Phatrabbit12
I don't understand why EVGA doesn't just fill their entire queue first instead of sending them to Micro Centers/Newegg/Amazon.  You have 100+ at some Micro Centers.... 

They need to take care of the people buying direct first.  Its the retailers that are selling to the scalpers.  This reminds me of the sh$t paper shortage.  

z999z3mystorys

Nereus

z999z3mystorys
I Got my notify e-mail for the 3080 ftw3 ultra hybrid at 10 AM PST  10G-P5-3898-KR Dec. 1st, a week ahead of what I was expecting, and missed the window to buy. I e-mailed support, but don't know if I got the correct e-mail address, or how likely they are to give a bit a leway with the 8 hour time limit. I'm hoping I can get a replay soon, don't want to spend 2 days wondering if I'm totally out of luck or not.
 
Kind of wishing a set an alarm to wake and check my e-mail every 6 hours or so.
 
Anyone had any luck getting a little extra time from support, and if so, how/where did you e-mail them?

Zero chance of you getting an extension I'm afraid. Seen a few people miss their notification, and EVGA said no to any extension request, which is fair enough. 8 hour window is reasonable, it was originally 3 hours which was harsh so at least they increased it. Bummer that you missed it. Even a week out I was feverishly checking my emails constantly, and aware that they only sent them out during their business hours in CA so that narrowed down the window an email might arrive each day. All I can suggest is put yourself back in the notification queue, eventually it will come up again.
 
 
 

I'm getting conflicting info on this, have any links or reference to people who have gone through this or tried?

Reply to the invite to purchase email and indicate your preference to purchase. Then call customer service and ask for a new purchase link to be sent. If that doesn’t work tweet @EVGA_JacobF. You’ve waited...you want to purchase...you deserve your card. Please do it now. After a 24 hour period, it is a tougher story to tell. Good luck!

Edit: don’t call until after 9 am PT...when they open.

Urobulus

evgaboyd
yeah, I notified on 9/22 and still waiting for a glimpse on the 3080 FTW3 Ultra

Same date for me here: since the past couple of weeks I was expecting to receive my card maybe in January/February of 2021 but at the abysmal rate this card has been dropping for the past 2-3 weeks it seems that all they focus on now is everything is but that (3070s/3090s/3060ti) and I'm not even expecting to receive my card anymore before at least next summer now, if I don't give up before and just say screw it (which I'm about to do soon at this rate, just tired or this whole circus).
 
I know we're supposed to be patient and everything but this is just ridiculous now, it shouldn't be this complicated and take that laughably long to be able to have a card even with the pandemic going on. And with the queue system we have here EVGA should focus on that first and foremost before giving us the finger and supplying every single store out here, which are just scooped up by those waste-of-skin scalpers.
 
Yes I'm seriously annoyed this morning because the whole thing is downright ridiculous now, and EVGA is just as culprit as nVidia for managing the situation very poorly (stock allocations I mean, not making the queue here a priority over anything else).

 
 
I agree 100%

nrmazloo

Shoklen

castrator86
I'm still waiting on a notification and I signed up at 6:35AM PST yesterday... I don't think the product page was even up much earlier than that!!

No word yet and I signed up at 6:05am yesterday... Appears the drop hasn't happened yet...

I believe EVGA starts their notification emails at 9:00am Pacific.

ahhhh okay, fantastic :)

cmon, now that we are almost past 9/17 lets have a couple big drops push us a few days.... 9/26 is taking forever to show up

whatisvalis
Well Best Buy seem to be releasing in a more balanced way, but it's pick up only. Will wait my turn in the que.

Yeah, but it sucks...  I got a 3060 Ti FE in my cart only to get to the store selection and get told there is no store pickup available within 250 miles of me.  So it appears that they are only sending X number per store or region or something.  :(

Hey now!  I successfully ordered the 3080 XC3 Ultra from BestBuy! Pickup on Dec. 9th.  

nrmazloo
Hey now!  I successfully ordered the 3080 XC3 Ultra from BestBuy! Pickup on Dec. 9th.  

Trade with my brandnew ftw3 ultra 3080 pls?

Same boat here. Thought I had one, got excited, got wrecked 😢😫

Flint, is that better or worse than getting to the payment screen, clicking the purchase button, only to then be told it isnt available within 250 miles?  I was there twice this morning during that drop... once for a 6800xt and once for the MSI Ventus.  I would be super happy with either one

well same as spigini had the nvidia 3060 ti at checkout from Best Buy and closest store was 190 miles away pickup for the 10th only. Talked to one of the best buy people and they the closest store to me that would be available for pickup is 2 and half hours away one way. So nope will wait for evga not driving for 5 hours to go pick it up when I can wait and have it shipped to me. I want to upgrade from my old 980 but I have waited for almost 6 years to get a new card and am only upgrading because I built a new computer back in June.
 
Thanks EVGA for putting the queue in place for your cards

mpineda1110
notified 9/18 10:50pm on all 3080 cards except 3080 ftw3 gaming, any idea where we are at now?

 
Happy 3060TI Launch Day!
 
To...celebrate?!?...the occasion, here is last night's queue summary table...presented to you now with more 3060TIs (or at least rows so that we can track them). 
 
As of 5:30 pm PT last night, this is where the queues stand (bolded font represents movement from Monday night’s summary; italicized parentheticals calculate the length of the movement).  
 
     Card                                 SKU                      Auto-Notify Date/Time 

     Ultra
     3090 FTW3 Ultra               3987                     10/06/2020 21:36:58 
     3090 XC3 Ultra                 3975                     10/05/2020 20:52:00     
     3080 FTW3 Ultra               3897                     09/17/2020 21:02:00 
     3080 XC3 Ultra                 3885                     09/17/2020 21:54:24   
     3070 FTW3 Ultra               3767                     10/29/2020 06:01:27       
     3070 XC3 Ultra                 3755                     10/29/2020 06:13:53
     3060 Ti FTW3 Ultra           3667                     12/01/2020 00:00:00        
 
     Gaming
     3090 FTW3 Gaming           3985                     09/24/2020 12:38:00
     3090 XC3 Gaming             3973                     09/24/2020 00:00:00
     3080 FTW3 Gaming           3895                     09/16/2020 00:00:00
     3080 XC3 Gaming             3883                     09/16/2020 11:01:20
     3070 XC3 Gaming             3753                     09/29/2020 00:00:00
     3060 Ti XC3 Gaming         3667                     12/01/2020 00:00:00
 
     Black
     3090 XC3 Black                3971                      09/24/2020 00:00:00 
     3080 XC3 Black                3881                      09/16/2020 14:33:48 (00:31:09)    
     3070 XC3 Black                3751                      10/29/2020 06:09:41 
 
Jacob was nice enough to pop in Tuesday afternoon and give us a bit of a roadmap (thanks again!)...this week EVGA intends to drop the following models to the queues:
 
      3080s
           - XC3 Black (the queues received a drop Tuesday...hopefully we get more than stragglers the rest of the week)
           - XC3 Ultra
           - FTW3 Ultra
 
     3070s
           - XC3 Ultra
 
In addition, the waterlogged Hybrids should also make an appearance this week.  As they do so, if you are still interested in them but not yet in their queues, remember to periodically check in to see if those cards' auto-notify button has made a return engagement -- those buttons are likely to reappear in the next week or so.
 
 
Good luck today!

Currently have a MSI 3070 Ventus in my Best Buy cart but I really don't want it.  Not a full backplate, and the backplate that is on it is not metal.  And its MSI, blah!  Nothing is within 250 miles of me besides this card.

Flintheart Glomgold
A slight rant:
Just missed out on the 3080 XC Ultra drop. Even though I have it all set up on my phone to click and buy Best Buy decided it would be a good time to ask for a verification code by e-mail which took 3 minutes to hit my inbox. After that it said "sold out" and no store nearby for pick-up.
 
ending rant - ignore as I needed to vent.

Aww man, that's just rude.  
 

" Jacob was nice enough to pop in Tuesday afternoon and give us a bit of a roadmap (thanks again!)...this week EVGA intends to drop the following models to the queues:
       3080s
           - XC3 Black (the queues received a drop Tuesday...hopefully we get more than stragglers the rest of the week)
           - XC3 Ultra
           - FTW3 Ultra
      3070s
           - XC3 Ultra"
 
And what a surprise, no XC3 Gaming. Such crap. If they weren't planning on filling the queues, then why in the world would they have it as an option? Everyone wants to praise the EVGA system but honestly its no better than the roll of the dice every time a card drops for 3 seconds on Newegg or Best Buy.