kevinc313
Don't worry guys, since 95%+ of cards will be going to fake scalper accounts, you should have very much to keep track of.  Oh well.

enewt

Kevin115
I think we do not need to ask them if this is their first purchase from the 30 series queue, at least for the next few months, the reports will be first purchase only because they are prioritized. And when the rewind happens, you'll notice because the report timestamp will suddenly fall back several month. (Assuming they are not going to reopen the queue before fulfill all current registrations)

Agreed.  You said it better than I did.  

CraptacularOne
First off I'd like to say to enewt, great job for the community effort to try and make sense of the queue. Although moving forward I don't know how relevant or accurate any people's report will be since there seems to be sub queues now depending on whether or not it's your first notify or not. 
 
Secondly, all you people whining and complaining how this isn't fair with the new change despite some of you already have been able to purchase 1, 2 or even 3, 30 series cards, time to get over it. I know people that have been in these damn queues since LAST year who still haven't been called for ANY purchase. Yet you want to complain about not being able to get a 2nd or 3rd?  I'm glad EVGA is making these changes and taking money out of scalpers pockets. 
 
It's really "odd" that how every time we see a big movement in any of the queues that strangely I also see a huge influx of eBay listings for "Brand new EVGA 30XX" card with ridiculous markups. Coincidence? I think not 

Smithship
enewt, with one simple change they could fix all the long queues immediately. just change the text of the current plan to the following:
 
1. Accounts that have NOT received one notification to purchase an EVGA 30 series card yet as part of the queue will be prioritized.


before folks respond you have to actually THINK about it.

CraptacularOne
Toxic? Maybe, but I've never tried to win any popularity contests so I don't care. My opinion on the matter stands, I'm happy EVGA is trying to do something to get cards to people who haven't been able to buy one. 

drrck

kevinc313
Don't worry guys, since 95%+ of cards will be going to fake scalper accounts, you should have very much to keep track of.  Oh well.

Exactly, this change addresses nothing material and will only hurt the honest consumer.

skyline090
That went over your head. I'll make it easy for your and just ask: Are you in the queue?

kevinc313

CraptacularOne
It's really "odd" that how every time we see a big movement in any of the queues that strangely I also see a huge influx of eBay listings for "Brand new EVGA 30XX" card with ridiculous markups. Coincidence? I think not 

If course not.  The queue system is already flooded with scalpers and fake accounts.  I'd say at least 50% of queue cards have already gone to pro scalpers.  Thousands of them.  But the latest change will ensure that 95%+ of them go to scalpers.

kevinc313

CraptacularOne
It's really "odd" that how every time we see a big movement in any of the queues that strangely I also see a huge influx of eBay listings for "Brand new EVGA 30XX" card with ridiculous markups. Coincidence? I think not 

If course not.  The queue system is already flooded with scalpers and fake accounts.  I'd say at least 50% of queue cards have already gone to pro scalpers.  Thousands of them.  But the latest change will ensure that 95%+ of them go to scalpers.

z1nonly

kevinc313

CraptacularOne
It's really "odd" that how every time we see a big movement in any of the queues that strangely I also see a huge influx of eBay listings for "Brand new EVGA 30XX" card with ridiculous markups. Coincidence? I think not 

If course not.  The queue system is already flooded with scalpers and fake accounts.  I'd say at least 50% of queue cards have already gone to pro scalpers.  Thousands of them.  But the latest change will ensure that 95%+ of them go to scalpers.

With the old system, there was nothing stopping an average, individual, real human, gamer from scalping every card they get from the queue after they get a card in their own rig.

I would not be surprised if there there are people who did "noble" things with the extra cards they bought from the queue. I would also not be surprised if there are people who bought a card for their own rig and then chose to make money on other cards they were able to get there-after.

The old system allowed people to do either or even both.

kevinc313

z1nonly

kevinc313

CraptacularOne
It's really "odd" that how every time we see a big movement in any of the queues that strangely I also see a huge influx of eBay listings for "Brand new EVGA 30XX" card with ridiculous markups. Coincidence? I think not 

If course not.  The queue system is already flooded with scalpers and fake accounts.  I'd say at least 50% of queue cards have already gone to pro scalpers.  Thousands of them.  But the latest change will ensure that 95%+ of them go to scalpers.

With the old system, there was nothing stopping an average, individual, real human, gamer from scalping every card they get from the queue after they get a card in their own rig.

I would not be surprised if there there are people who did "noble" things with the extra cards they bought from the queue. I would also not be surprised if there are people who bought a card for their own rig and then chose to make money on other cards they were able to get there-after.

The old system allowed people to do either or even both.

Yes, some people were on the ball and bought a few cards to do with what they felt like.  
 
Now, for every real random person signed up, who has never been called once, there will be twenty FAKE SCALPER signups.  Maybe even fifty, or a hundred.

z1nonly

kevinc313

z1nonly

kevinc313

CraptacularOne
It's really "odd" that how every time we see a big movement in any of the queues that strangely I also see a huge influx of eBay listings for "Brand new EVGA 30XX" card with ridiculous markups. Coincidence? I think not 

If course not.  The queue system is already flooded with scalpers and fake accounts.  I'd say at least 50% of queue cards have already gone to pro scalpers.  Thousands of them.  But the latest change will ensure that 95%+ of them go to scalpers.

With the old system, there was nothing stopping an average, individual, real human, gamer from scalping every card they get from the queue after they get a card in their own rig.

I would not be surprised if there there are people who did "noble" things with the extra cards they bought from the queue. I would also not be surprised if there are people who bought a card for their own rig and then chose to make money on other cards they were able to get there-after.

The old system allowed people to do either or even both.

Yes, some people were on the ball and bought a few cards to do with what they felt like.  
 
Now, for every real random person signed up, who has never been called once, there will be twenty FAKE SCALPER signups.  Maybe even fifty, or a hundred.

This doesn't sound like you are challenging the point I made though.

The new system is better than the old system *if* the goal is more people getting a card.

Scalpers, bots, and miners are unchaged or may even have to do a little extra work with the new system vs the old system.

Darkmatterx76
But on a different note...
 
Notified: YES. Purchased: YES. First: YES. 12G-P5-3967-KR  (8:56:58 AM PT)
 
In regards to the change, I think it would have been better to do it for the next release, but I think it's a good move overall. Not so much for people who got a card as a stop-gap, or for someone else. :/
 
Used your code. Thanks for keeping this up enewt!
 
As for what to do with this change, what if you kept track of both first and multiple time purchases for a month or 2, just to give people a general idea of how far down the queue they are being pushed if they've already purchased a 3000 series card?