BFG 8800 GTS 640MB OC version 2 for 316 plus tax @ bestbuy.com FREE SHIP

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philw007

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Received mine today...just as my order was about to expire...

Added info to be more helpful:
ordered in massachusetts 6/19
received shipment notice 7/16
received card on 7/18

no calls made
 

punkrockml13

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well, the hold on my bank card that bestbuy put on to pay for my 8800gts appears to be gone. no shipped card for me yet. hopefully the rest of you get lucky soon. if i didnt have $175 in BB gift cards, I wouldnt have bothered this long. I dont understand why asking them for an update on their stock is so hard for them to offer. Ugh.

Anyone new gotten shipping information? What day did you order?

Im under the impression that it matters what distribution center you fall under too. probably why some people ordering past the 18th or 19th have gotten their card already and others havent.

Seriously, they need to either let us know the card is gone and it aint gonna happen, or fill us in on when we might expect shipment.

Most orders are canceling now anyways...
 

punkrockml13

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UPDATE:

just got off the phone with my regional distribution center and an online representative.

the lady at the distribution center told me that my state's BB warehouse just got in a shipment of the cards on the 17th, and incoming shipments dont show up in the computer until the 18th, and that she though that there wasnt any reason she could think of that my card wouldnt ship within the next few days - a week. She then told me to call the 800 number and ask BB.com why it still showed as a backorder on my order, so i did, and the man told me that the shipment just came in, and that theyve been updating their systems and that a day or two of a delay is exected, but to keep checking for my shipping information today, tomorrow, the next few days. Here's Hoping...

Anyways, just thought I'd update all of you who have held onto your orders. The guy told me that I was at least in the front half of the list, despite a large number of orders being placed on the card. So if i ordered on the 21st, im sure all of you ordering before me will get your cards / shipping information in the next few days. I expect that if my state warehouse got a shipment, most, if not all, of yours got one too. hopefully this information helps you guys

Sometimes it pays to pester a little bit here and there. I'm sure BB.com's 800 number representatives have blacklisted me, but that woman at the center was incredibly nice and understanding. She actually seemed like she wanted to help me. Crazy...

Anyways, Good luck. Hopefully all of this is the case, and that guy wasnt just sh*tting me.
 

DSmooth

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Ordered mine on the 22nd, extended my order for another 30 days, based on the above posting. I asked the CS representative about checking stock and according to her records there is no indication of any new shipment(s). I hope I still get one.
 

punkrockml13

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I don't know if all the warehouses got shipments. I just know that the one in my state that my card should be shipping from got one in on the 17th. But I remember hearing a representative say that they expected more between the end of july and the beginning of august.
 

punkrockml13

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this is ridiculous

i may be canceling my order and placing one for the same card but the OC version 1, which goes for 390 at BB.com

ugh, gift cards

anyone heard anything?
 

CZroe

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Uhh, strangely, it went on sale again though it is still back-ordered... only down to $348.49 though.

Oh, and once again: WTF did the OP mean by "dont forget cashback through certain sites?"

MOAR INFORMASHUNS PLZKTHX!

Originally posted by: punkrockml13
this is ridiculous

i may be canceling my order and placing one for the same card but the OC version 1, which goes for 390 at BB.com

ugh, gift cards

anyone heard anything?

Looks like it's $475.99 "on sale" to me.
 

CZroe

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Ah! Thanks. Anyone know if I can spend Reward Zone certificates online? I know you can now earn points, but spending them is still an in-store only kind of thing, right? I ask because I have well over a hundred dollars of them.
 

punkrockml13

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I have a feeling that with all the BFG cards now being on "sale" at BB, and how you can hardly find them anywhere else online still in stock, BFG is either trying to push out and clear stock, or theyre going out of business. Now, I can't see how they could be going out of business since theyre one of the biggest names in graphics cards. Especially for people who shop at local retail stores. So whats up with all of this?

you would think putting the card on sale again would only make the backorder problem worse. Best Buy haven't been showing themselves as being too bright lately in my opinion.

I especially like it when i ask the online representatives to look up the stock status, and they tell me theres no way to do that. No possible way whatsoever. And then I call my regional distribution center, and they look up the warehouse's stock with the simple entering of the 7 digit SKU.

Oh, Best Buy...
 

Rebooter

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I ordered this card from Best Buy on June 21 and I also had to extend my backorder for 30 days.

I notice that even though this card is listed in the products catalog on BFG's website, it is not available to order from their online store. I emailed them through their web comments page:

"Comment: When will the BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC2 640MB PCIe be
available? I ordered through Best Buy, but it is backordered, and the link
to buy it on your site doesn't work. Is this card still in production, or
has it been discontinued?"

On July 13 I got this response:

"It should be available next week."

But it still is not available in their own online store. So I have to wonder what is going on here.
 

CZroe

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Originally posted by: punkrockml13
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you would think putting the card on sale again would only make the backorder problem worse. Best Buy haven't been showing themselves as being too bright lately in my opinion.
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Mystery solved. Look at the Sunday flyer: "ALL BFG Cards 15% off!"

BFG is obviously a preferred partner. 15% isn't that much. Now we know why it was applied to a card that is already backordered too. ;)

Originally posted by: Rebooter
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"It should be available next week."

But it still is not available in their own online store. So I have to wonder what is going on here.

What's going on? A really long backorder... that's what. A lot of people get in on a deal and it skews the estimates pretty good. I'd be willing to be that quite a few shipped the following week but it wasn't enough to clear the backorder.
 

Heinrich

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The Tigerdirect Manufacturer's product specifications link for this card should open up to a BFG page, but it does not. The link is dead.
 

Rebooter

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Originally posted by: Rebooter
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"It should be available next week."

But it still is not available in their own online store. So I have to wonder what is going on here.

What's going on? A really long backorder... that's what. A lot of people get in on a deal and it skews the estimates pretty good. I'd be willing to be that quite a few shipped the following week but it wasn't enough to clear the backorder.

I just find it odd that BFGTech doesn't have it listed in their online store at all, not even as 'temporarily unavailable', etc.
 

ThePhantom

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Oh, the e-mail was to tell me it was packed and ready to be shipped but they still call it shipping confirmation. They gave me a tracking number and had "Status: Shipped on 07/22/2007 via UPS - ." The tracking number doesn't even work yet. The e-mail read,

"The items listed below are now packed and ready to leave our warehouse. Your credit card (or Gift Card) has been charged for the items.

Orders that are packed on Saturdays or Sundays do not reach the carrier until Monday morning. When a tracking number is listed below, please note that it has been assigned before the carrier has the package. If your tracking number does not appear immediately when attempting to track your package, the carrier may still be processing this information. You may need to check the carrier's site periodically for the updated information."

It took them long enough, they should really change their backordered information to "Backordered: Usually leaves our warehouse within 3-4 weeks"
 

punkrockml13

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ah, got it. well, enjoy the new card. hopefully since i ordered on the 21st, mine will be shipping soon too, although i have yet to receive anything.

its almost like, im constantly expecting the card not to ship, and thats natural. but if it were to ship, i wouldnt know what to think, because it would feel un-natural. sounds dumb, but you know what i mean?

best buy... lets go
 

Rebooter

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Originally posted by: punkrockml13
ah, got it. well, enjoy the new card. hopefully since i ordered on the 21st, mine will be shipping soon too, although i have yet to receive anything.

its almost like, im constantly expecting the card not to ship, and thats natural. but if it were to ship, i wouldnt know what to think, because it would feel un-natural. sounds dumb, but you know what i mean?

best buy... lets go

I ordered on the 21st too and I feel the same way. It's been over a month and... nothing. Keeping my fingers crossed.
 

punkrockml13

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I remember hearing that people ordering on the 20th were shipping last week sometime, so the fact that ThePhantom, who ordered on the 20th as well, has just gotten his card shipped out today, means that we're either getting really close to shipping, or this is going to drag on FOREVER. (and I ordered on the night of the 21st, so that puts me behind almost everyone that ordered that day. talk about giving up on ever seeing a card arrive at my door...)

I tried emailing BFG as well. I got a one sentence response: "They will be getting the cards at the end of this week"... which is exactly what another poster said was the response they received from BFG last week.

I sent Best Buy's customer service another email. I've realized that trying to talked to them does nothing. The regional warehouse employees are able to look up the off-location warehouse stock, but the 800 number, online representatives, and store locations can't? Um, can someone say incompetent? or lazy? or seriously needs to get their act together to better serve their customers?

Either way, it just makes me feel better to pester them after making me wait so long with no intelligent response as to when my order is going to ship.

FU BB
 

punkrockml13

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Called the distribution center again. They have no stock showing, and indication of anything coming in. I'm pissed right now. Screw BB for all of this in the first place. If they can't supply the orders, they need to tell us so now. I'm tired of wasting my time.

Anyone know how i can exchange my best buy gift cards for cash or gift cards to some place like newegg or compusa or the like?

Edit:

well, after pricing cards elsewhere, this is still the best deal. i guess im staying in the boat for awhile longer. lets keep updating on when who ships and what days they ordered on?
 

Vpham97

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Wurst Buy hasn't delivered on some orders from years ago. You sure you're patient enough to wait?
 

punkrockml13

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haha, i guess we have to be. or i could pay over 200 more and buy somewhere else, but id rather not. i look at it this way. if theyve slowly been shipping to people, they must be slowly getting stock from somewhere. and since it seems like theyre almost done shipping the orders from the 20th, hopefuly those of us ordering on the 21st will ship this week or next week. its not a huge deal. the longer you wait, the closer you get. i cant imagine why they wouldnt ship me a card at some point, even if i wait another month. theyll eventually get more, and eventually ship. if they were sold out, the website would have said so by now.

but in case that was a sarcastic remark, haha, who knows
 

punkrockml13

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Just got off the phone with the actual Findlay, Ohio warehouse, and the stock representative said they have several hundred in the warehouse. On hold with a BB.com 800 number representative. Shes thinking it may be some kind of a computer error on BB's part. Last week they did say they were updating their systems. Maybe its something to do with that. Cant imagine why those cards would have come in on the 17th (confirmed by him) and would just be sitting there if theres such a large backorder.

Update:

The woman said that those cards in the warehouse (which is the same one i should be shipping from) are already allocated to customers, meaning if theres 300 cards, then 300 customers are paired with those cards, and theyre going to be shipped out to them when they get shipped. I dont know why theyre just sitting there if theyre allocated though. But thats how it is right now I guess. She said she hoped that I was one of the next people to ship because she couldn't look up my place on the backorder line, which seems likely if people ordering on the 20th have just shipped (or maybe those cards sitting there are for them, much like ThePhantom received notice that his card was just packed yesterday and would be shipped out today). We've gotta be shipping soon. How many people could have actually ordered in that week, that wanted that specific card? How many people between us and those who already have shipped?

Hopefully some of this stuff that I post helps you guys out too, so I'm not just ramling about my experiences with best buy (although I'm sure its very amusing for some of you who already have their cards)


just curious... what was the time at which you received the shipping notifications? or the time it said it shipped?