Back again on this. So yeah, grain of salt I suppose. So I was speaking to a Best Buy Customer Service Rep today after my experience in store. We ended up talking about next-gen Consoles coming up funny enough. He mentioned he got a lot of calls about the 3080 FE over the phone. He says if you want to place an order, they may be going live at midnight (going into the 17th) Minnesota time since that's where their HQ is.
Then I saw on Nvidia discord:
So I'd definitely be checking then to see if the order goes live going into the 17th. Nothing would suck more waking up and finding out the thing is already sold out.
Is it the case that only Best Buy and Nvidia themselves are selling the Founders Edition?
Something else I just saw: