Procedure to get a graphics card

The best way to get a high demand gpu like the 30 series is to show up before openings and pray there is not that much people and that you will land a voucher for your desired GPU. The process with vouchers is going to the store location and someone in MC will come out and give vouchers that will be only available after a certain time before it is invalid to use. Checking online is never really reliable because by the time you get there to get the item, it will 100% be gone.

So to sum it up... go early on tues-saturdays and attempt to get your desired GPU... This is what I am doing tomorrow as well...

In Madison Heights you need to get in line around midnight. I got there at 6am this morning and the line was all the way around the store. I talked to the people sitting in the lawn chairs and they said they showed up around 2am. Microcenter needs to come up with an idea where there is an actual signup.

Next delivery is Thursday morning.

Greetings. We receive shipments periodically to each Micro Center location. It would not be the same from store to store.

Greetings. I am sorry we would not have an exact time to provide you. We have seen most customers are going to the store before it opens to see if we have received shipments. Most often we seem to receive shipments on the weekdays. I'm unable to promise when we'll be receiving any new shipments or offer when to expect a shipment will be delivered, but it seems that most have success going in the morning before we open.

Very strange that microcenter thinks their current solution is the best, especially when many people still haven't received a covid vaccine yet. I will drive to the Dallas microcenter and camp outside overnight only if I know I can get a card. Otherwise, I am going to surmise that essentially only people who live in Dallas can get these cards which might have something to do with why the only Texas-based craigslist ads for RTX 30 series cards are by sellers in Houston and Dallas (the two microcenter locations in Texas 🤔) at prices that can only be classified as scalper prices.

So there seems to be two issues with microcenter's current plan for customers buying an rtx 30 series gpu. One being the obvious issue of urban camping for a night amongst a crowd of strangers while covid is still a concern for many people.

Those people lining up during the day before are not there to buy cards. They're there to hold spots for people who will be the next day. They're paid for their time to hold a place. If you find this happening at your local store, you have zero chance of actually buying a card at that location.