I'm surprised Amazon doesn't do something like that for Prime members on brand new limited supply computer hardware.
 
 

RushXTC
Question... Why?
 
So you can say you had it before anyone else?? Kind of weird, To be honest.

 
You've posted on here 6500+ times and you need to ask why someone wants to preorder a video card? That's kind of weird.

I want to upgrade an EVGA GTX960, now that's my one evga product currently, maybe that doesn't even make me eligible for my hypothetical customer loyalty program, but like I said, I'm deliberately not loyal because no company gives me any incentive to be. And all their hardware, at the end of the day, is functionally interchangeable. 
 
Now if EVGA said hey, if you own a 2015+ EVGA Card and 2015+ Motherboard and you register them, you're in our loyalty program and can deposit $500 today to reserve a 1080TI preorder, once models/prices are available you'll be able to pay the difference and EVGA guarantees to fulfill all customer loyalty shipments before anyone else, then I would be a happy EVGA customer. No checking 10 different retailers every day, no dealing with random reddit pages that try to track every retailers stock, no launch day nonsense. Just take my money and ship me the card in whatever the fairest order is, if I'm not in batch 1, that's perfectly fine with me.
 
Not sure why these vendors don't want my money!

ChoWZa

RushXTC
Question... Why?
 
So you can say you had it before anyone else?? Kind of weird, To be honest.

 
You've posted on here 6500+ times and you need to ask why someone wants to preorder a video card? That's kind of weird.

What does post count have to do with knowledge? I've seen guys jump onto this forum and have 6500+ posts in 3 months by spamming meaningless threads like the counting game.
 
Seems like your upset with their step-up program since you are out of the 90 day step-up period... Cause they actually all ready do what you are complaining about if you have a card that is eligible for their step-up program. I think you could be onto something like a step-up program time extension for a little more money, just like they offer extended warranties. It could be interesting if you could pay like $10 more and have your step-up eligibility extended 3-6 months.
 
EVGA does all kinds of stuff to gain customer loyalty. Early adopters usually get screwed on is the free games that come with video cards, they almost never come with a game... but a few months down the road when there are newer models of the card out. They come with a package of games at the same cost or sometimes less. I've seen EVGA extend game offers to early adopters that have had their cards for 6+ months because they wanted to do something good for their customers. I've seen them step up and offer GTX 970 FTW owners an extension to their step-up program to get the newer revision model.

Evga customer service alone has made my mind up as far as graphics cards go. I am half tempted to try another EVGA motherboard but not sure i want to go down that road. 
 
There customer service with there GPU is pretty amazing. I am STILL running 580 classified ultra hydro coppers and had one that came back from rma. only one issue and they handled it perfectly. Cannot say enough good things as far as that goes. I would much rather have someone helpful on the other end of the phone if i for some reason had an issue then a company that is going to blame me and not help out. 

At various times, I've had two old EVGA video cards fail after years of use- seriously, they were like 5 years old. EVGA replaced them both with better cards and ZERO hassle- not even a blink. That has impressed me more than just about any vendor I've ever bought from. I don't think that EVGA still does the lifetime warranty thing, even so, I will always buy their brand. It's that kind of thing and not stupid sales gimmicks that inspire loyalty.

I am loyal to the cheapest price for best performance.

ChoWZa
I still don't see why EVGA cards are better than an ASUS Strix, or any other card. If they include a game that no one else does that's cool I suppose but I don't know if that would ever be a reason I'd take card a over card b. I like the look of hydro and it's nice to have a 'plug and play' water cooled card I'll probably end up getting one. What is my incentive to also buy an EVGA board, power supply, case? If only they gave me the incentive of just letting me preorder their new hardware first? It's just bad business. It's fine though I'll just keep doing a distributed build so I don't give any single company too much.
 
(When I say "me" I mean the collective EVGA customer base, so resist the trolling)

Good thing I'm an individual and never agreed to your hypothetical social contract that you claim everyone is privy to.

Im pretty much sold on EVGA in regards to GPU's.  Can I get better pricing from MSI, ASUS and others?  Absolutely.  But I'll stick with the company who provides the best service if things ever go sideways.   

When it comes to other components such as motherboards, PSU's etc, I tend to shop around and look for what fits my needs, wants and budget.   

RushXTC
I think companies would lose more customers if they allowed "Loyal" (Or so they say) customers to pre-order and then the stock runs out and they have to delay the public release.
 
Than they would lose if they uhh.... don't implement it at all!

They'll lose money by selling out their product to their customers instead of the public? Someone didn't think that through.

yes,they would possibly lose money...in the future sales.When a customer new or old comes back to find they have zero chance to buy it now ,but can wait till whenever.  The customer can then also choose some place where they can BUY IT now and not wait because the stock is sold out already on launch day or soon after because the vendor allowed pre-sales .Like i said it sounds nice but in the end its not in a businesses best interest long term when the items your selling continuously are in limited supply to begin with.

Hillguy

ChoWZa

RushXTC
I think companies would lose more customers if they allowed "Loyal" (Or so they say) customers to pre-order and then the stock runs out and they have to delay the public release.
Than they would lose if they uhh.... don't implement it at all!

They'll lose money by selling out their product to their customers instead of the public? Someone didn't think that through.

We the public are their customers 

I know you're trolling but no, not all the public are existing EVGA customers.

If you think putting $500 into a website is a good idea, I think you are wrong. The site would become a target of hacking and other attacks trying to take advantage of that. There would also be claims of people depositing money when they hadn't, and all sorts of other deception and lies.

What happens if the site crashes and loses track of those that actually deposit money? Sure, they could back up the records, but then people would make claims they did or didn't spend their funds..


Evga bucks, that's my deposit toward a preorder. Save them up, and use them when the time comes to pre-order. No cash necessary. There is folding to earn bucks, blue ribbons, and the affiliate program. Even the bucks programs has had people attempt ti abuse the system when the numbers for folding show up wrong and people don't actually earn the bucks.. When they are found to have abused that, they lose those bucks without a second chance to get them back for that month.

Of there is a way to abuse the system, people will find it and people will abuse it.

I have had multiple times where bucks were accidentally refunded or double refunded after a cancelled sale backseat of where I was living, and every time I alerted EVGA to have it corrected. There are people that would take the free bucks and not say a word, and when caught, would complain that it wasn't their fault and shouldn't lose the credit.


EVGA has historical records to go by when it comes to how many need to be produced. If they really wanted to find out how many, they could easily set a poll and give the options of definitely ordering, possibly ordering, considering ordering and so on. This doesn't require money.

Sometimes it makes better business sense to not cater to every customer's wishes. The customer is not always right.

kaninja
Sometimes it makes better business sense to not cater to every customer's wishes. The customer is not always right.

Unfortunately for your statement, refusing to sell more to existing customers will never be right. Lol.