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GeekyManatee posted:Mine is still in cart. Every few minutes the "checking out...." turns back into a check out button. I click it again, hoping every time that it'll finally allow Nvidia to siphon my wallet. If you make it past there it'll just tell you to gently caress off at the end: 
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So, these are my options on my go-to site. Are there any must avoid brands on here or have there been any sort of consensus itt on really solid picks? (hard without actually having the cards, but yeah) I cannot make myself care about doing overclocking, not paying extra for that. 
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Sep 17, 2020 16:54
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Tuxedo Gin posted:They should just do a single entry lottery for release day. I'm curious how they would even enforce this! Only because I've wondered the same thing, but then I get stuck on the "how do you really enforce the one-per-person rule if said people are bound and determined to circumvent the limit?"
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Sep 17, 2020 16:55
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GeekyManatee posted:Mine is still in cart. Every few minutes the "checking out...." turns back into a check out button. I click it again, hoping every time that it'll finally allow Nvidia to siphon my wallet. same I've got no expectations it'll ever actually go through, or that my order wouldn't be refunded if it somehow did though
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Taima posted:Not saying they shouldn't do a lottery but I don't know how you would enforce it. everyone signs up, emails picked at random allow you to order and user account info must match the key. they figured out how to do it for friggin' hamilton/harry potter tickets and those are much hotter commodities.
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Taima posted:Not saying they shouldn't do a lottery but I don't know how you would enforce it. Honestly? Drivers license verification. One entry per address, shipped to the address and name on license only, done a few weeks in advance. Comic con does something similar and it works and scalper bullshit basically doesn’t happen.
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Animal posted:It was on my cart stuck at checkout and disappeared when I refreshed. Dumb. Don't worry, it probably never actually even got to the store.nvidia.com DRHM checkout anyway.
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Sep 17, 2020 16:56
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Taima posted:Not saying they shouldn't do a lottery but I don't know how you would enforce it. captchas, lottery, queue, pre-order, so many loving ways have been developed to combat botters from sneaker manufacturers, only lovely sites like shoepalace, footlocker, and eastbay don't use them NVIDIA was more than capable of preventing this, but they just didn't care
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Sep 17, 2020 16:56
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Between this and the PS5 pre-orders, the last 18 hours have been a real poo poo show. An exhausting one at that.
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Sep 17, 2020 16:57
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axeil posted:i can't believe they don't even have the most basic of capchas on their site. Good luck at enforcing it op.
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Sep 17, 2020 16:57
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I really don't get it. I've been refreshing the whole time as people are saying they're able to buy and purchase and it never left "out of stock." 
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Sep 17, 2020 16:57
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drat and i'm mad over waking up early, imagine being these poor souls. gently caress you NVIDIA lmao https://twitter.com/Leekay07/status/1306619578739560448
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Twerkdad posted:If you make it past there it'll just tell you to gently caress off at the end: Lovely. If you had it in cart that should have been the end of things. :\
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Kingnothing posted:Honestly? Drivers license verification. One entry per address, shipped to the address and name on license only, done a few weeks in advance. Might have to move it to credit card verification instead of DL for :reasons: but, yeah, if you give a poo poo enough about it there are a ton of ways to reasonably tie accounts to individual identities. It wouldn't entirely stop it, but it sure would cut it down a lot.
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Taima posted:Not saying they shouldn't do a lottery but I don't know how you would enforce it. Put in your card and billing/mailing address upon entry. Hell, phone number verification, too, like apps do. Delete or ban duplicates. Not perfect but a hell of a lot better than frantically F5’ing and getting pissed. Lotteries are done in other places and industries to even the playing field and fight scalping - it definitely works.
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Sep 17, 2020 16:58
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If there's nothing at 5PM on the UK store I'm pretty sure that's it. The Online Store page isn't lagging out anymore.
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Sep 17, 2020 16:58
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Shogunner posted:captchas, lottery, queue, pre-order, so many loving ways have been developed to combat botters from sneaker manufacturers, only lovely sites like shoepalace, footlocker, and eastbay don't use them
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Sep 17, 2020 16:59
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Bedlam posted:I really don't get it. I've been refreshing the whole time as people are saying they're able to buy and purchase and it never left "out of stock." Different countries, for one. I'm in the US and never saw it available for purchase, but I did see it on the UK site, CA site, etc.
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Sep 17, 2020 16:59
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I am only sticking around in the hopes that I see someone put up the Batsignal on Amazon taking orders for all of their listed 3080s.
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DrDork posted:Different countries, for one. I'm in the US and never saw it available for purchase, but I did see it on the UK site, CA site, etc. I don't think the UK sites button ever went anywhere, and the only one that added to cart was a dud.
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Sep 17, 2020 17:00
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Parker Lewis posted:I am only sticking around in the hopes that I see someone put up the Batsignal on Amazon taking orders for all of their listed 3080s. I did notice some movement on the platform page. The Gigabyte cards didn't have their pictures at all until just recently, like the past hour maybe.
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Sep 17, 2020 17:01
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As far as I can tell it basically assigned you an API token if you managed to add it to cart, which was step one that "kinda, sorta" allowed you to get one, then it was more or less complete luck if the server completed your requests without throwing an error. All the way until they were out of stock. It actually reminds me a ton of those console giveaways they used to do in like the 90s where you would continually call a phone number. Hah.
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Sep 17, 2020 17:01
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Tuxedo Gin posted:They should just do a single entry lottery for release day. It's the most fair/logical solution. You know these things are gonna sell out anyway so why not give the scalpers a slug in the gut?
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Taima posted:As far as I can tell it basically assigned you an API token if you managed to add it to cart, which was step one that "kinda, sorta" allowed you to get one, then it was more or less complete luck if the server completed your requests without throwing an error. All the way until they were out of stock. Well gently caress thats rear end.
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Sep 17, 2020 17:02
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Ulio posted:Nvidia not having a captcha in 2020. Amazing stuff. They DO have a captcha! (in their goofy local app you have to sign into before you're allowed to download drivers)
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Sep 17, 2020 17:03
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GPU Megat[H]read - Nvidia loves bots
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ijyt posted:I don't think the UK sites button ever went anywhere, and the only one that added to cart was a dud. What makes matters worse is the little idiocyncracies.. I've discovered today that most stores have a completely different node handling their basket/checkout than the main site. The ones that didn't collapse completely would give you the option to preorder, but actually checking out - mission impossible. Nvidia is guilty of this too. When the launch time came around I was on the Nvidia shopping page with only the 3080 visible (everything else filtered out). It was sat on "Notify Me". It wasn't until probably 20 minutes later I discovered that if you only have one product as a result of the filter, it will just say "Notify Me" anyway. If I added 3090 to the filter - it changed to "Out of Stock". Great. It shouldn't be this difficult to throw money at a company. I'd rather know I have zero chance, because it's 100% out of stock, than have to keep F5'ing my fingers to the bone on the off chance they'll add more stock, or that I hit a different caching server, or that some backend script will work once for me, or whatever.
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jkyuusai posted:They DO have a captcha! (in their goofy local app you have to sign into before you're allowed to download drivers) why in god's name do you need a captcha for downloading drivers but not actually buying the card? it just amazes me the loving sneaker industry has this figured out but a tech company who should be aware of all this stuff doesn't.
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Funkysauce posted:It's the most fair/logical solution. You know these things are gonna sell out anyway so why not give the scalpers a slug in the gut? Because Nvidia already got paid, and will keep getting paid, because silicon crack. 
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GeekyManatee posted:Lovely. If you had it in cart that should have been the end of things. :\
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They could have done a captcha or a lottery or whatever, but does doing business like they do today actually hurt them? It seems like they still sell all their stock and that pushes the hype even further, without any cost to them.
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axeil posted:why in god's name do you need a captcha for downloading drivers but not actually buying the card? because consumer, gently caress you
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For people saying bots weren't a factor, this account is full of tweets bragging about using bots to snag cards today https://twitter.com/BounceAlerts
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Dracula Factory posted:They could have done a captcha or a lottery or whatever, but does doing business like they do today actually hurt them? It seems like they still sell all their stock and that pushes the hype even further, without any cost to them. arguably pisses off consumers. if there wasn't a monopoly at the top end this would probably be bad for them but since there isn't they can just say gently caress you, deal with it. this is why monopolies are bad.
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Dracula Factory posted:They could have done a captcha or a lottery or whatever, but does doing business like they do today actually hurt them? It seems like they still sell all their stock and that pushes the hype even further, without any cost to them. It angers people, but you're right--they have such a dominant product positioning right they they don't really have to give a gently caress. I mean, what are you going to do? Buy AMD?
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Some day AMD will make a good high end GPU and I’ll jump ship. NVIDIA should probably learn from Intel’s mistake
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Sep 17, 2020 17:09
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Overall it's not a total loss, the PS5 preorders were good (relatively a total walk in the park actually)
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My 45 minute session is still somehow active and my cart is not emptied, so I am clicking submit every 30 sec on the order confirmation screen in futility. Cleanse me in the digital rivers edit: can't wait to check and find $70,000 in pending charges on my credit card Bloodplay it again fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Sep 17, 2020 |
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the_enduser posted:at least we got a new driver guys Dozens of people will be able use these drivers in the next month! Dozens!
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