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They'd have to be a real sucker that was pretty dumb and did not sit in line just to scalp the card themselves.... good luck finding that now.
Thats always the rumor.
By the time it can be found it will be obsolete too! :-P
Well the 3090 Ti RTX FE will be just as impossible to get as the 4080/4090 so if you are going to tear your hair out trying to buy the 3090 Ti RTX FE you might as well wait 8 months and get the better card. Besides supply MIGHT be better by then.
Please don't join the douchebags using bots.
I don't want to, I just want to get a card for myself. not to re-sell, not to scalp, not to sell on ebay at 3x,---I just want to be able to buy a card WHILE its worth having it...not 3 years later.
Looks like you already have 2x 3090, what would the 3090 ti do that they can't?
My guess would be more number crunching - physics modeling of some kind, with those specs (or he's insane, because a TT SFF case ain't fitting a dual xeon board)
Insane is my guess, 51tb raid 0?
Sir...., I got the T-Shirt
Its fully synchronized to an internal backup that takes very little time to synch / backup
Well, I called it on the number crunching. Never thought of an open case light that, but yeah, that'd do it.
For about 6 months, the normal inventory checker script (bot if you want to call it that, but not really a bot) worked, and you had a decent chance of getting a card carted at bestbuy.com. The Bestbuy website had a "please wait" mechanism before letting you add to cart, to try to slow down/trip up the bots. You needed to be sitting there watching for the grey Please wait button to turn into their normal, yellow Add to Cart button. Then in about March 2021, the hackers/more sophisticated botters, found a way to get around the please wait button, and cart cards immediately. When that happened, even the everyday "bot" didn't have a chance, as the cards are all gone in the first 10 seconds. The please wait spread it out to 15 to 30 minutes prior to that, and BestBuy would do waves, so say release 500 cards for sale, wait 15 minutes, release another 500, etc. (whatever the quantity was) It appeared that way anyway, could also have been cards that got carted but the sales didn't complete within the timer, and those were re-released. Anyway, you need a sophisticated bot to do this now, I don't know where to get those. I tried with the stock watcher script for 6 months, and did get a card carted twice before the enhanced bots came along. Didn't get the card either of those times because I forgot I had an email rule sending BB emails into a folder, and didn't realize it until a week or 2 after the second successful cart. So I was missing the confirmation code emails... grr that was Feb 2021. So March rolls along, and I am ready for real this time, and the extra-cheat-y bots come along and everything is gone within 15 seconds, while I am still sitting at the "please wait" thing. Fuck! Continued trying for 4 more months with no luck. July 2021 comes along, and BestBuy has wised up to those fuckers, so now the releases will be in-store only events. Some anyway.
). The store opened early at 8am, and they handed out the sheets at 7:30am. I was 100th in line and got the 8th 3090, and they had 51 3090's... Yes! I will point out that even people who showed up an hour or 2 before they opened, every single person in line, got a card. They didn't even have to wait in line all night. The scalpers and miners tend to shoot for the cheaper cards, I don't think a $3000 3090 was selling all that fast, and most scalpers are going to want quick turnaround so they don't pay interest on the purchase.
Thank youFor about 6 months, the normal inventory checker script (bot if you want to call it that, but not really a bot) worked, and you had a decent chance of getting a card carted at bestbuy.com. The Bestbuy website had a "please wait" mechanism before letting you add to cart, to try to slow down/trip up the bots. You needed to be sitting there watching for the grey Please wait button to turn into their normal, yellow Add to Cart button. Then in about March 2021, the hackers/more sophisticated botters, found a way to get around the please wait button, and cart cards immediately. When that happened, even the everyday "bot" didn't have a chance, as the cards are all gone in the first 10 seconds. The please wait spread it out to 15 to 30 minutes prior to that, and BestBuy would do waves, so say release 500 cards for sale, wait 15 minutes, release another 500, etc. (whatever the quantity was) It appeared that way anyway, could also have been cards that got carted but the sales didn't complete within the timer, and those were re-released. Anyway, you need a sophisticated bot to do this now, I don't know where to get those. I tried with the stock watcher script for 6 months, and did get a card carted twice before the enhanced bots came along. Didn't get the card either of those times because I forgot I had an email rule sending BB emails into a folder, and didn't realize it until a week or 2 after the second successful cart. So I was missing the confirmation code emails... grr that was Feb 2021. So March rolls along, and I am ready for real this time, and the extra-cheat-y bots come along and everything is gone within 15 seconds, while I am still sitting at the "please wait" thing. Fuck! Continued trying for 4 more months with no luck. July 2021 comes along, and BestBuy has wised up to those fuckers, so now the releases will be in-store only events. Some anyway.
You get about 24 hours notice that this is coming up (from a stock watcher Discord channel), at about 10am the day before. As long as you are in line by 7pm, you have practically 100% chance to get one. July 20, I find out that the next day cards will be in-store. I don't find out until about 9pm. Shit. I look up nearest store, it's a 2 hour drive. Shit Shit. What do I do... Decided to go, called the boss, tell her I'm going to be in late in the morning (teleworking), grab a few cans of something to drink, a little bit of food, call a friend to see if he wants to go too.. by the time I get going, its just after 11pm. I get there and get in line at 12:50am. (yes I was speeding). There's about 100 ppl in front of me. Shit shit shit, the line was long. When I saw how long the line was, I was sure I was screwed... But I had driven 2 hours, I figured I might as well wait, and I am no stranger to line-con. So I waited, and got what I was after. (Even had a 10% off a single purchase, so the card was $1349.99
So, most people were there for the cheaper cards, so 3080, 3070, or gaming cards LHR 3060 (whichever one had the LHR), and there were several models dropped, and the store got about 180 total cards. For the launch of a new model, everyone in line will be after the same part. I used a website that could find the quantities of each model at specific stores. So if you know how many will be available, you can guesstimate if you will get one or not. Who knows what a 3090ti will sell for at BestBuy, this is still unknown. And they might just do on-line sales, so it's possible that following a stock watcher discord, you might get lucky. Be ready to spend $2k. But for new launches they did the first batch as an in-store event.
tl;dr: When it's announced they will be sold and it is an in-store event (follow a stock watcher discord), be ready to spend the night in line. Have a folding chair, little cooler with ice and provisions ready to go. You will get one.
Was there any indication that it would release the 27th, or was that all just internet speculation?
