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Old 09-21-2022, 08:08 AM   #4033
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Originally Posted by elBarto View Post
They also had a "gamers" waitinglist, everbody on that list could buy a GPU around MSRP (at same time that a GPU would cost 3 times MSRP), you just needed to be very patient.
Which is also a weird thing to do if you only would care for miners and profit.

Yep, that's how I got a 3060ti, took about 10 months. They seemed to have the best purchase system back on the worse days of supply issues. We will never know how many they reserved for their waiting list and how many they sold in bulk.

At the same time, they even made more money from their top tier program where you basically had to spend an X amount of money in order to get first dibs on their list, which can be translated to what Walmart+, Best Buy Total Pro is.

It sucks to lose one of the best customer services for GPUs and pretty solid quality, like I said, is business, and business wasn't doing great once demand fell and supply recovered.
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