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GeForce 8800GT Best Prices / In-Stock Listing

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Originally posted by: WhipperSnapper
Oh, wow! That would be a kick-arse deal then. Slick move on your part! What are you doing here on the Anandtech Hot Deals forums? That's a Fatwallet type of maneuver!
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LOL I know I'm too uber l33t for these forums.. Forget this place. Pwnerized.
 
Originally posted by: XNice
Originally posted by: WhipperSnapper
Holy hey...! Do you really need the 8800 GT? Wouldn't a 7950 GX2 be just as powerful if not more powerful?
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Looks like someone hasn't read any of the 4 million 8800GT reviews that's out on the same internet that you use to go to anandtech.com's forums.

Short answer: 8800GT > 7950GX2.
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Yup. At the time, the 7950 GX2 kicked just about everything in the nads and was fine when I had a 20" widescreen, now with a 24" widescreen and the current games, it's getting a bit long in the tooth. I have a few friends in town frothing at the mouth over the card, I think I might make out pretty good $$$-wise selling it lol.
 
I think Dell finally figured out how economics works. The lower the price, the higher the demand. The higher the price, the lower the demand. After god-knows-how-many orders (backorders that is) they took off the 20%discount.

The MSI card went from a respectable $208 (what the 8800GT should be) to a whopping $260. Still one of the less expensive versions out there but if you can find a $270-280 card in stock, it's probably a better option.
 
Hey there, thought I'd butt in on this thread seeing as it's one of the more complete ones of the million swimming around on the interwebs. Has anyone here ordered from CompSource? They had their MSI on preorder starting the 21st of October, and are now a good 4 weeks past the "release date". I've been emailing their staff, and after many "we'll ship them out when they get here" in response to an estimate, the ETA given to me was 11/26, 11/28 and 11/29 (which is today). I hope they weren't kidding, because I don't want to be waiting 'till January for the card, when they'll probably drop back to the low 200s.

Theirs is 242$ by the way, with free shipping:
http://www.compsource.com/pn/NX8800GTT2D512EOC/Msi_298/
 
According to some people at the SD forums, the shipping date for the MSI card at Dell has already been pushed back to 12/20.
 
I have a feeling you guys will be waiting awhile before you get these cards,this deal was posted everywhere,fatwallet,CAG,slickdeals,HardOC,Digg. There order que is probably through the roof.
 
Originally posted by: eyk03
According to some people at the SD forums, the shipping date for the MSI card at Dell has already been pushed back to 12/20.
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Ordered mine on the 25th, ship date still says 12/10.

 
Ordered my Dell MSI card on the 27th and ship date says 12/12 (so the same 15 day cushion as MadScientist). I'd like to think Dell has more pull with manufacturers (cough*Intel*cough) than many other retail chains, if any. Their volume is so much higher than everyone else but I suppose in the end, you can't sell what you don't have.
 
Ordered mine on the 24th. Email says shipping 12/10, hopefully I was one of the early bunch and it will actually get shipped around that time. I'd say some of the last bunch that ordered will be waiting till toward the end of Dec(if all of us ain't).
 
Originally posted by: edge929
I think Dell finally figured out how economics works. The lower the price, the higher the demand. The higher the price, the lower the demand. After god-knows-how-many orders (backorders that is) they took off the 20%discount.

The MSI card went from a respectable $208 (what the 8800GT should be) to a whopping $260. Still one of the less expensive versions out there but if you can find a $270-280 card in stock, it's probably a better option.
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lol, that's not how economics works at all. Otherwise, you would have hamburgers selling for a penny.

It's high demand = higher prices, lower demand = lower prices. The fact that these are priced lower could be a result of several different marketing/manufacturing ploys outside of economic forces (market penetration, inferior components, volume material discounts, etc.).
 
Originally posted by: binister
A bunch of 8800GTs are now available at NewEgg.

They don't show in the listing you have to pull up the product description.
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All I see is a couple of cards with ETA in-stock dates between 12/3 and 12/10. Otherwise, everything is still unavailable.
 
Originally posted by: MadScientist

Ordered mine on the 25th, ship date still says 12/10.
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I don't think anyone's order status has changed; of the two who say this, one got an e-mail, supposedly, and the other was told by the Dell CSR. The latter originally had a 12/10 date, which means that mine will probably arrive when Duke Nukem Forever is released.

 
Originally posted by: eyk03
Originally posted by: MadScientist

Ordered mine on the 25th, ship date still says 12/10.
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I don't think anyone's order status has changed; of the two who say this, one got an e-mail, supposedly, and the other was told by the Dell CSR. The latter originally had a 12/10 date, which means that mine will probably arrive when Duke Nukem Forever is released.
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Dell CSR's will say anything to get you off the phone. Dell is so monolithic they can afford to screw everyone who ordered an 8800gt from them and feel no backlash.
 
lol, that's not how economics works at all. Otherwise, you would have hamburgers selling for a penny.

It's high demand = higher prices, lower demand = lower prices. The fact that these are priced lower could be a result of several different marketing/manufacturing ploys outside of economic forces (market penetration, inferior components, volume material discounts, etc.).
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Was trying to make generalization based on a high-demand product. I'll buy an HD-DVD player at $100 bucks but not at $300. You get my point.
 
Originally posted by: MadScientist
Originally posted by: eyk03
According to some people at the SD forums, the shipping date for the MSI card at Dell has already been pushed back to 12/20.
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Ordered mine on the 25th, ship date still says 12/10.
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Yea me too. Just logged into dell to check.

Edit: wrong quote. Ordered on the 27th and have an estimated ship date of 12/12.
 
12/10 (my ship date) is less than two weeks away but my hope is to have Dell ship the card much sooner (yeah...wishful thinking but I'm being optimistic.)
Please post back here if your card is scheduled to arrive soooooooner....
 
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