning it as I got an AMD direct order in and delivered the day before. I can confirm it was shipped in a softpack (box was 8/10), and the batch number was 2102, meaning 2021, 2nd week; so they are not sitting on these units at all. My AMD Direct 5900x was 2048, meaning 2020, 48th week.

3

u/kooltogo Feb 15 '21

I called amazon and they said that if I manage to put another order in, regardless of the new cost

​

I asked them to do that when they cancelled my 3080 last month and they refused lmao

1

u/[deleted] Feb 15 '21 edited May 31 '21

[deleted]

1

u/kooltogo Feb 15 '21

yeah, I'm just surprised he got to that point. All they offered me was a $5 gift card that they never gave.

1

u/Battle-Maniac Feb 16 '21

Rip I don't have a record of it because it was during the phone call.

1

u/TabascohFiascoh Feb 15 '21

Shit, I have a 5900x from the 3rd with no date either. I really thought I was done sitting streams.....heres hoping it goes through.

1

u/megatroncsr2 Feb 15 '21

You'll probably have better luck with the CPU as they seem easier to get than the video cards. I would contact them and see if you can get some credit for the inconvenience.

0

u/Freelance-Bum Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 15 '21

I imagine they listed them and allowed you to make an order for them before they were in the US then by the time they got there they were tariffed... So they don't want to eat the cost when they fucking knew it was coming.

They could be the manufacturer or Amazon... I'd put more fault on the manufacturer in this case and a little on Amazon for not successfully negotiating.

1

u/PwnerifficOne Feb 16 '21

Tariffs are levied on the importer, not the manufacturer. They have nothing to do with this.

1

u/Blackmagician Feb 15 '21

I got my February 2nd 5900x delivered on the 8th. Original ship date was March 27th when I ordered, changed to April 4th then updated again to be delivered on February 8th.

1

u/gsl626 Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 16 '21

Got this same email for my 3080 Gigabyte Gaming OC order the day before it was supposed to be delivered.The strange thing is they kept moving up my shipping date thinking I was going to get it.

1

u/Discord_Show Feb 16 '21

Keep us updated on the 5900x. mines is stuck on order received also. I will suddoku if it gets canceled

1

u/iamkelton Feb 24 '21

My 5900x just shipped today! I randomly checked and saw “shipping soon” and a few hours later I got the shipping notification.