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Latest drop was made 2021-09-28 17:11 UTC

The drop is over, we have no info about when, what or where the next will be. Follow LinusTechTips on Youtube for any new drops.

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EXPECTED TO DROP NEXT:

  • Intel Arc GPUs (hinted at Dec 24th WAN Show)

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About shipping and handling

  • Handling times seem to be 1 week from drop to shipping label created.
  • Shipping times depend on carrier. For outside of NA, the carrier is FedEx and shipping times seem to be regular 5-14 days. For US and Canada, the shipping times might be same, or even longer.
  • Any additional charges, like customs fees and local VAT are paid on entry to country. There has been variation between countries to whom payments are made (FedEx on delivery, FedEx to their office, custom directly), so contact your local FedEx or customs offices for more details on those.

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Known drops:

1. Asus 3070, 3080 and 3090, 2021-03-20 17:40 UTC

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2. MSI 3080 SeaHawk, 2021-03-30 16:59 UTC

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3. AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 2021-04-09 00:59 UTC

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4. Asus TUF 6800XT, 2021-04-24 01:57 UTC / During WAN Show

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5. Asus TUF 6800XT, 2021-04-26 17:05 UTC

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6. EVGA RTX 3060 XC Gaming / RTX 3070 FTW3 Ultra, 2021-05-06 20:29 UTC

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7. MSI RTX 3080 Ti VENTUS 3X OC, 2021-09-28 17:11 UTC

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PARTICIPATION ENDED! If you are local to LMG (Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada), you can participate to this https://gleam.io/nntHg/verified-actual-gamer-program-can-you-beat-linus

Announced in WAN Show https://youtu.be/-qj6hkLkdYg?t=2450

The even video (also 6th drop video)

 

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FAQ

 

How do I enter? Can I enter? Where to signup?

You don't. All information about the drops are posted to Youtube and are hidden in videos. So far all drops have been on LinusTechTips main channel.

 

UPDATE: One of the drops was made live, during the WAN Show on Fridays. Until now there has been no drops on Friday or weekends.

 

UPDATE: For limited time, you can participate with local event https://gleam.io/nntHg/verified-actual-gamer-program-can-you-beat-linus

 

I watched the video, but there were no information. Where do I find this?

The information about the drop is removed from video after the drop is over.

 

When are videos posted?

At the moment LMG is using their regular timeslot which is 10-11AM PST (17-18 UTC).

UPDATE: LMG has posted in different timeslot to allow those in school or working chance.

 

How does this work?

So far the known information is following:

  • Video is posted on Youtube and Floatplane at the same time.
  • There's segment in video where Linus gives a hint about what link you need to use in order to enter. The hints are words and Linus uses his fingers to state what parts of the link they are. The links start with http://www.lttstore.com/. Link is temporary and will only show note about drop ending afterwards.
    • UPDATE: Previously there was actual cut-scene, latest drop had just voice-over during b-roll.
  • There will be challenge on store page.
    • The first two drops had 15 question quiz about video games. You have 3 lives and 3-4 options to choose from. Fastest to finish will get their chance to buy items.
      • Besides 3 lives, you can skip 2 questions.
      • The latest drop had questions in video format with some answers shown as "A/B/C/D" and some as written normally.
    • UPDATE: Latest drop had small flash game in style of Jump King / Icy Tower.
  • Item of the drop is shown on store page before taking the quiz. You will see the price and other details too.
  • UPDATE: After completing challenge, you are put onto queue with AFK meter to prevent idling. Forgetting to re-charge bar will drop you at the tail end of the line
  • Prices are before VAT, tariffs etc. and shown in USD. Price after tariffs (US only) are shown on page.
  • You are allowed to buy one CPU and one GPU from this event. (Source)

 

Can you tell me when the next drop is?

No, because we don't know.

 

I'm at school/sleeping/working/have other reasons and can't watch at current time slot.

Linus has said that they will at some point use different time slot. What it is, we don't know. UPDATE: The time slot for later time was 12PM-1AM UTC.

 

Why can't they have link or more information somewhere?

Because the whole point is make this as hard as possible for anyone but the absolute most dedicated fans.

 

Why they don't collect list of people? Why aren't forum members, Floatplane subscribers etc. prioritized?

List wouldn't do anything. There would still need to be draw of sort needed, and the list would consist more of non-gamers the longer it was left open. Prioritizing forum members would discriminate towards other parts of audience.

 

Having payment as requirement to join or as something making "winning" more likely is classified as lottery under laws. This would require permit, it would exclude several regions which require local permits or don't allow any lottery, and it would put age limit of 19 years in place.

 

Can I try quiz afterwards?

At the moment, no. But there might be site at some point after event ends.

 

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Posts made by Luke and Linus.

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WAN Show segments

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WAN Show Jun 4, 2021

26:25 - 27:10 "We currently have no stock, but the program is still on"

1:23:00 - 1:23:30 One board partner with some 3080Ti's coming

 

WAN Show April 23, 2021

17:43 - 34:43 VAG Drop live on stream

43:15 - 44:50 VAG drop is over, hinted about 270 more cards

1:16:40 - 1:17:44 Some last minute info

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WAN Show April 16, 2021

1:36:30 Super-chats

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WAN Show April 9, 2021

13:20 - 13:40 The latest drop info
40:50 - 43:55 The local event info
1:15:35 - 1:17:34 Super-chats #1
1:24:25 - 1:24:47 Super-chats #2
1:25:47 - 1:26:07 Super-chats #3

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WAN Show August 27, 2021

1:05:40 - Super-chats

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WAN Show October 8, 2021

2:06:20 - Super-chats

Here Linus says that Verified Actual Gamer program would be suspended until further notice. Reason given was that retail prices are about same as so-called "scalper prices". Making the program pointless.

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 WAN Show December 24, 2021

1:09:10 onward

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To be updated

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Misc:

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10 minutes ago, AlexP11223 said:

But then what's the point adding CC for YT part of the VAG if people who need CC will not be able to pass the quiz anyway.

Except with lipreading and guessing? Oh yeah, the last part was cheating /s

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1 hour ago, AlexP11223 said:

Several textbox answers will not make experience worse for gamers, for easy questions, like the one about Warcraft MMORPG mod (I knew the answer even though I never played it), can even hint the number of letters (4).

To be fair it took me a while to realise what the correct answer was to that question.
Ofc I knew it was Dota, but I sure didn't realise at first that when he said Defence of the ancients that this is indeed Dota.
So when I heard all 4 answers, I was kinda confused.

So if this was the textbox question, I think I would've never get past that.
Not many would understand that they need to type full name of the game.

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1 minute ago, Ruslanets said:

So if this was the textbox question, I think I would've never get past that.
Not many would understand that they need to type full name of the game.

Yeah, for textbox it should be simplified to just Dota.

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Question to all about the Verified Actual Gamers program how do i find the website to purchase these graphics cards because i'm trying to get one for my friend

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5 minutes ago, James Evens said:

Speed run once the video is public.

Is there like a website where you find em or nah?  LTTStore.com maybe?

 

 

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Just now, xyzfrosti said:

Is there like a website where you find em or nah

 

There is a web link that you need to figure out that changes with each drop and then some sort of verification to complete as well.

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Just now, Lurick said:

There is a web link that you need to figure out that changes with each drop and then complete some sort of verification to complete as well.

ah thank you

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15 minutes ago, AlexP11223 said:

@xyzfrosti also there is a web link on top of this page.

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what web link

 

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3 minutes ago, xyzfrosti said:

what web link

 

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23 hours ago, Tieox said:

They cannot and do not check every single container, I've had many imports not checked.  Does suck when you get stung though.

Doesn't fedex say to customs what's in it and what's value if it's bought form company? At least that's my understanding, if no i would be happy to not pay 23% on my 6800xt:P

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Just now, Khali said:

Doesn't fedex say to customs what's in it and what's value if it's bought form company? At least that's my understanding, if no i would be happy to not pay 23% on my 6800xt:P

UK here, regularly importing from the USA, and roughly a third of the time I get stung with VAT import tax.

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Just now, Khali said:

Doesn't fedex say to customs what's in it and what's value if it's bought form company? At least that's my understanding, if no i would be happy to not pay 23% on my 6800xt:P

There will be an invoice in the paper slip that goes with the box.

It's likely it's gonna get intercepted and I'll have to pay Irish VAT.

 

...Yet, I'm hoping somebody will forget to pick that ONE box 😄 

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Just now, mactipiak said:

There will be an invoice in the paper slip that goes with the box.

It's likely it's gonna get intercepted and I'll have to pay Irish VAT.

 

...Yet, I'm hoping somebody will forget to pick that ONE box 😄 

 do i understand correctly that it's fedex that does that? Or is it customs office?

 

1 minute ago, Tieox said:

UK here, regularly importing from the USA, and roughly a third of the time I get stung with VAT import tax.

Buying from company and having courier like fedex/dhl to ship it?

 

23% does make a difference for me, even though I should be able to sell my 1070ti for about what I bought it:P funny times we live in

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9 hours ago, AlexP11223 said:

It's Asus MSRP, not AMD MSRP. Also depending on when and where newegg had such price it may not include tariffs or Asus MSRP increase.

I thought LTT is Canadian, why is it paying US tariffs? Or is the $1,187 in Canadian dollars and those are Canadian tariffs?

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Just now, Quathel said:

I thought LTT is Canadian, why is it paying US tariffs? Or is the $1,187 in Canadian dollars and those are Canadian tariffs?

I recall from one of the WAN shows that Tariffs are to be paid as soon as the product enters the US. Whether it was bought in Canada or not, it's still a product subjected from tariffs. I think it was in the first announcement on the wan show.

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32 minutes ago, Quathel said:

I thought LTT is Canadian, why is it paying US tariffs? Or is the $1,187 in Canadian dollars and those are Canadian tariffs?

Import to the US has US tariffs added. Import to your country would have local tariffs added.

 

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Ignore my stupidity.

I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

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Oh so does LTT getting stuff from US subsidiaries not the Canadian ones?

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3 minutes ago, mactipiak said:

9:07 on this one: LTTstore is Selling GPUs... - YouTube

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20 minutes ago, Quathel said:

I thought LTT is Canadian, why is it paying US tariffs? Or is the $1,187 in Canadian dollars and those are Canadian tariffs?

Because for tariffs, it is the COO (Country of origins) that matters.  
It doesn't matter if the product makes it's way to canada first before entering the US, tariffs are still applied because China is the COO.
So US customers need to pay for the increase in price because of tariffs, while the rest of the world don't.  

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2 minutes ago, Votk said:

Because for tariffs, it is the COO (Country of origins) that matters.  
It doesn't matter if the product makes it's way to canada first before entering the US, tariffs are still applied because China is the COO.
So US customers need to pay for the increase in price because of tariffs, while the rest of the world don't.  

that is exactly what I am trying to figure out, because people ordering on LTT store that are from EU are paying US tariffs which doesnt make sense to me, it would make sense that they would pay EU tariffs or Canadian tariffs

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