Majority Of Waterblocks Pushed Back For 3-4 Months On The Website.

[sblantipodi]

Most of the waterblocks AC offer for the 50 series are now pushed up from 5-6 weeks leeway to 3-4 months leeway, hopefully in that time as well they are able to add more models as well. That's a big jump in availability time .

What was the problem?

 

[Eddy]

The current delivery dates listed in the shop are placeholders. Due to the enormous volume of pre-orders, we currently do not know when we can fulfill all the pre-orders we have received so far. We are currently in discussions with our factory to determine when we can expect sufficient deliveries to cover the existing pre-orders.

We expect to start delivering to the first pre-order customers in about 3 weeks. Subsequent deliveries will then occur regularly. I cannot currently specify exactly when each customer will receive their cooler. Deliveries will be made in the order that we received them.

 

[sblantipodi]

come one, no one trust this
5090 is a 3000+€ card that makes it a nichy product,
custom water cooling is a very very small nichy of the nichy.
You can add that cards are not even available in stocks.

Who can believe such a story?

You printed 10 blocks and now you want money and preorders to print others...
tell us the truth, non one will blame you for the truth.

 

[Eddy]

Do you realize that we serve a global market and are currently the largest water cooling manufacturer in the DIY sector?
The 5090 is currently the most popular graphics card on the market. The prices are almost irrelevant. The target group or customers are rarely gamers but users who use this card in the professional sector. For this sector, the 5090 cards are real bargains.

 

[sblantipodi]

No, it's not.
People that uses cards in the professional sector buys the professional cards from NVIDIA,
GeForce cards are meant for gaming

There are still some prosumers (not professionals) that wants a GeForce card to make prosumer tasks but that is a very very very small nichy,
your story does not represent the truth.

I try to explain my point of view.
You printed 10 waterblocks just to have the first 10 customers act as beta testers, as any large-scale problems would have caused economic damage.
If the first 10 beta testers do not complain, you will gradually increase production, but you obviously do not want to stockpile or advance too much money, and this is why you opened preorders.
You print waterblocks only after receiving the customers' money, no risk for you, no inventory expenses.

This is the reality, or at least, the only credible one in this discussion.

In any case I think that there is no reasons to continue this discussion becasue our opinion is not going to change further.

 

[Eddy]

Your point of view is simply wrong and untrue. It only shows that it is based on assumptions without evidence. Your assessment regarding the segment where especially 5090 and before that 4090 cards are used for the professional sector is simply wrong. Even our large server customers use these cards en masse instead of Quadro cards because they fulfill their purpose and are significantly cheaper. The only exceptions are applications where more VRam is absolutely necessary.

Producing 10 coolers would be foolish and stupid. The cost per card would be astronomically high. The minimum production quantity is 300 coolers, we don't even start producing less than that because it simply makes no sense and would be completely absurd in terms of costs.

At least we agree on one thing, the discussion is pointless. People want to believe in something, then they believe in it, no matter what you say or do.

 

[WildYeti]

Wow, such a nice response. Yeah, I will NOT be buying anything from alphacool now.

 

[sblantipodi]

Your point of view is simply wrong and untrue. It only shows that it is based on assumptions without evidence. Your assessment regarding the segment where especially 5090 and before that 4090 cards are used for the professional sector is simply wrong. Even our large server customers use these cards en masse instead of Quadro cards because they fulfill their purpose and are significantly cheaper. The only exceptions are applications where more VRam is absolutely necessary.

Producing 10 coolers would be foolish and stupid. The cost per card would be astronomically high. The minimum production quantity is 300 coolers, we don't even start producing less than that because it simply makes no sense and would be completely absurd in terms of costs.

At least we agree on one thing, the discussion is pointless. People want to believe in something, then they believe in it, no matter what you say or do.

I appreciate the answer,
thanks for the patience and the kindness even tough I was a bit harsh,

I still not agree 100% on your answer but having different opinions is perfectly normal on this world.

Thank you, looking forward to buy your warterblocks