Hello, On the Queue for the 3060 XC Black Gaming it says I was skipped, yet people around me have gotten them can anyone explain why?

I checked and there is nothing.

nickmitsu
Yeah I don't understand... the Google Doc on reddit shows people in December being notified for their 3080's. I signed up early October and haven't received one according to their site on MyEVGA. Howcome I was skipped??

Are you sure that the model they are being notified about is the exact same model as the one you are waiting for?

Totally_Not_A__RoboHello, On the Queue for the 3060 XC Black Gaming it says I was skipped, yet people around me have gotten them can anyone explain why?

Check your notifies page: https://www.evga.com/community/myNotifies.asp
What is the status? This is mine for example:
12G-P5-3655-KR     2/25/2021 9:29:54 AM PT    No
And it says "No".
 
If your status says "Yes" - check your email, try search. If you missed your buy window, then email to EVGA, explain them that you did not got notification, they usually can send new one.
And don't forget to use associate code to get discount!

EVGA is really good at making very closely named items that are not all the same item.
 
There are 4 models of water cooled 3080's, 2 models of the FTW series, and 3 models for the XC series. They are all tracked using their part numbers though.
 
For instance the part number 10G-P5-3883-KR  is only a single number different from one of the other models in the same line. They end in either 3881, 3883, or 3885.
 
It would be better if their part numbers actually included their model name in my opinion. In the case above, those part numbers are for the XC models.
 
Sadly, EVGA does not give us any information at all. They don't even care if we exist at this time. The queue was just a bandaid to solve the bot problem with the store.
 
EVGA is not putting in any effort to fulfill the queue. The economics of the world due to covid-19, scalpers, and the mining bubble is ultimately going to prevent every single person trying to get a video card for gaming at extreme levels. Because of this, EVGA will probably not even release a new series next year.
 
Me personally, I'm still using a regular 1080. I would love to get the 3080 FTW3 Ultra that I am in the queue for. But the queue has barely moved into the estimated 3rd day of orders in 6 months and I got on the list in early October.
 
The chances of me seeing my notify pop up this year is more than likely just not going to happen at all. If it takes 6 months for every 3 days the earliest time I might see it is 3 years from now. This makes the queue completely useless and ineffective.
 
This is where brand loyalty proves to be completely worthless. EVGA simply does not care if you buy their card or die to covid. They make more money selling their cards to Amazon and BestBuy where the bots can scoop them up as soon as they show up and get into the hands of scalpers to resell for 2 to 3 times the price.
 
Ignore any statement stating "things will balance out by" x time. It is a fabricated lie to give you a false sense of security in time. As long as mining is profitable there will not be a point in time that they will stop buying cards. We are not just talking 3 or 4 cards. There are mining groups running hundreds to thousands of cards in warehouses. When that bubble pops, then you will see the market crash with all those mining cards being rushed out the door to recoup what funds they can. Not one day before that will it improve due to the global demand being so high.

Fire-Soul
EVGA is really good at making very closely named items that are not all the same item.
 
There are 4 models of water cooled 3080's, 2 models of the FTW series, and 3 models for the XC series. They are all tracked using their part numbers though.
 
For instance the part number 10G-P5-3883-KR  is only a single number different from one of the other models in the same line. They end in either 3881, 3883, or 3885.
 
It would be better if their part numbers actually included their model name in my opinion. In the case above, those part numbers are for the XC models.
 
Sadly, EVGA does not give us any information at all. They don't even care if we exist at this time. The queue was just a bandaid to solve the bot problem with the store.
 
EVGA is not putting in any effort to fulfill the queue. The economics of the world due to covid-19, scalpers, and the mining bubble is ultimately going to prevent every single person trying to get a video card for gaming at extreme levels. Because of this, EVGA will probably not even release a new series next year.
 
Me personally, I'm still using a regular 1080. I would love to get the 3080 FTW3 Ultra that I am in the queue for. But the queue has barely moved into the estimated 3rd day of orders in 6 months and I got on the list in early October.
 
The chances of me seeing my notify pop up this year is more than likely just not going to happen at all. If it takes 6 months for every 3 days the earliest time I might see it is 3 years from now. This makes the queue completely useless and ineffective.
 
This is where brand loyalty proves to be completely worthless. EVGA simply does not care if you buy their card or die to covid. They make more money selling their cards to Amazon and BestBuy where the bots can scoop them up as soon as they show up and get into the hands of scalpers to resell for 2 to 3 times the price.
 
Ignore any statement stating "things will balance out by" x time. It is a fabricated lie to give you a false sense of security in time. As long as mining is profitable there will not be a point in time that they will stop buying cards. We are not just talking 3 or 4 cards. There are mining groups running hundreds to thousands of cards in warehouses. When that bubble pops, then you will see the market crash with all those mining cards being rushed out the door to recoup what funds they can. Not one day before that will it improve due to the global demand being so high.

Bingo...  miners are working directly with distributors too, buying large volumes of cards at a time.  I know this because I have a business partner who's part of a big mining group and they just installed almost 200 new cards in the last couple weeks.  He just put 5 3080s in his personal mining machine last week.  There's a whole ecosystem around this that goes so far beyond gamers and they're throwing large amounts of money at it because they can.
 
Between bots, miners, and small batches of retailers getting them, it's going to be a long time before there's enough supply to handle legit end users.  The only chance is to either own a bot, or some sort of queue/lottery and right now only Newegg and eVGA are doing the latter.
 
It's garbage.. but this is our reality currently.

Well they need to change the way they sell hardware so people can't buy with bots. I'm not sure how, but that's what needs to happen. Otherwise we'll be faced with this to some degree for every hot new hardware release. Even if it isn't mining hardware, the scalpers will suck them all up. I understand EVGA has obligation to their retailers, but at some point it needs to change.

Fire-Soul
 They don't even care if we exist at this time. The queue was just a bandaid to solve the bot problem with the store.
 

Cmon mate let's not exaggerate.  They definitely care we exist, because they only exist because we, their customers DO exist.   And yeah I'd rather a "bandaid" queue than what all the other 3080 resellers are doing, which is nothing.

GTXJackBauer

mech9t5
I don't know why some people rely on the google document self reported spreadsheet, which, more often than not, have errors.  The official status of the card is, as Cool GTX said above, is on the My Notifies in your EVGA account.

The spreadsheets are nothing more than people pushing them for monetization in hopes buyers use their associate codes.  They are full of errors and inaccuracies.  I said this from the beginning since the start that they're designed to sell high hopes and codes while not so great for EVGA since buyers who get sucked into these spreadsheets will get fed up and end up with a competitor's GPU.  If people just signed up and payed less attention till they got their notification and or email overtime, they would think less about it and move on while waiting for their GPU but the used car snake oil spreadsheet salesmen couldn't pass on the opportunity.  I could have done the same thing but felt it wasn't honest.

As for the safeguards, miners and every other non gamer will still get access to a GPU.  It's just the way it is.  What we're seeing is a slow down but it slows everyone else down as well.  It's a lose lose situation for the gamer.  The issue is a combination of bitcoin rising, unemployment from locks downs (rona) and gamers looking to upgrade all at the same time.  It was a perfect storm no one saw coming or maybe they did but it was too late to ramp up production or get their ducks in order.  If they (Nvidia) figured a way to fix that, it would get things moving again.  Think of toilet paper. (Facepalm, I know)

I have only checked the spreadsheets you are referring to twice. It has been 6 months from release. I was only 3 weeks late to getting on the list. I wasn't about to sign up onto a list to buy a specific video card until I know I can afford it. That being said, the truth is that very few cards are getting pushed through the queue.
 
Look at it this way. If EVGA actually cared about those of us dedicated and interested enough to be in their queue. Then they wouldn't leave us in the dark with zero information. If they wanted to give us 'hope' they would tell us regularly how many of x card are being diverted to the queue. The facts are very evident. At no time has EVGA done anything other than create a list so they could stop spending employee hours on bot sales. It has nothing to do with helping us. They have already admitted they sell cards from the queue to scalpers also because the queue does not prevent them from making numerous claims too. If they were really interested in those of us that are here for EVGA, then we wouldn't be in the dark. Instead EVGA is simply ignoring all of us.
 
It does not take a lot of effort to inform your customers. It does not take a lot of time to state how many cards we shipped out to the queue this week or this month. Nor does it take a lot of effort to say they have this many orders waiting to be fulfilled. The fact is, they are not spending any time at all to do any of this. This is the difference between treating your customers as a number instead of calling them by their name.

I agree that the spreadsheets are more often wrong than right and often lead to folks believing that they have been skipped.
 
I've tried to combat the errors inherent in the spreadsheet system with a standalone summary that is based on reporting that I do my best to verify before including it in my table: 
 
North American Notify Queue Summary
 
And, yes, all of this would be a lot easier if we received more transparency from EVGA. But such is our circumstances....
 
I hope the summary is helpful.
 
 

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now this is quality internet drama

GTXJackBauer

enewt
I agree that the spreadsheets are more often wrong than right and often lead to folks believing that they have been skipped.
 
I've tried to combat the errors inherent in the spreadsheet system with a standalone summary that is based on reporting that I do my best to verify before including it in my table: 
 
North American Notify Queue Summary
 
And, yes, all of this would be a lot easier if we received more transparency from EVGA. But such is our circumstances....
 
I hope the summary is helpful. 

Newt, haven't you made enough associate code sales to stop pumping this nonsense?  You're spreading misinformation.  You're only adding more turmoil to the equation and some aren't happy with EVGA because of these silly spread sheets like yours across the web as if it's a source of valuable information.  You've been selling high expectations getting people's hopes up with your inaccuracies along with a few others which by the way as you already stated and contradicted yourself by stating that you 'tried to combat the errors' when that's IMPOSSIBLE because you don't have the accurate data so please, stop with this nonsense. 

At the end of the day, it's self evident what you've been doing is promoting disinformation for monetization.  What ever it takes.  I figured you would have made enough sales to drop your nonsense but you still continue and even dropped a link for added measure.
 
I'll say this, if you actually believe in what you're doing, prove to us by removing all your Associate Code affiliation to all your spreadsheet posts.  I bet you wouldn't do it.

It's funny how you comment on how the Associate Code is being pushed by establishing a spreadsheet.  I agree that spreadsheets are only as accurate as the people who updates them correctly.  But with the Associates Codes, in large, flashy fonts at the signature (specifically indicating the 3000 series) and location (LMAO), being displayed, I find, quiet humorous.  Yes, I also have my Associates Code displayed as well, just like you, hoping that one will use it by being helpful to them in the forums.

Yeahh, I don't use the aforementioned spreadsheets and already have a card, but GTXJackBauer is the only user I've ever seen on here that made me audibly groan with all their advertisements.

Literal corporation-level marketing methods like "are you interested in getting 'x'? use this method to get up to 10% off all evga products!" and I'll bet you the defense is "well technically I never said 10% off a GPU, I said up to on all products and just coincidentally asked if the user was interested in getting a gpu".

Then there's his 30x0 thread where he once again mentions the 10% discount alongside links to nothing but GPUs, but I let this one slide because he technically includes an image of the discount showing GPUs are only at 3%. Then follows it with, wait for it, 32 store links with his associate code attached.

Then of course the advertisements in his signature AND his location.

Finally his spamming of his associate link on other threads which I actually thought was against the rules? It seems not.

Now despite all my criticisms above, if he makes money from it then good for him, and I generally approve of GTXJackBauer, usually enjoy his posts, and have never taken an issue with the post content aside from the spam. However, going around chastising other people because of associate codes is a bad look when your entire profile is basically 'I WILL DO ANYTHING (wink wink) IF YOU USE MY ASSOCIATE CODE'. I'm just mildly impressed that he's shown the restraint not to ask the admins to include it in his username.