I have been in that queue since December and I believe it's extremely slow. Best buy is another one to watch out for they usually used to do drops every 2-3 weeks on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Unfortunately for me the add to cart buttons glitched out after it was my turn in the queue last Saturday so I wasted a good 3 hours trying to get any 3080/3090. But they did drop cards for those three hours so there's that.
I am still mystefied as to why Best Buy cannot do a queue for Reward Zone members / verified customers.
I gave up on just adding the 5900x to my cart and checking out within a couple of days of launch. Going from website to website adding to cart, waiting for the website to crash or item to be out of stock before I could check out wasn't for me.
Their Dev team or website is probably using older tech which might take too long to implement a proper working solution rather than a random queue for everyone. Which they probably use something like playstation uses for the queue which is some third party site to manage traffic.
BestBuy's system is horrible when it comes to the latest tech stuff. I've experienced what you've described. I think the only real chance is to just happen to be on the site looking around when the product 1st goes live to buy. Even then like you said you'll need to pray to the PC gaming gods that you'll be successful in the end.
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Oops! Not sure why I was thinking $749.99 was the MSRP....Maybe 5800x and 5900x's pricing?
They've been turning up the price almost daily, even though they have tons in stock. Im guessing they got told no more new stock for two months or something and they're raising prices instead of letting stock sell out? Still I'd assume microcenter wouldn't be the only vendor pricing above MSRP. Something fishy going on around here
I think that Intel was quoted as mentioning a "substrate shortage" on one of the rumor / news sites. If this is true, then it's probably somewhat industry-wide, and probably affects AMD as well.
Yes I've seen them do this even for the 10 gen and 9th gen chips as well. The sold out 9900k went from $250 to $369 now.
FML. The tech hoarder in me does not need news like this.
I was simply trying to swap from an 8700k to a 9900k for a reasonable price to scratch an upgrade itch. Mind you Microcenter still is sold out on the 9900k but raised price to $369.
Well, they did hit $250 for what, a day when they finally hit the "Clear out last gen socket" button. I scored one for $300 with board discount a while back. I think $300 for top tier Intel chip for a socket is about where they stop. Heck the 8700k brings $230 even now on eBay.
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I'm continuously looking for a deal on ebay. I think I'm just sour I missed out on the $250 deal and now don't want to pay over that or $300.Well, they did hit $250 for what, a day when they finally hit the "Clear out last gen socket" button. I scored one for $300 with board discount a while back. I think $300 for top tier Intel chip for a socket is about where they stop. Heck the 8700k brings $230 even now on eBay.
If you do ever find a chip and want to move your 8700k, remember me. My son has a e8500 but I always wanted a 8700k
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