While I just recently joined the forum because of the elite membership, I have to say I'm really enjoying my time here!

Yeah the scalper bots are a blight.

While you are fully justified in your concern that that the post avenue for elite membership might degrade the feeling of exclusivity of the status…
In defense of those who are pursing this approach, I would like to point there are several means of achieving elite status, and individuals posting on forums (barring pure spam) are far less likely to be miners and scalpers and far more likely to be individual consumers.
Posting may be free, but posting non-trivial content is time consuming.  Those intending to make money would consider this time investment to be ridiculous relative to the alternative means of acquiring priority status.
For example, those who mine have access to a wide range of existing cards.  For every existing evga card they own, they could create a consequent elite account immediately.  Scalpers could attempt a similar concept or use an alternative paid approach as they had access to a wide range of serial numbers.
Personally I would prefer if ownership of a 3000 series card was not considered grounds for priority access to additional 3000 series cards.

Yeah it is a good way to burn bots and make sure mostly people that really need it can buy it. I can think of better ways but eh nobody is perfect.

I think it’s a reasonable ask. Show your willing to devote some time

garbage-79
Giving the cards to someone who has already purchased a card not too far ago wouldn't be the fairest practice either imho. 

This is why I feel like getting a 3000 series card thru queue should delete you from the other queues to help give everyone a chance at a card.

Resetting your queue date to your most recent purchase date could be fair.

Chris396

afausty

garbage-79
Giving the cards to someone who has already purchased a card not too far ago wouldn't be the fairest practice either imho. 

This is why I feel like getting a 3000 series card thru queue should delete you from the other queues to help give everyone a chance at a card.

I agree with this. That's a fair way to give everyone a chance.

Yeah , i think this is the best solution

Honestly i find it rather stupid for the requirement for the posts and from what i have seen myself and nobody else has been able to register our items we bought to qualify for it and i hardly ever post on the forums let alone visit but now i feel like i am forced to get the stupid 100 post requirement.

faith730

AlexP11223

AmosBurton
Let's be real. No GPU manufacturer is going to need a marketing team much less a manager for years to come. They could be selling all of their GPUs in plain white boxes in the middle of the outback and still sell every single one in minutes.

They sell other products besides GPU.
 

kelkel1
  or are in a time zone that makes it unreasonable to stay up all night

It's US only.

 

For those of us in Hawaii, the time difference is real.... 8:00 am west coast would be 5:00 am here....

 
This is one of the few times being closer to the east coast has helped me when trying to buy something...

j.austin.smith77

afausty

garbage-79
Giving the cards to someone who has already purchased a card not too far ago wouldn't be the fairest practice either imho. 

This is why I feel like getting a 3000 series card thru queue should delete you from the other queues to help give everyone a chance at a card.

That would be a great way to do it, but I am still curious how well they would be able to tie the emails you give as part of queuing/"notify me" to each other, let alone an account since you do not need to log in to submit the notify me request.

I'd assume they would have a name/address restriction on the shipping process.  Some number allowed per name/address/time period.

I'm not a fan of it but I'm willing to try just about anything to put an end to the stress of finding a graphics card. 100 posts is nothing compared to the time I've already spent trying to aquire one.

Better than nothing, at least straight up bots will be somewhat hindered when trying to snipe.

JaylewAF11
Yeah I wish there was a less annoying way to get to the 100. Like I enjoy reading forums, but I just don't post that much. That goes for Reddit, EVGA, whatever. The twitch option just takes too much time.

Conversely, I don't enjoy reading new forums at all so this is going to be a real slog for everyone involved if I try to get ninety-nine more posts but here we go anyways.

I'm one of the dummies who sold his 2070 Super XC3 Ultra before the pandemic, and I didn't register it. :/  I'm finally biting the bullet and just posting, but trying to, you know, not just spam like a jackass.
 
I appreciate that EVGA is trying to reward loyalty in some ways (although I think I've had this EVGA account for like a decade).
 
EDIT: Yep, just joined the forums but my EVGA account was created for my old GTX 580.