Tomtom364 wrote: » Never mind me that won't work
Retr0gamer wrote: » Going to suggest parcel motel? Jeff Bezos has been joined by the entire Tory cabinet on my punch in the jaw if I ever meet them in the pub list.
Deleted User wrote: » Looks like over the past month, both of the main crypto currencies have taken a bit of a drop in value. Hopefully this will continue. If I remember correctly, I read the other day that the Biden administration is looking to either tax or regulate the crypto currency market in some way. If that goes through. That should put a dampener on things. Either way hope its decline continues. So us gamers at least have a bit of a chance to get new graphics cards, but more importantly, the electricity that is wasted in this useless endeavour will drop.
Tomtom364 wrote: » Parcel Motel not running a UK service now. Was going to say Address Pal. Had it my head that Amazon are sorting the Irish Vat issue so would be grand. But address pal address would cause UK vat to be paid, then Irish vat collected on delivery here so no good. Daft Moment
harmless wrote: » Yup that's it exactly, only use the parcel forwarding services if you don't mind paying 21% over retail price.
Tomtom364 wrote: » at least for now Amazon.co.uk is paying Irish Vat for you so its only import duty on things bought from there if valued above €150, and PC components with their 0% duty mean we can use amazon.co.uk as normal for parts.
Retr0gamer wrote: » That's if they will ship, had them refuse to ship RTX cards to me twice.
Tomtom364 wrote: » does it not warn you before purchase that it wont ship to Ireland? I've seen that before. but never had an order placed to later be told they wont ship it to Ireland. Admittedly not on RTX cards yet as I haven't got a UK one into basket
Retr0gamer wrote: » You literally don't have time to check that if you want an RTX card. If you check if it will ship the card is gone
corvus4906 wrote: » I've been lucky enough to get a few 30-series cards... Probably 8 successful orders... but I cancelled some as later order beat them on cost, or they were a better brand. Actually bought 3 and they were all delivered. In case it helps, here's what I did and it seemed to make me have better odds compared to what i read on Discord: Use twitter primarily: Follow PartAlert and StockDrops Have notifications On for Mobile. Be signed into all the Amazons in Europe, and have card and address already hooked up so you just need click 'buy it now'. I used a Revolut card tied to my account that didn't have money on it so i was never charged immediately. Then when phone buzzes... click notification It'll bring you to twitter, click the image to the amazon page and click buy it now. Just do that as fast as you can. Don't even bother looking at the price/location/seller...With Amazon you can cancel your order after it's made if you don't like what you've just bought. I followed the Discord servers but never got anything.
corvus4906 wrote: » . I followed the Discord servers but never got anything.
Tomtom364 wrote: » Today was my first full day of having the discord open and Twitter notificatios on. I found that on about 75% of notifications I got a partalert discord bing on my laptop before a part alert Twitter notification on my mobile. Hadn't seen stockdrop I'll have to check them out No joy for me today, all out of my price range but I was training my reflexes
ZeitgeistGlee wrote: » Are the prices any better with those alerts or is it just a case of being able to actually be able to buy?
Homelander wrote: » Feel sorry for him, seems he went out and bought a load of cards for inflated prices and somehow thinks he can now make huge profit on the already inflated prices he paid.
K.O.Kiki wrote: » The worrying thing is that there seem to be genuine offers of 500 on those RX 580 8Gb cards.
MidlanderMan wrote: » Anyone know of Nvidia cards are able to use Smart Access Memory on AMD boards yet?
Sneak wrote: » After finally managing to bag a 3090 on Amazon Italy now I can't for the life of me find a 1000 watt psu. Looks to be just as hard to get one
Homelander wrote: » There is a lad on Adverts that has completely lost his mind with the GPU situation. Has an RX580 up for €750. GTX1660 for €650. €220 for an old R9 380. Previously had a RX480 up for €300, and when he got zero offers he made a new ad and raised the price to €400. Feel sorry for him, seems he went out and bought a load of cards for inflated prices and somehow thinks he can now make huge profit on the already inflated prices he paid.
H3llR4iser wrote: » Interesting bit of data that sort of demonstrates how absurd the market is at the moment, from the Steam Hardware Survey: