Okay this is just ridiculous, like someone else on this forum said, I have never had so much trouble trying to throw 800+ dollars at a company for their products!
 
How much time do you waste each day sitting in front of your computer, smashing F5 to refresh newegg, bestbuy, EVGA, etc? 
 
Why not just open pre-order and send out cards in order of pre-order numbers when they are back in stock?
 
Like Tesla. It is fine to tell me that my order won't ship for another 3 months, I just don't like hanging in the air, playing the guessing game of when it will restock (getting up 6 am each morning to check for restock?), and constantly trying to compete with bots.
 
Pre-order gives consumers peace of mind, gives the manufacture an estimate of demand (so that they will not overproduce), and save the entire society countless hours combined that can be spent on other more productive things!
 

go buy a 2070 or 2080  and do step-up, you'll have your NEW 3080 or 90 in about 4-6 months... 

Supposedly NVidia said no, so AIB’s must abide by NVidia’s rules.

No idea about the proof behind that, but this has come up plenty of times and now it is just beating a dead horse. NVidia doesn’t allow preorders, so they aren’t going to be available.

What third party sellers do is not the same, as they are not bound to NVidia contracts the same way.

They don’t even need to do a preorder. Preorder means ordering something before it’s released. The product is already released. They already have a way to collect names, it’s the notify me button. Remove dupes and enter everyone in a queue. Start sending out links as product comes in. It really isn’t that hard and would take all of a few hours or so to code up the process.

It would be controversial, but I wonder why none of the AIBs do a Vickrey auction. Anyone can submit a sealed bid and highest bids are fulfilled using however many cards they have available at the price of the lowest successful bidder. AIBs get extra profit, the whales get their cards, and scalpers get left with nothing. This would definitely inflate prices at launch, but once inventory is stable it can return to MSRP.

Dezlok
You can preorder at CDW but there's like an ETA of November and you pay an extra $200

Then you got hosed mine was only an extra $68 for a CDW preorder

Nvidia said no to pre-orders, not to backorders, which is I believe is what OP is suggesting.
 
 

Nvidia launches are always trash. I never have any problems getting any other product like I do Nvidia's. It's hard to believe that they don't push artificial demand/lower supply.

No pre orders.. more money to make when prices rise