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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I went to the Memory Express SE location and arrived just over an hour before they opened. There was already a line forming; I was #16. There were probably 80-100 people in line behind me by the time the store opened. Ten minutes before they opened the doors, an employee came out and handed a numbered ticket to everyone in line. Awesome, I'm home free! Everyone naturally assumed the tickets corresponded to the number of 3080 cards they had in stock, right? WRONG. The tickets only allowed you to place a pre-order. They had zero cards in stock and couldn't say when the inventory would arrive.
Edit: Also, at no point did a MemEx employee ever come outside to tell all the people queuing up that there was no inventory. Even when they handed out the numbered tickets, they didn't say they were for pre-orders only. It was only after the first guy in line went inside, came out empty-handed except for a pre-order receipt, and told everyone waiting what was going on that we found out. Poor form, Memory Express, poor form.
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Update: Memory Express called me earlier today to say that my RTX 3080 has arrived...39 days after I originally ordered it on launch day. I went to pick it up on my lunch break. The sales dude said they don't expect the inventory crunch to work itself out for another three or four months.