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sogangsta   07-03-2008 at 06:57:54 PM

Theres only 2 brands left. Why do you think Newegg is doing this?

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sogangsta   07-03-2008 at 07:07:57 PM
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nvm one is back on lol.

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Sailer   07-03-2008 at 07:08:44 PM
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Newegg isn't doing anything is secret, its all out there for anyone to see. The only thing missing is an explanation. But the explanation is easy enough. The manufacturing companies aren't supplying the goods, therefore Newegg isn't advertising them. It probably already has so many orders on "auto-notify" that it doesn't want to take any more for products it can't get. If any blame is to be made, ultimately it has to be laid at AMD/ATI, as AMD/ATI isn't producing enough to fill the demand.

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blackwidow_rsa   07-03-2008 at 07:17:47 PM
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Its the ''way it's meant to be sold'' program

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atomyc   07-03-2008 at 07:27:01 PM
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also if you notice when 4850 came out, several cards had rebates. but after few days, they remove the rebates, even tho the rebates was still avaliable.


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JeanLuc   07-03-2008 at 07:35:19 PM
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As an non US citizen and out of pure curiosity what are these Mail in rebates and why can’t you just get the rebate taken of at the point of sale?

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atrain   07-03-2008 at 07:40:46 PM
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JeanLuc, by doing mail-in rebates, they hope that you forget to mail them and then they don't have to give you the money.

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BadMannerKorea   07-03-2008 at 07:43:20 PM
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companies have rebates because it draws in customers. most of the times, customers will not redeem the rebates. they count on customers being too lazy, which is what happens.

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ram1009   07-03-2008 at 08:03:25 PM
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From a manufacturers point of view they want rebates to go to the end user. That's what they're for, to attract new business. If resellers were allowed to administer the rebate programs they would just keep the money for themselves.

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DXRick   07-03-2008 at 08:18:37 PM
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They also removed the Q9450 and Q9550 processors (instead of showing then as out of stock) when they were unavailable for a long time. They will add them back when they are in stock again. It is probably just an inventory management thing, like they remove products when their distributor gives them no ETA in case they get them from another distributor.

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hannibal   07-03-2008 at 09:21:51 PM
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There are very limited amount of GDD5 memory chips... So expect to see 4850 in stock and low stock for 4870.

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concrum   07-03-2008 at 11:07:17 PM
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Probably the heating problem of 4xxx series

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thogrom   07-04-2008 at 12:29:26 AM
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^ lol this guy has been making totally pro noob comments...

 

w/e best line is "Nvidia bought Newegg." that made me laugh pretty hard


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FrozenGpu   07-04-2008 at 02:08:20 AM
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blackwidow_rsa wrote :

Its the ''way it's meant to be sold'' program



exactly! :lol:

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FrozenGpu   07-04-2008 at 02:09:01 AM
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concrum wrote :

Probably the heating problem of 4xxx series



omg another troll, troll begone u fool!

begone!!!

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spathotan   07-04-2008 at 03:00:03 AM
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They do that when the card is out of stock and the auto notify hits a certain number. Ive seen this happen with 8800GT's and the abit iP35 pro.

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one-shot   07-04-2008 at 04:33:46 AM
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whoops


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one-shot   07-04-2008 at 04:38:27 AM
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hispeed120 wrote :

Nvidia bought Newegg.



blackwidow_rsa wrote :

Its the ''way it's meant to be sold'' program



That is pretty funny...damn Nvidia buying everything and making a new selling slogan on recently acquired Newegg....lol, that's awesome. :lol:

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ovaltineplease   07-04-2008 at 04:46:29 AM
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AMD already warned months ago that stocks would be limited after the initial release of the 4800 series - they were already delayed because of GDDR5 shortages once!

I would expect them to be back within the month though, but they were a really big hit so it isn't much surprise that they have run out.

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