We have been to 3 large grocery stores and no plain Fritos or Bob Evans or Jimmy Dean plain rolls of sausage.

More and more shelves empty each time.

EVGA is going to be starting up their queue process again with some new criteria. Here is the info:

https://www.evga.com/support/queue3/

It sounds a lot like what I suggested to them in an email I sent to them not that long ago regarding the criteria and going the extra mile to make sure customer loyalty is rewarded so it seems they may have actually listened!

I have been on their wait list for a 3080 Ti since July so if nhracecraft's wait time is any indication, I probably still have a few months to go as I too refuse to finance scalpers that gloat about screwing people and even post pictures of their grinch bot stock piles of 10 or 20 video cards. They can choke on them.

Congrats to you and your son on getting your queue link nhracecraft!

The only thing that does rub me the wrong way after having multiple generations of EVGA video cards is that I spotted them recently selling video cards that many of us are still waiting for in the queue at inflated prices on Amazon. How about you keep filling orders instead of scalping your own cards???

In the meantime, I'm still chugging along with the 1080 Ti that is oldest component in my system as I upgraded everything else last year when I could find good deals on components.

I don't mind the shortages so much as the excuse for mediocrity about EVERYTHING, especially any type of service industry.

You're not short staffed you have the same people here that you always have so don't use that for your incompetence.

I use a quart of milk for my coffee at work and they only carry pints now. There hasn't been any for months. A pint won't last a week. Yes I have to buy two, but that costs more than the quart did.

A half gallon is not acceptable as it's only pasteurized and won't last.

I buy the homogenized pasteurized because it will last a while in my fridge.

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Originally posted by Dtech:
I have been on their wait list for a 3080 Ti since July so if nhracecraft's wait time is any indication, I probably still have a few months to go as I too refuse to finance scalpers that gloat about screwing people and even post pictures of their grinch bot stock piles of 10 or 20 video cards. They can choke on them.

Congrats to you and your son on getting your queue link nhracecraft!

Thanks Dtech! Hey, just for reference, I checked 'My Notifies' in my EVGA Account and I got in the Queue for the 3080 Ti FTW3 on 6/4/21. Not sure what that might mean for your wait, but hopefully it ends up being shorter than you think. Honestly, I was thinking about the time spent in the Queue the other day and it's NOT unlike filing a Form 4 and waiting for your Tax Stamp to get approved. It DEFINITELY shouldn't take as long as it does, but when it comes through it sure is SWEET!

The 3080 Ti FTW3 should be delivered tomorrow by UPS, and we are SERIOUSLY stoked in this house! It feels like we won the lottery!

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
I use a quart of milk for my coffee at work and they only carry pints now. There hasn't been any for months. A pint won't last a week. Yes I have to buy two, but that costs more than the quart did.

A half gallon is not acceptable as it's only pasteurized and won't last.

I buy the homogenized pasteurized because it will last a while in my fridge.

There is always dry milk.

Just bought a whole pork belly for bacon. About 25% more than last year. Our side of beef we got was significantly more than two years ago.

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
Thanks Dtech! Hey, just for reference, I checked 'My Notifies' in my EVGA Account and I got in the Queue for the 3080 Ti FTW3 on 6/4/21. Not sure what that might mean for your wait, but hopefully it ends up being shorter than you think. Honestly, I was thinking about the time spent in the Queue the other day and it's NOT unlike filing a Form 4 and waiting for your Tax Stamp to get approved. It DEFINITELY shouldn't take as long as it does, but when it comes through it sure is SWEET!

The 3080 Ti FTW3 should be delivered tomorrow by UPS, and we are SERIOUSLY stoked in this house! It feels like we won the lottery!

I went back and looked at your post again and realized the December 2020 was for the other card so that is great news indeed if I'm only about a month behind your queue spot.

I got on the list for the "base" XC3 model and the FTW3 card like yours so I'd be good with either one as the only difference is a slightly higher GPU clock speed and the RGB colors on the FTW3 vs. the XC3 and the GPU can always be tweaked some with some conservative overclocking if it makes much of a difference in the fps you can get in a given game / app. The memory amount, clocks, and bandwidth are the same.

Looking forward to getting mine soon as well!

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I went back and looked at your post again and realized the December 2020 was for the other card so that is great news indeed if I'm only about a month behind your queue spot.

Looking forward to getting mine soon as well!

The only unknown variable is how many people piled into the Queue in the interim. Time will tell...

Honestly I was lucky...I had become discouraged and had given up on following the industry news/checking availability after a few months of NOTHING! I had multiple browser tabs open that I'd refresh multiple times a day, and was on product 'back in stock' notification lists with several suppliers. I decided to throw in the towel and was 'checking one last time' before I closed all those browser tabs (which I hadn't refreshed in quite a while) to move on. It's pure coincidence that I happened upon the launch of the RTX 3080 Ti, just one the day following the product availability. Somehow I decided to throw in the towel/check at the exact right time...It was either sheer luck, or divine providence! And as a result, the RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 for my son's new/one year old Gaming PC is currently 'Out for Delivery'!

This is killing us at work. My team cant get a full week of work because of parts shortages keep causing us to work short weeks.

I've been in this industry for 30 years now, and have never seen anything like this.

At the grocery, Fritos and Soup Oyster Crackers.

This “shortages” should give us an example of what it’s like living in a Socialist Government system.

what industry? what parts?

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This is killing us at work. My team cant get a full week of work because of parts shortages keep causing us to work short weeks.

I've been in this industry for 30 years now, and have never seen anything like this.

Para is right. Shortages are a good thing right now. Particularly in grocery stores because it scares people and it makes them ask themselves what the heck is going on? Empty shelves in a grocery is something we are not used to and seeing them scares a lot of the older folks in particular. It is something everyone is talking about. Now are they associating this to the Biden administration that's another thing.

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This “shortages” should give us an example of what it’s like living in a Socialist Government system.

And that’s yet one more thing that everyone on the Right should point out at every opportunity.

Some side by side photos of the bare shelves here with photos of the bare shelves in the various “workers’ paradises” over the years and labeled, “This is what the socialists in the Democrat party want for you,” might reach some of the even most obtuse.

I had forgotten about this but the article jogged my memory.

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n 1989, Boris Yeltsin visited a Randalls supermarket in Texas. He was astonished at what he saw: shelves, coolers, and freezers bursting with groceries. Were the late Russian president to visit today, he would find many of America’s stores having a lot in common with those of the centrally planned Soviet Union, where the inventory was chronically low, the customers morose.

According to reports of the day, Yeltsin, then still a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, “roamed the aisles of Randalls nodding his head in amazement,” declaring that “even the Politburo doesn’t have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev.”

“He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, ‘there would be a revolution,’” the Houston Chronicle said in a sort of “remember when” article a few years back.

Yeltsin’s biographer said that afterward he “was despondent” and “couldn’t stop thinking about the plentiful food at the grocery store and what his countrymen had to subsist on in Russia.”

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He was astonished at what he saw:

This was something that was mentioned in most of the accounts I’ve read about defectors from the Evil Empire and its minion states who were introduced to life in the United States for the first time. The most recent book I read was about the Soviet pilot who flew a MiG25 to Japan. Some of them were so skeptical of what they saw that they demanded to be driven around and to stop at random locations to ensure that what they were seeing weren’t displays that were specially prepared to deceive them. One early defector demanded to inspect private residences to convince himself that average Americans actually lived the way he was being shown.

Unfortunately, there are too few efforts to attack the fundamental flaws of socialist/Communiist theory and practice and its proponents are simply allowed to get away with their outrageous claims.

Due to the Washington state vaccination requirements on government employment, our department of transportation was way understaffed. During our last snowstorm, the passes across the Cascades were closed for a long time. The continued rain and resultant snowmelt flooded I5 to the south. In effect western Washington was cut off from deliveries via road for a bit. My local Costco was about a week from being empty of food. They ran out of chicken, most pork, and organic milk.

Mountainhouse is making bank right now selling three month food supply for $2400.

Had it in stock for one day and sold out the next. Too pricey for me for what it is (I keep some Mh around; reasons) - but, people are buying the freeze dried pasta in spades.

Farmers are warning of larger disruptions this spring. Who knows…