tshalev

enewt

tshalev
There is such a thing as too cautious... and I kind of resent claims that the spreadsheet information is "erroneous"; I manually update it multiple times a day, and clean up any errors, if there are any. I also validate the information with users who report back, so you can be sure that at most points in the day, it is completely correct. As it stands, 3897 is now indeed at 9/20, I personally communicated with the user who reported this. It is no less accurate than the summary sheet (which is also much appreciated, by the way), and simply offers a more granular look at the queue which is nicely complemented by enewt's summary.

 
Absolutely, one can be too cautious -- and, I suppose in this context, to that charge I will plead no lo contendere.
 
For clarity, what I said was "Too often the information on the spreadsheets has been found to be erroneous (it is almost daily)." It is not always erroneous. If we are talking about the same spreadsheets (I know there are a few out there), then I can say in the last week or two the team handling them has gotten better about cleaning them up. But, most recently (yesterday), there were multiple sheets that had bad reports (I have not checked today), and too often I have found in the past that bad data on Thursday night or Friday night might get corrected by the following Monday or Tuesday (allowing for multiple days of weekend confusion about whether folks were skipped)...sometimes it stretches longer (I've seen bad reports dated ten days prior to the then-current day I viewed the sheets). Not everybody has to be as anal about this stuff as I do -- but I'm just one dude and I spend time each weeknight trying to make sure I am not misleading folks with what I make public...whereas some of those spreadsheets have whole teams of folks working on them.   
 
I do not mean to offend or demean the efforts of you or the team handling the spreadsheets (some folks get value from them). And I will try to temper my frustration about them going forward. However, the erroneous reports on the sheets result in regular inquiries to these forums, to me (and others) via PMs and to JacobF via Twitter. Whatever you and your team can do to reduce the number of erroneous reports (or at least the amount of time they remain "live" on the sheets), that would be greatly appreciated by me (and I assume others). Thank you for the efforts in creating and maintaining the sheets -- some members of the community derive value from viewing the incomplete data set of registrants; I am just not one of them (with the exception of the Elite-limited KPE sheet which I do maintain but solely edit (i.e., third parties cannot edit the data)).

Of course, I understand. I definitely prefer to look at your summary when I want to get a quick idea of where the queue is at. Sometimes, like when you know how many hours you have till your spot but not how many people are in that actual queue, it can be helpful to look at the spreadsheet... for example, I thought I was pretty close for the hybrid cards, but a look at the spreadsheet showed me just how wrong I was . Didn't realise how many people signed up between 9am and 9:05 am...

kram36

enewt
As you may recall, the HCs "auto-notify" button went live for approximately 25 minutes or so back in November.

Nope.
 
I guess the people running the queue spreadsheet had no idea either as none of the HC cards are listed in their queue spreadsheet. I will see if they will add the HC to the spreadsheet and hopefully we'll see who got in on this 25 min auto notify.
 
Strike that, they do have a HC spreadsheet list, it's a completely different spreadsheet then the air cooled cards. However looking at that spreadsheet it shows people got in the queue on several different days?

enewt
The spreadsheets are wrong. Those entries were meant for the Hybrids. I am 100% confident that the HC autonotify buttons have never relit after that initial day’s limited window.

kaytrimtv
Thanks for keeping the list as up to date as you can eNewt

oletorius
Thank you, enewt, for keeping up your good work! I look at your summary every night.

Lebon14
So... there's this idea that popped in my head tonight.
So, let's say there's five 3897 that arrived to be distributed to the queue. The first 4 would go to the first 4 next people in queue like normal. However, the last one would go in a shuffle with the remaining people of the queue. The advantage of this is to keep the morale high for those that joined very late like myself. HOWEVER, if there are 3 or less cards, there won't be a shuffle and the queue order takes priority, to be fair. The only issue I see is really how to handle to notification between somebody that just happen its turn and somebody that won the raffle.
 
Rate my idea?

Womble560
I have just signed up to become a EVGA ELITE Member after buying multiple items from EVGA over the years and was informed i could now join. I have also got my name down for notification on a RTX graphics card. Do Elite Members get proffered status when to be informed of when they are in stock. Just asking  

AdemOX
Just saw a tweet from Jacob saying that EU is getting notifications on Monday!