News Your Odds of Winning Newegg Shuffle Are Just 0.001%

[logainofhades]

I won a 3070ti in the shuffle last week that was $599.99. That's MSRP. Stop spreading false information.

You got lucky then. Many I have seen have had hugely inflated pricing. I stopped bothering to look at them, after seeing the prices, and crappy gigabyte PSU bundles. I bought my RX 6800 at MSRP, without needing to buy junk hardware to go with it.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

With their scalper like prices

Stop spreading false information.

it's not exactly false information.
for quite some time now Newegg has been allowing 3rd party sellers to sell at scalper prices through their site.
though nothing from the actual Newegg store has been, there are many items available from 3rd party stores on their site now at scalper prices.

 

[Eximo]

A lot of the inflated pricing is the forced bundles. Plenty of good options if you also happen to want a $400 motherboard, $300 SSD, or a $600 monitor. For some people, maybe great. For others, not so much.

And there are a few overpriced cards, but they are consistent, so I think that is coming from the manufacturer.

Lately, there have been some unbundled cards, and at reasonably prices close to MSRP, at least for the cards in question.

The card I bought was indeed EVGAs retail price for the FTW 3080Ti, and unbundled. I really didn't need a 3080Ti, but first reasonable choice that has come up, and I did skip the 2080Ti (which I said I was going to buy) GTX1080 lasted me five years, hopefully this does the same.

 

[spongiemaster]

it's not exactly false information.
for quite some time now Newegg has been allowing 3rd party sellers to sell at scalper prices through their site.
though nothing from the actual Newegg store has been, there are many items available from 3rd party stores on their site now at scalper prices.

No, it is simply a false statement. Every GPU Newegg sells is through the shuffle, and none of them have been at scalpers' prices. Look at Ebay for scalpers' prices and you will find they are far more expensive there. The Newegg bundles suck for sure, but they sometimes give a slight bundle discount, so you're not even paying retail for the extra item, and usually, you're still paying less than the Ebay price even while adding the cost of the bundled item.

 

[scrapser]

I came here looking to see if anyone has had the same idea regarding the shuffle. My idea is to ask Newegg to set up a database of people who register for the shuffle and then track how many times the same person has entered to win a chance to purchase. With this information they could then weight each person's email address based on how many times they have entered which would give people who have been entering for a long time a higher chance of winning. It seems sort of upside-down that a person who's been trying for months to win loses to someone who just entered for the first time which is happening often if you read posts by people who have won. And I don't think this would be a difficult arrangement to set up. They already need to track who has entered for the shuffle to work.

Thoughts?

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

No, it is simply a false statement. Every GPU Newegg sells is through the shuffle, and none of them have been at scalpers' prices.

you obviously don't know what you're talking about.
there are many 3rd party sellers selling GPUs and other devices on Newegg for the same insane scalper prices that you will see anywhere else.

and many of their graphics cards and other in demand products sell outside of the shuffles.
just because you don't login at the correct time to see them available or have your own bots setup to search for them doesn't mean they do not exist.

just searching through Components > Video Cards & Video Devices > Desktop Graphics Cards you will see many of the 3rd party scalper prices for almost every AMD or Nvidia card available.

 

[Eximo]

I came here looking to see if anyone has had the same idea regarding the shuffle. My idea is to ask Newegg to set up a database of people who register for the shuffle and then track how many times the same person has entered to win a chance to purchase. With this information they could then weight each person's email address based on how many times they have entered which would give people who have been entering for a long time a higher chance of winning. It seems sort of upside-down that a person who's been trying for months to win loses to someone who just entered for the first time which is happening often if you read posts by people who have won. And I don't think this would be a difficult arrangement to set up. They already need to track who has entered for the shuffle to work.

Thoughts?

More or less end up with a queue then. And it might get complicated since the product selection varies. Do you weigh each person on SKU or bundle?

I can tell you I have gone after 3060, just in case. Even a PS5 here and there since I know my brother is actively trying to get one.

 

[Rosencrantz]

I actually won twice. Damn.

The first time was my EVGA 3080ti bundled with a PSU that was too low wattage to run it (lol...) and the second I did not purchase because I was out and missed the buying window, but it was another gigabyte 3080ti.

My friend won a zotac but released it back into the wild after realizing how grossly overpriced it was in the shuffle, even discounting the bundle.

I still enter it daily for my friends to give them another shot, and we jokingly call it our "nightly disappointment email"

 

[Rosencrantz]

A lot of the inflated pricing is the forced bundles. Plenty of good options if you also happen to want a $400 motherboard, $300 SSD, or a $600 monitor. For some people, maybe great. For others, not so much.

And there are a few overpriced cards, but they are consistent, so I think that is coming from the manufacturer.

Lately, there have been some unbundled cards, and at reasonably prices close to MSRP, at least for the cards in question.

The card I bought was indeed EVGAs retail price for the FTW 3080Ti, and unbundled. I really didn't need a 3080Ti, but first reasonable choice that has come up, and I did skip the 2080Ti (which I said I was going to buy) GTX1080 lasted me five years, hopefully this does the same.

That's what I am curious about personally. I wonder if anyone actually ever won an unbundled product, or if it is there simply to address the complaints about terrible bundles blatantly offloading <Mod Edit> that nobody is buying with something everyone wants badly enough to pay the "<mod edit language> item tax" lol.

 

[jacob249358]

no need to fear guys, the 6500xt is widely available!!

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

That's what I am curious about personally. I wonder if anyone actually ever won an unbundled product

yes.
i have an ASUS TUF RX 6700 XT & an ASUS TUF RTX 3080 Ti that i got through the Newegg Shuffle at MSRP.

neither were bundled with any of the junk they usually offer.
every couple of days i would run across another lone product that was actually worth purchasing but you have to keep up with checking often to find them.