Got my step 2 and 3 today and waiting for the received payment confirmation.

Grats everybody! Now if only that momentum kept going. There may just be a chance I get my card this year. 😂

Step 2 & 3 received today. Will be shipping it out tomorrow after work and will update again once the new card is received (fingers crossed!)

kind of need help im trying to send my card to evga through the ups app but its saying duties and taxes are at £127 on top of the £198 ive already paid for the card and its stating that evga will be billed for this ..... is this correct or can someone else point me in the right direction of how and where to send it ...also sorry if this is the wrong forum to be posting this in i just really dont know where else to turn as quite a few people in here have already gone though the process   thanks in advance stu

I think the calculation that was displayed on the "My products" page was missing taxes or something.
Actual price of the 3080: ~930€
Minus 599€ (what I paid for my 2070 that was stepped up) = ~330€ 
Plus transport fee (DE): ~6€
--> had to pay ~336€ for step up. 
The "My Products" page announced I would have to pay ~250€. Before May it was saying ~210€. Anyway, step up is a good deal.
 
I received step 3 & 4 today and just sent my card to EVGA in Germany.
 
Now I have a question to the lucky people who already went through the whole process: How much time does EVGA (Germany) take to send the new card after receiving the old one? Since I am from southern Germany I am quite optimistic that EVGA will receive my card tomorrow and my inner child wants to believe there is a chance to receive the new card still this week.

horstigger
I think the calculation that was displayed on the "My products" page was missing taxes or something.
Actual price of the 3080: ~930€
Minus 599€ (what I paid for my 2070 that was stepped up) = ~330€ 
Plus transport fee (DE): ~6€
--> had to pay ~336€ for step up. 
The "My Products" page announced I would have to pay ~250€. Before May it was saying ~210€. Anyway, step up is a good deal.
 
I received step 3 & 4 today and just sent my card to EVGA in Germany.
 
Now I have a question to the lucky people who already went through the whole process: How much time does EVGA (Germany) take to send the new card after receiving the old one? Since I am from southern Germany I am quite optimistic that EVGA will receive my card tomorrow and my inner child wants to believe there is a chance to receive the new card still this week.

Oh right, thanks. I'm expecting the same, just for a moment thought it was going to become even more expensive. 🙈
My StepUp calculation on the account page hasn't been updated after day one of waiting.

PandaDrummer
Alright so : Step 3, Step 4, paid, verified, GPU in the mail. Will keep you posted.
 
On the price topic, i paid 16€ to EVGA as Step Up ( from a 2080ti though )
and 35€ for the package to be sent to germany, with 1000€ insurance.

I didn't even know there were shipping options. It said 5.99 or something and that's it.
Theoretically insurance is a vendor problem, or rather sender issue. Commercial senders are on the hook either way if a package gets lost in transit.

horstigger
Now I have a question to the lucky people who already went through the whole process: How much time does EVGA (Germany) take to send the new card after receiving the old one? Since I am from southern Germany I am quite optimistic that EVGA will receive my card tomorrow and my inner child wants to believe there is a chance to receive the new card still this week.

They shipped my new card on the same day the old one arrived

Neues Produkt
930.57 
Originalprodukt
- 747.76

Step-up-Kosten
182.81

Versandkosten
+ 5.99

Gesamtkosten
€ 188.80


 

My old card ist on the way to EVGA. I'm living in germany, so the whole exchange takes 3 to 4 working days (weekend days excluded!). For me that is okay.
 
A little thing thats pisses me off: while getting to the Paying-Step for the 3080 FTW3 Ultra the price was increased a huge step! From my point of view that ist not an fair way. All the month are showing the first intended price (and i'm checking my prdoucts side nearly every day!). By presenting the european customer the increased price after waiting nearly over a year while the us customers are getting faster fullfilment is like showning us european customers the middle finger with the one hand by holding the other hand open for taking more cash! This was the same situation with my 3090 FTW3 Ultra step-up and the price increase was much more, but i was tired of waiting or paying much higher scalper prices.
 
Just that i say it clear: I like the Step-Up-program and the possibilities which goes hand in hand with the program. Thanks for that EVGA. But you don't have to use scalping technics to loyal customers! ;-)
 
But from my german point of view the following ist the point:
Customer and vendor say: "For product X you have to pay the value Z!" an both say "Okay!". The vendor ist not allowed to increase the Value Z.

awollenhfremeloki

TheSaint7182
My old card ist on the way to EVGA. 

Send my card yesterday via DHL to EVGA and it arrived and is also processed today. Only got an e-mail that my card arrived but i checked the step-up and got a tracking number. So i expect my card tomorrow or Saturday. Wish you luck that you got your card on Mo or even Saturday. 

That's normal, give them a day or two. The annoying part is UPS, they need sometimes 2 or 3 days to deliver your card.

For inland shipping in germany DHL is pretty good and sometimes damn fast!

Oh, ok. Step-up price was 42€, now it's 190€.

Wynter667

capeesh
Oh, ok. Step-up price was 42€, now it's 190€.

How did that happen?
 
For those running into considerably higher costs, how expensive was the old card compared to their respective MSRP?
Is there a list somewhere? Sadly the old cards don't have any pricing anymore, at least my 2070S something something IDGAF didn't have it listed anymore.
I wouldn't expect EVGA to accept scalper pricing as down payment for the StepUp, and sadly authorized resellers aren't behaving much better than fully fledged eBay scalpers.
 
A roughly 90 EUR jump should have happened anyway after the April price increase.

I paid 823€ for rtx3080 XC3, just for card, without shipping. Anyway, I'm in queue since December, so when my turn will come, rtx4000 release will be much sooner. I have waterblock on XC3, so 190€ for stepup, selling current waterblock, buying new, that would be like 300€ for XC3 -> FTW3. Not sure I want that.

Wynter667

capeesh
I paid 823€ for rtx3080 XC3, just for card, without shipping. Anyway, I'm in queue since December, so when my turn will come, rtx4000 release will be much sooner. I have waterblock on XC3, so 190€ for stepup, selling current waterblock, buying new, that would be like 300€ for XC3 -> FTW3. Not sure I want that.

 
3080XC3 (10G-P5-3881-KL) is listed for 714.99 EUR before VAT while the FTW3 Ultra (10G-P5-3897-KL) is listed for 781.99. That's a difference of 67 EUR flat, plus tax plus shipping. Should be well below 100 EUR, probably half of your given 190 EUR estimate. Very odd.
 
Coming from an XC3 under water, is the StepUp really worth it?

40€ yes, 190€ no.  9 months ago, I wanted to push max (450-500W) from 3080, for that I would need FTW3.  But now I barely play any games (autumn / winter will come, maybe that will change).
If my turn for stepup was 6-8 months ago, I think I would pay 190€, but my turn won't be anytime soon, so I better save money for rtx4000 (or AMD, who knows), which will be much much faster than current gen.