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DavePastry t1_j19z5p6 wrote

they are not sitting this one out, I've been trying to score a 4090 for months and it's just as difficult as it was back during the first great desperation.

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PolyZex t1_j1a5vll wrote

You can buy a 4090 right now from Walmart, Amazon, Tiger Direct, Helium Miners, New Egg... in stock, ships today if you order in the next couple hours.

Where are you running into problems?

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DavePastry t1_j1a64of wrote

I should clarify, for MSRP.

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PolyZex t1_j1aabjz wrote

tiger direct and new egg seem to be selling the 4090 for $98 over MSRP. It's not ideal but it's not to the level of scalpers marking them up $600+

I got my 3080 at Best Buy about a year or so ago, just got lucky- they were on the shelf.

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DavePastry t1_j1aok2d wrote

tiger direct doesn't have any 4090's in stock and of the ones in stock at newegg the cheapest one is 2100ish dollars unless I'm missing something?

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DavePastry t1_j1b2viq wrote

I super appreciate you lookin' out for me! unfortunately that website appears to be a scam :(

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https://www.centralglobalsuppliers.com/payment/

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PolyZex t1_j1b3efu wrote

Damn, sorry to send you in the wrong direction there. Wait until after the holidays... and maybe tax return season.

They were in stock not but a month ago. I got an e-mail from New Egg that had Zotac and 2 other 4090's with a huge heading that said "4090's back in stock".

I suspect the disruption will square itself out when we all go back to our seasonal depression in February.

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ZexMarquies01 t1_j1ywwiy wrote

lol, they were never "IN-STOCK". At least, not the way you think. They were in-stock for about 1 minute, at best.

Did those E-mails happen to tell you how MANY those site had in-stock? Having 1 or 1,000 both qualify as in-stock.

I had to follow a YT channel and Discord server that are made specifically to scrape most large retailers for in-stock 4090's. Every time one comes in stock, It goes out of stock within seconds. And whenever a site got any in-stock, It was only ever in small batches, And they'd space out the sale of them too. If they got 20 cards in, They'd sell 5 at a time, and drop each set of 5 like 10 - 20 minutes apart.

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ZexMarquies01 t1_j1yw72z wrote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Giub2JmpXhA

Go there, turn on volume. They alert you with audio, then post a link in the chat whenever a product they are watching comes instock.

Also, if you join their discord server, http://restockwatch.com/discord and Then scroll down to the 4090 channel, They are usually a few seconds faster at posting the link in Discord, as the YT video is about 30 seconds behind.

I was only on the YT channel and Discord for 2 days, before I got myself a Zotac 4090. It wasn't my preferred card, but it is a 4090.

EDIT: I should say, I got lucky. There are people that were sitting in the YT chat for weeks, trying to get a card. But they didn't use the discord channel, so I suspect that's why they could never get a card to go through the cart. So me getting a card in 2 days seems to be a bit of a rare / lucky case. OH and FYI, if you try this, Make sure you are already logged into the sites ( Amazon, Newegg, BestBuy etc..) and have your address and payment info already stored in their store. If you have to log-in whenever you try to buy one, or have to enter your CC info...you will NEVER get one.

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