Any chance EVGA is looking to implement a queue system for purchasing the 30 series.  Make it to where anyone who wants one can purchase the item then as their number comes up it will be shipped to them.  Imagine getting in line then as your number comes up your product is sent to you.  This would be incredibly helpful to the customer base.  I can't imagine staying on EVGA pages constantly refreshing for months to attempt to beat a bot and get a card as stock comes in.  Right now even though I was ready on day one I'm no closer to getting one than any other person who wants one in the future.  This is the system that SecretLab used to purchase my chair and I knew up front that while I had to wait for it as soon as it was my turn I got my product.  For clarification when i say pay up front it won't be a hold you fully pay for it then just wait for the arrival.
 
What was the most frustrating is I was in queue with the item in my cart for a full hour trying to buy it before it finally errored to the point where it cleared my cart and I couldn't get a card.  A queue system would have resolved this issue.  It would also massively handicap the reseller's on eBay.  I want to pay 1799 for the card not 3999 on eBay.

And the fact that evga has still yet to apologize disgust me!

I agree I don't think they need to apologize but just work harder to do better.  The question they should ask themselves is "What do we have to do as a company to ensure our loyal customers can get our product from us?"  Randomly dropping cards as they come available doesn't help their customers it helps reseller's.  Change the dynamic.  Empower the company and the customer.  
 
Continuing to release stock as it comes available sends the message that they care more about money than their customers.  

I agree 100% . As long as we can purchase one (pre order) , then relax knowing good and damn well we will get one at MSRP would be extremely helpful. We could all relax and have our lives back lol.

They already have a queue. It’s called notify me. They are already collecting emails and names of those that are interested. To turn that into a unique link and purchase flow would be trivial. Just unique all the entries. Send out emails when stock comes in to those that have signed up and only allow those folks to purchase. Simple. Repeat until queue is drained of there is enough inventory to cover normal sales.

Sounds good to me. I got up 1 hour before the launch and kept trying for 2 hours after the launch under elite page and couldn't check out until it's OOS. The frustrating part is I got nothing for all the effort

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Any chance EVGA is looking to implement a queue system for purchasing the 30 series.  Make it to where anyone who wants one can purchase the item then as their number comes up it will be shipped to them.  Imagine getting in line then as your number comes up your product is sent to you.  This would be incredibly helpful to the customer base.  I can't imagine staying on EVGA pages constantly refreshing for months to attempt to beat a bot and get a card as stock comes in.  Right now even though I was ready on day one I'm no closer to getting one than any other person who wants one in the future.  This is the system that SecretLab used to purchase my chair and I knew up front that while I had to wait for it as soon as it was my turn I got my product.  For clarification when i say pay up front it won't be a hold you fully pay for it then just wait for the arrival.
 
What was the most frustrating is I was in queue with the item in my cart for a full hour trying to buy it before it finally errored to the point where it cleared my cart and I couldn't get a card.  A queue system would have resolved this issue.  It would also massively handicap the reseller's on eBay.  I want to pay 1799 for the card not 3999 on eBay.

Never going to happen. nVidia wants FOMO, and AIBs have zero say in the matter.

Sounds like a great idea.

Thinking more about this it would also alert them to the demand of which products to prioritize.  They could move resources to certain versions of cards depending on the already paid for demand instead of just guessing what the demand is.  When every card sells out no matter how many you make it's hard to guess which versions users are more excited for.  They would have concrete proof as to which versions they should focus their production of.

At this point it's pretty clear that just tossing cards on the site and hoping for the best isn't a plan unless your goal is to inflate the prices on the secondary (i.e. Ebay) market. I've seen several 3080's relisted on Amazon for anywhere from $1499 to 2299.
 
I don't pretend to have "the answer" but allowing pre-orders and verifying those pre-orders seems like an obvious option.

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Please explain your logic.  How would you do it?  

Pre-order queue would just get filled with scalpers too, the few sites that DO use preorders have been backed up to spring.
 
if you really want to "pre-order" buy an evga 2080 and sign up for step up, you might just get it by easter, lmao

In this scenario how does the reseller benefit?  Anyone who wants the card will just stand in line.  They can't resell it for double the price cause you can just buy one and wait.  There is no money to be made if the customer base has already just paid for the card on the original site.  Also in a queue system you can have manual reviews of these orders and cancel suspicious ones.  I don't see how it would be worth the effort for resellers.

I'm just hoping for a queue so I can give my poor F5 finger a break.

Nvidia likely won’t allow it.  

Doubt it, they’ll probably just keep throwing stock at us until it levels out

A queue would be great, it could even allow for users to be screened deeply for whether they're bots or not.