If you're desperate for a PC graphics card, get ready to camp out.
Best Buy is holding in-store sales for Nvidia RTX 3000 cards tomorrow, July 20, at select outlets across the US. The retailer plans on having “limited quantities” of the various models at 115 Best Buy stores, the company announced on Monday.
To distribute the cards, Best Buy employees at participating stores will begin handing out tickets to customers in line starting at 7:30 a.m. local time.
“We’ll hand out one ticket per customer in line. If you get a ticket, you will be guaranteed the opportunity to purchase a graphics card inside the store beginning at 8 a.m. local time,” the company added.
If you decide to participate, our advice is to begin lining up outside a participating Best Buy store as soon as possible. Last month, the retailer held in-store sales exclusively for the RTX 3080 Ti graphics cards, which drew massive lines outside Best Buy locations across the country.
However, many of the participating stores only had 64 units or less in stock. As a result, numerous customers who waited in line left the sales event empty-handed.
We saw this play out at the West Los Angeles Best Buy store. By around 3:30 p.m. the day before the sales, the store had attracted a line of 64 people. Hence, newcomers who came to the line and decided to camp out through the night left with nothing.
However, this time Best Buy will be selling a range of Nvidia RTX 3000 models. So the inventory may be more than before.