Decided to take a shot at a 3070. I see BB has implemented a type of waiting que that releases product periodically and gives you a chance to buy. To my delight, I waited and was eventually able to add a 3070 to my cart! I instantly checkout and I'm greeted by the "sorry we can't ship this product" message, so I go to look for store pickup, "sorry no stores within 3000 miles".....LOL?! I thought this was a one off but this happened to me 4 times with different cards in the cart. Since BB is the ONLY place you can get a FE card that makes it even more frustrating.

211 BestBuy 3070's being scalped on eBay already 

Keep trying. Hopefully you get one soon. 😄

RaggyD

jd63636
211 BestBuy 3070's being scalped on eBay already 

Yep. Their supposed bot protection doesn't do anything.

Probably because those are actual people that bought one (well some of them). I managed to grab one from Best Buy this morning for my son's pc. Will be delivered tomorrow.

I've all but given up on BestBuy.  Don't even bother checking anymore.  Then again that goes for just about all e-tailers.

Their purchase protection is just as terrible as Newegg's for launches. Newegg doesn't implement any of the good methods that would slow down people/bots significantly. Telling people they're limited to one of each model every 48 hours is basically the same thing as hiring a security guard that's 90 years old and can barely walk. They just want to make it look like they're trying. Whether their low effort is for shady reasons or not is anyone's guess.

Yeah I like Best Buy, but they are being really stupid about this.  They have brick and mortar stores.  The obvious and simple solution to make their real customers happy (as opposed to just scalpers) is to just sell cards in-store and not even take online orders.  It's not a perfect solution, but it would be better than what they're currently doing.
 
Edit: I've had some conversations with Best Buy employees, and they can't stand how this is being handled either.  They'd also like to get their hands on 3000 series gpu's and hate having to tell customers that all they can do is order them online since corporate decided not to allow any of them in their brick and mortar stores (at least in this part of the country).

OP you won the first round of RNG only to lose the second round.
 
Their new system is terrible.  They should at least let you breathe once it's in cart.  Just make it like concert tickets where you have 5 minutes to complete the purchase or something.

 
I've had the same issue ever since launch. I'll get a card in my cart right as they drop and then I'm stuck with the "not available in your area" and then just have a card sitting for 5-30 minutes until stock runs out and it drops from my cart.  Best Buy needs to fix this 

eknight76
I scored a 3080 FE yesterday.
 
Unfortunately best buy's new process is not that clear and it seems lost of people were confused as to how it works.  You actually need to hit the add to cart button twice.  Once and it will turn gray and says please wait.  It will turn yellow after a brief period, like 2 minutes, and then it will add to cart on the 2nd press.
 
The theory I heard is that bots will continue to refresh until a card is added to the cart.  That will be impossible with this new process as you need to wait out the first add to cart.  Essentially, if you keep F5ing, you'll never get out of the please wait phase.  That said, I have no idea how bots actually work, so take the scuttlebutt with a grain of salt.
 
Not the most elegant solution, but based on some of the stuff I'm seeing on message boards, more people got cards than usual. 

Unfortunately even if you manually add to cart on the 2nd press it's still not guaranteed to be in your cart.  I lost at least 10 through the checkout process after that.

eknight76
I scored a 3080 FE yesterday.
 
Unfortunately best buy's new process is not that clear and it seems lost of people were confused as to how it works.  You actually need to hit the add to cart button twice.  Once and it will turn gray and says please wait.  It will turn yellow after a brief period, like 2 minutes, and then it will add to cart on the 2nd press.
 
The theory I heard is that bots will continue to refresh until a card is added to the cart.  That will be impossible with this new process as you need to wait out the first add to cart.  Essentially, if you keep F5ing, you'll never get out of the please wait phase.  That said, I have no idea how bots actually work, so take the scuttlebutt with a grain of salt.
 
Not the most elegant solution, but based on some of the stuff I'm seeing on message boards, more people got cards than usual. 

Even worse, I kept hitting the add to cart button, only to get the "due to high demand, we require a second step" message at the top, but it did nothing else and was I getting pissed off at the lack of an explantion. Then it hit me to try another browser, and that's when I found out... their damn wait a few minutes to hit the add to cart button again code DOESN'T WORK IN FIREFOX!!!!!! WHAT. THE. F@#$!!! When I switched to Edge (which really pained me to do...) and my phone, it properly changed the button to the gray "please wait" with the pop-up bubble explaining how the process works. Neither of those displayed at all in Firefox. So I lost the first five minutes due to a broken website code. After I figured that out, I was able to get it into my cart several times, but each time upon checkout it would say it's no longer available for shipping, or the page would simply freeze up and not load, and then it would simply be gone from my cart when I refreshed.

Locutus494

eknight76
I scored a 3080 FE yesterday.
 
Unfortunately best buy's new process is not that clear and it seems lost of people were confused as to how it works.  You actually need to hit the add to cart button twice.  Once and it will turn gray and says please wait.  It will turn yellow after a brief period, like 2 minutes, and then it will add to cart on the 2nd press.
 
The theory I heard is that bots will continue to refresh until a card is added to the cart.  That will be impossible with this new process as you need to wait out the first add to cart.  Essentially, if you keep F5ing, you'll never get out of the please wait phase.  That said, I have no idea how bots actually work, so take the scuttlebutt with a grain of salt.
 
Not the most elegant solution, but based on some of the stuff I'm seeing on message boards, more people got cards than usual. 

Even worse, I kept hitting the add to cart button, only to get the "due to high demand, we require a second step" message at the top, but it did nothing else and was I getting pissed off at the lack of an explantion. Then it hit me to try another browser, and that's when I found out... their damn wait a few minutes to hit the add to cart button again code DOESN'T WORK IN FIREFOX!!!!!! WHAT. THE. F@#$!!! When I switched to Edge (which really pained me to do...) and my phone, it properly changed the button to the gray "please wait" with the pop-up bubble explaining how the process works. Neither of those displayed at all in Firefox. So I lost the first five minutes due to a broken website code. After I figured that out, I was able to get it into my cart several times, but each time upon checkout it would say it's no longer available for shipping, or the page would simply freeze up and not load, and then it would simply be gone from my cart when I refreshed.

Wow that is terrible.  I think best buy is doing their best, but sounds like this needed a little more testing.  Like the idea, but needed better implementation.
 
I will say that I have way more respect for Amazon.  Apparently having a smooth online experience is not easy to do, because everyone seems to fail at it.  Not sure if they're doing anything about bots, but at least I don't see the website breaking. 

Yep that's what I did several times yesterday. I would get the item in my cart but then for some reason no pickup and can't ship