skleidnbfoies
Guydodge1021
jehoffman1
I just spoke with an acquaintance who is an importer.
He says that there are many ships backed up at the Port of Los Angeles awaiting unloading. The backlog is due to the fact that manpower at the docks has been reduced due to COVID-19.
Hopefully, many of those ships have EVGA cards (and other brands of GPUs, CPUs, and gaming consoles) on board. If so, Jacob's prediction that card availability will improve in the next couple of weeks may be correct.
My first choice is a 3060 TI, but I'd take a 3070 or a 3060 instead. I just want SOMETHING reasonably priced, that's noticeably faster than my GTX 970 FTW.
card availability will not improve for some time "months" but more than likely you'll see no improvement the rest of year.the only chance you have is that EVGA decides
to actually start dedicating some cards to this so called "list",as of now they are still continuing to feed 3rd party sellers which in turn is nothing more than feeding the scalpers
the scalpers know this as well just look at the price 1800.00-2500.00 for a 3080.the signs are all there its getting worse not better.EVGA holds all the cards and the deck is stacked !!!
They have contracts to provide products to retailers and these are long term contracts. It is clear business decision to keep honoring these contracts as the shortage will not continue forever and people will not always buy directly from evga. Also, you think there are no scalpers who sign up for the EVGA queue? They probably have many accounts and use bots to sign up quickly.
I'm a retired lawyer. Skleidnbfoies is correct. EVGA and other OEM cardmakers have contracts with retailers like Best Buy, Amazon, etc. that they must honor if supply is available. EVGA can only use the excess over its contractual obligations for direct sales to individuals like me and the others in the queue with home EVGA does NOT have contractual obligations.
EVGA does NOT "hold all the cards." EVGA is in the business of selling cards. It maximizes revenue and profit by producing and selling as many as it can.
EVGA does not like scalpers any more than we do--and neither do the retailers--because the scalpers take money that would otherwise be go to manufacturers, retailers, and/or consumers, depending on how the prices would shake out absent the scalpers. Scalpers do make purchasing cards more expensive during a shortage, but they do NOT reduce the overall supply. That is because they need to resell the cards they buy in order to make a profit. No scalper--except the very dumb ones--hoards his purchases. Once the supply increases, scalpers will have to sell at less than retail because people prefer to buy from an authorized retailer, to make any needed warranty claims easier.