Theres only 2 brands left. Why do you think Newegg is doing this?

Nvidia bought Newegg.

nvm one is back on lol.

Newegg isn't doing anything is secret, its all out there for anyone to see. The only thing missing is an explanation. But the explanation is easy enough. The manufacturing companies aren't supplying the goods, therefore Newegg isn't advertising them. It probably already has so many orders on "auto-notify" that it doesn't want to take any more for products it can't get. If any blame is to be made, ultimately it has to be laid at AMD/ATI, as AMD/ATI isn't producing enough to fill the demand.

Its the ''way it's meant to be sold'' program

also if you notice when 4850 came out, several cards had rebates. but after few days, they remove the rebates, even tho the rebates was still avaliable.

As an non US citizen and out of pure curiosity what are these Mail in rebates and why can’t you just get the rebate taken of at the point of sale?

JeanLuc, by doing mail-in rebates, they hope that you forget to mail them and then they don't have to give you the money.

companies have rebates because it draws in customers. most of the times, customers will not redeem the rebates. they count on customers being too lazy, which is what happens.

From a manufacturers point of view they want rebates to go to the end user. That's what they're for, to attract new business. If resellers were allowed to administer the rebate programs they would just keep the money for themselves.

They also removed the Q9450 and Q9550 processors (instead of showing then as out of stock) when they were unavailable for a long time. They will add them back when they are in stock again. It is probably just an inventory management thing, like they remove products when their distributor gives them no ETA in case they get them from another distributor.

There are very limited amount of GDD5 memory chips... So expect to see 4850 in stock and low stock for 4870.

Probably the heating problem of 4xxx series

^ lol this guy has been making totally pro noob comments...

w/e best line is "Nvidia bought Newegg." that made me laugh pretty hard

exactly!

omg another troll, troll begone u fool!

begone!!!

They do that when the card is out of stock and the auto notify hits a certain number. Ive seen this happen with 8800GT's and the abit iP35 pro.

whoops

That is pretty funny...damn Nvidia buying everything and making a new selling slogan on recently acquired Newegg....lol, that's awesome.

AMD already warned months ago that stocks would be limited after the initial release of the 4800 series - they were already delayed because of GDDR5 shortages once!

I would expect them to be back within the month though, but they were a really big hit so it isn't much surprise that they have run out.