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https://videocardz.com/newz/polish-retailer-cancels-10-month-old-rtx-3070-order-offers-rtx-3060-in-return

Polish retailer cancels 10-month-old RTX 3070 order, offers RTX 3060 in return

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The editor ordered GeForce RTX 3070 non-LHR model back in November 2020. The Polish retailer X-Kom was taking preorders on items that were not in stock, but ensuring customers that the orders are now queued and will ship as soon as possible. As soon as the manufacturer informed X-Kom about the delay of the shipment, the retailer began offering full refunds. But this would not solve the problem, which is buying a graphics card at the price from November 2020, which was much lower than what we have now. This is where the problem starts.
 

The editor decided to wait for the card to be in stock, which unfortunately never happened. Over the span of 10 months, the retailer did not secure the shipment of the RTX 3070 non-LHR model. Instead, the retailer reached out to Jan when NVIDIA released its RTX 30 LHR (Lite Hash Rate) series to ask if he wishes to swap to an identical model, except with LHR mining lock enabled. Most customers should agree to this swap because non-LHR series are no longer produced and will likely never be restocked.
 

The real surprise came when the retailer offered RTX 3060 LHR instead of RTX 3070 LHR. X-kom even explained that this SKU offers ‘exactly the same performance as its predecessor’, which is simply not true. This is an extreme example of a retailer taking advantage of the current GPU pricing situation, by offering a similarly priced model, except 10 months later, when the pricing has skyrocketed.

Posting it here since it isn't really newsworthy, but I can confirm that this looks to be true and got two real-life examples with this exact store:

- My friend ordered a 3060Ti Gaming X Trio on launch day per my recommendation to do so, about a month and a half ago he was contacted that they could give him a 3060Ti Gaming Z Trio LHR instead, BUT he needed to pay another $50 to get it. Because of the current market situation and things not looking bright in the near future I told him to suck it up and pay it because he couldn't play most games that he liked with his previous 3GB 1060 at 1440p, but still a f*cking dick move. He doesn't plan to mine cryptocurrencies, but the LHR thing is kind of a downgrade too.

- I have a 3080 TUF order standing since 17.09.2020 (ordered around 15 minutes after they went on sale), I've been waiting almost a full year (!) now, and I recently got news that I'm 77th in the queue. It needs to be noted, that in March of this year I was 98th and it's hard to believe that they weren't able to source enough cards to fulfill launch-day orders for an entire year.

Luckily I've got an RX 6900 XT now so I don't really need a 3080, but I'm still curious when and how they're planning to resolve it. Dick moves all around.