Well, I actually went to Newegg and had an RTX3090 in my shopping cart at MSRP. Unfortunately, I only want an RTX 3080 so I did not buy it. Maybe this is a sign that cards are starting to become available in the USA?
The 3090s are out there. Overclockers in the UK has them in stock every so often and the stocks last a few days. It's like every so often people give up and buy the 3090s but they always come back in stock.
The prices are starting to get crazy now though. I got into a cue for the gigabyte gaming OC and paid £767 including VAT and shipping, it's now £900 on the page, I don't know if that includes VAT. I may be looking at customs charge because it's going from the UK to Ireland though.
I've been following the progress on the overclockers forum and it gives you some idea of the problems, for European customers at least. There's no supply. They're getting a handful of cards each time, like a dozen at most. They have cues with over a thousand people waiting for each card. The MSRP was a joke that was never going to happen, the early prices were subsidised and now the real prices are coming, the price of everything will be going up. On top of that thanks to Brexit containers are stuck at ports, they can't even ship what they have in some cases. Overclockers is being hit bad loosing thousands on cards because they took in orders at the start and now the cards they are buying are over a hundred pounds more than they quoted (they are honouring the original prices, but that's means they're loosing out big time).
Nvidia seems to have done a bait and switch on the original prices, they were never realistic. They can't match demand, nowhere near it, and Brexit means there could be thousands of cards held at borders and ports.
It's a real mess, your either going to have to constantly watch shops for when they get (a tiny amount) of new stock in, or just forget about it until much later in the year, probably April if all goes well.
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