NVIDIA explains the problems with the pre-sale

It is true that nobody expected that NVIDIA would not be able to sell all available copies of the GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card during pre-sale, but the big surprise was that the cards disappeared within minutes. NVIDIA decided to explain itself from the situation.

Demand exceeded all expectations

Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 went on pre-order at a very good price of $ 699 per model Founders Edition. Given the encouraging results of the first tests, it is no surprise that many players decided to pre-order their copies. The problem is that there were indeed many, or rather too many.

The resources prepared by NVIDIA were sold out within minutes, and willing players who were literally a minute late had to get away with the taste.

Unfortunately, as is often the case with similar actions, not all buyers turned out to be fans of the latest technologies in computer games.

RTX 3080 Pre-Order – Harvest for Onions from eBay

Disappointed players pointed out that graphics cards sold out so quickly due to the possibility of using bots. NVIDIA vehemently denied such a scenario, saying that the website was secured against the use of bots and that security mechanisms worked properly. People were supposed to make all purchases themselves.

Unfortunately, a large group of buyers turned out to be commonplace onions from classifieds websites who decided to take advantage of the high interest of players for easy earnings. It was no surprise that the pre-sale card was finished just after the end RTX 3080 appeared on eBay and the like, generally at prices at least twice as high as on NVIDIA’s website.

NVIDIA: Sorry, we promise you will improve quickly

For these circumstances, NVIDIA apologized to the players and undertook to provide as much as possible RTX 3080 to their trading partners so that every interested player can buy their desired copy at a fair price as soon as possible.