Will Bestbuy have RTX 3080 in store Thursday 9/17

[Yoshi Moshi]

Seeing if anyone has any updated on this. Thanks.

 

I'm not asking inventory levels. I'm not asking what time will the truck come with the RTX 3080. I'm not asking where they are located in the backroom. I'm simply a customer trying to buy a product from your store as a regular customer, give you my money, and asking if you will have the RTX 3080 for sale in physical store locations on 9/17. Please let me know thanks.

 

I know they will go for sale on 9/17 on Bestbuy.com, however I know people will spam F5 all day long trying to purchase one. The website will likely crash, and I will most likely not be able to purchase the product on your website. My best shot at buying this product from your store is showing up several hours before your store opens 9/17 at a physical location, ensuring I'm the first person in line, and guaranteed to get one IF you will have the product for sale at your physical store locations.

[Lurick]

Ummm, this is not a bestbuy support forum.......

[Yashiees]

1 hour ago, Yoshi Moshi said:

Seeing if anyone has any updated on this. Thanks.

 

I'm not asking inventory levels. I'm not asking what time will the truck come with the RTX 3080. I'm not asking where they are located in the backroom. I'm simply a customer trying to buy a product from your store as a regular customer, give you my money, and asking if you will have the RTX 3080 for sale in physical store locations on 9/17. Please let me know thanks.

 

I know they will go for sale on 9/17 on Bestbuy.com, however I know people will spam F5 all day long trying to purchase one. The website will likely crash, and I will most likely not be able to purchase the product on your website. My best shot at buying this product from your store is showing up several hours before your store opens 9/17 at a physical location, ensuring I'm the first person in line, and guaranteed to get one IF you will have the product for sale at your physical store locations.

I would wait for the reviews and after big navi - Then buy the card and I'm sure by then the card will defo be in a shop!

[Cyracus]

Magic 8-ball says "Ask again later"

[TetraSky]

Best never had "top of the line" graphic cards in store where I live, dunno about where you do, though.

[MadPistol]

How the heck would anyone here know this?

[gloop]

You’d probably be better off asking this on BestBuy customer service or their forums, rather than hoping that someone this this forum works in your local BestBuy, which is a minuscule chance. 

[nick name]

1 minute ago, MadPistol said:

How the heck would anyone here know this?

Are you saying that there aren't any Best Buy employees who are LTT fans?

[MadPistol]

Just now, nick name said:

Are you saying that there aren't any Best Buy employees who are LTT fans?

I'm saying that any BB employees that would divulge this info could potentially be breaking an NDA that they signed when they joined the company, thereby risking not only their job, but legal ramifications as well. If I were a BB employee right now, I wouldn't utter a word on the RTX 3xxx card availabilityfor stores.

[aisle9]

42 minutes ago, Yoshi Moshi said:

Seeing if anyone has any updated on this. Thanks.

 

I'm not asking inventory levels. I'm not asking what time will the truck come with the RTX 3080. I'm not asking where they are located in the backroom. I'm simply a customer trying to buy a product from your store as a regular customer, give you my money, and asking if you will have the RTX 3080 for sale in physical store locations on 9/17. Please let me know thanks.

 

I know they will go for sale on 9/17 on Bestbuy.com, however I know people will spam F5 all day long trying to purchase one. The website will likely crash, and I will most likely not be able to purchase the product on your website. My best shot at buying this product from your store is showing up several hours before your store opens 9/17 at a physical location, ensuring I'm the first person in line, and guaranteed to get one IF you will have the product for sale at your physical store locations.

I could answer this one of two ways, both probably true:

1. High volume stores might get one or two 3080s, but that's it. You won't know which ones do, if any, until the 17th.

2. Store managers don't even know or care yet. Best Buy is not Micro Center. There is no custom signage, no custom display to set up, none of that. It's a computer component, and BBY doesn't do rollout events for those. Why would they? Who's going to line up at Best Buy for a GPU in the numbers that would be needed for them to hold one and stock for it? GPUs are mostly online items for BBY, aside from the ones they keep on the shelves to get people who don't know what they're buying and why they shouldn't buy it there.

 

My suggestion: go to Best Buy's site and open the page for each of the 3080 SKUs you're interested in. Bookmark those pages. That way, at midnight on the 17th or whenever inventory updates, you can go buy yours for in-store pickup right away. I can guarantee you this: if you try to just walk into a Best Buy at 10:00 AM on 9/17 and ask for a 3080, even if they had one, or two, or ten, they were sold out before the store even opened by someone(s) who bought them online.