Mscott0566
That’s actually not the worst deal I’ve seen on eBay, and for a hydro copper that you can boost and water cool, I think that’s legit.

I also think it’s legit to cancel notifies once you’re out of the game too. I plan to as soon as I get my hands on a card. Whenever my luck changes.

cmatt0991
So I was able to get Elite Membership and I did the whole NEW member prize that got me 20% off coupon... I was hoping to use it but I wont be getting a notify anytime soon and was wondering if its allowed to give my coupon code away. So whoever responds to this with the best answer and wants the code ill send it to you 20% off. It expires after 90 days its been maybe half that. 

Eric99
 
I stand corrected. Watch for Best Buy drops, AMD Drops, enter Newegg shuffle. You can get cards on eBay for close to retail. Maybe I have just been lucky lately....

drewski989
OK broad brush I am about to paint with, this is a general observation and may not apply to everyone, only the vast majority :D 
 
I tend to agree with Eric99, as I have said in posts before, it is up to YOU to secure a card and if you have not yet, you either have not put in the time required (which I know not everyone has to sacrifice, but that's not a scalper's, miner's, or company's fault), have been overly picky, or simply stubborn/lazy.  Married with 2 kids working a salaried IT position, and I am near 20 cards that I have obtained with 0 tricks, just some substantial effort and a tiny bit of luck.  The people I have sold them to, for 0 profit, are usually the ones not willing to put in the work to get them.  The constant crying and blaming and tantrums get SO OLD here.
 
For those of you in Europe, get over it, EVGA EU queue is a dry well, keep your queue spot and focus efforts elsewhere.  EVGA is not capable of filling the favored US queue, the EU queue is going to be much worse.  Maybe EU retailers are not getting cards, but that's not an EVGA queue problem.  Now tell me about how that's so unfair, while I pay some medical bills.
 
For those of you in the US, just knock it off.  Get on discord, hunt in packs, camp out at Best Buy, put in the work.  I help mod a couple discords where other members donate "extra" cards for sale.  We sell at least 2-3 per week at cost to members there.  Only rules are the mods decide who is most deserving, but a lot of you would have to check the constant salt, negativity, and blame at the door and behave.  My guess is you would rather pout in the corner until someone brings you the card you want for the price you want on a silver platter.
 
Long story short, cards are out there, do not only have a single lead like the queue, diversify and you will be successful.  If you are waiting for a specific card at a specific price, just know that a million other people are probably gunning for that same card, so you have to OUTWORK them.  Crying is not "working", crying might work on parents, not retailers and AIBs.
 
As always, good luck and fast queues y'all.

kraade
Scalping is not done but the number of cards you could turn for a profit is considerably smaller today it was than just 2 weeks ago. These pressures should help to ease the situation.

quantuniversenewegg shuffle starts in 25min its couple 3080ti good luck to true gamers in needs,

LeChuck81
Are you telling me you've been able to buy all of those VGAs at MSRP or very close to it?

kram36

LeChuck81
Are you telling me you've been able to buy all of those VGAs at MSRP or very close to it?

EVGA RTX 3070 at MSRP from Micro Center.
MSI RTX 3070 at MSRP from Best Buy.
EVGA RTX 3060 XC Gaming at MSRP from EVGA.
EVGA RTX 3090 Kingpin Hybrid at MSRP from EVGA.
EVGA RTX 3080 TI FTW3 at MSRP from Newegg Shuffle.
EVGA RTX 3080 TI FTW3 at MSRP from EVGA.
EVGA RTX 3080 TI XC3 Air Cooled at MSRP from EVGA.
EVGA RTX 3080 TI XC3 Hybrid at MSRP from EVGA. Passed on this card because of the bad performance the XC3 cards were having. Beta Bios Testing seems the performance issues has been fixed on these cards.
EVGA RTX 3080 TI XC3 Hydro Copper at MSRP from EVGA.

sturm375

drewski989
OK broad brush I am about to paint with, this is a general observation and may not apply to everyone, only the vast majority :D 
 
I tend to agree with Eric99, as I have said in posts before, it is up to YOU to secure a card and if you have not yet, you either have not put in the time required (which I know not everyone has to sacrifice, but that's not a scalper's, miner's, or company's fault), have been overly picky, or simply stubborn/lazy.  Married with 2 kids working a salaried IT position, and I am near 20 cards that I have obtained with 0 tricks, just some substantial effort and a tiny bit of luck.  The people I have sold them to, for 0 profit, are usually the ones not willing to put in the work to get them.  The constant crying and blaming and tantrums get SO OLD here.
 
For those of you in Europe, get over it, EVGA EU queue is a dry well, keep your queue spot and focus efforts elsewhere.  EVGA is not capable of filling the favored US queue, the EU queue is going to be much worse.  Maybe EU retailers are not getting cards, but that's not an EVGA queue problem.  Now tell me about how that's so unfair, while I pay some medical bills.
 
For those of you in the US, just knock it off.  Get on discord, hunt in packs, camp out at Best Buy, put in the work.  I help mod a couple discords where other members donate "extra" cards for sale.  We sell at least 2-3 per week at cost to members there.  Only rules are the mods decide who is most deserving, but a lot of you would have to check the constant salt, negativity, and blame at the door and behave.  My guess is you would rather pout in the corner until someone brings you the card you want for the price you want on a silver platter.
 
Long story short, cards are out there, do not only have a single lead like the queue, diversify and you will be successful.  If you are waiting for a specific card at a specific price, just know that a million other people are probably gunning for that same card, so you have to OUTWORK them.  Crying is not "working", crying might work on parents, not retailers and AIBs.
 
As always, good luck and fast queues y'all.

I must be one of those outliers then. I've put in a [bleep]-ton of effort, discord groups, youtube alerts, twitter alerts, distill alerts. However I bet I have missed 2-3 times more drops due to working during a drop than I have been able to participate in. If I were to camp a drop while at work, I'd be fired. getting near 100 attempts at Newegg, zero results. Said it before, but bears repeating, those with all the luck tend to not be able to comprehend not having any luck.

sturm375

drewski989
OK broad brush I am about to paint with, this is a general observation and may not apply to everyone, only the vast majority :D 
 
I tend to agree with Eric99, as I have said in posts before, it is up to YOU to secure a card and if you have not yet, you either have not put in the time required (which I know not everyone has to sacrifice, but that's not a scalper's, miner's, or company's fault), have been overly picky, or simply stubborn/lazy.  Married with 2 kids working a salaried IT position, and I am near 20 cards that I have obtained with 0 tricks, just some substantial effort and a tiny bit of luck.  The people I have sold them to, for 0 profit, are usually the ones not willing to put in the work to get them.  The constant crying and blaming and tantrums get SO OLD here.
 
For those of you in Europe, get over it, EVGA EU queue is a dry well, keep your queue spot and focus efforts elsewhere.  EVGA is not capable of filling the favored US queue, the EU queue is going to be much worse.  Maybe EU retailers are not getting cards, but that's not an EVGA queue problem.  Now tell me about how that's so unfair, while I pay some medical bills.
 
For those of you in the US, just knock it off.  Get on discord, hunt in packs, camp out at Best Buy, put in the work.  I help mod a couple discords where other members donate "extra" cards for sale.  We sell at least 2-3 per week at cost to members there.  Only rules are the mods decide who is most deserving, but a lot of you would have to check the constant salt, negativity, and blame at the door and behave.  My guess is you would rather pout in the corner until someone brings you the card you want for the price you want on a silver platter.
 
Long story short, cards are out there, do not only have a single lead like the queue, diversify and you will be successful.  If you are waiting for a specific card at a specific price, just know that a million other people are probably gunning for that same card, so you have to OUTWORK them.  Crying is not "working", crying might work on parents, not retailers and AIBs.
 
As always, good luck and fast queues y'all.

I must be one of those outliers then. I've put in a [bleep]-ton of effort, discord groups, youtube alerts, twitter alerts, distill alerts. However I bet I have missed 2-3 times more drops due to working during a drop than I have been able to participate in. If I were to camp a drop while at work, I'd be fired. getting near 100 attempts at Newegg, zero results. Said it before, but bears repeating, those with all the luck tend to not be able to comprehend not having any luck.

seadoge8
I just removed all my notifies except for the 3090's. I got a water cooled 3080 ti off e-bay last night. The closest SKU was the 3967 where I was 2 min 11 sec away. If my notice come up for the 3090 I'll buy it and sell the EVGA 3080 ti XC3 Hydro Copper on the for sale forum. Good luck everyone.

LeChuck81

johcamp21

LeChuck81
Patiently waiting for BB, MC and/or NE to open in the EU, let alone in Italy. While waiting, I'm camping discord, telegram and whatever you can think of, nothing (useful for me, as stated in the previous post, I have to have the VGA to be into specific measures or it won't fit my case) even remotely near MSRP. I'm also camping thursdays' AMD drops, no luck as of now. As sturm375 says, "those with all the luck tend to not be able to comprehend not having any luck" in the VGA field.

I believe i would change the case if it were me.

I'm actually starting to ponder the idea of moving my Mini-ITX build into my old MasterCase Maker 5 for the time being. At least, I could use my RX 590 till I can get a compatible GPU with my Sentry 2.0. It's just that I got so into SFF I can't stand that big case anymore… ^^;
 
Well, I do say so, but my next beefy build will be into a Graphite Power Mac G4 (I already got a non-functioning one), modded to accomodate a custom loop for both CPU and GPU. THAT will be some challenge ahead of me, considering it will also be my first custom loop! :D