OK so we all should believe you rather than someone who has a great reputation and works/owns at one of the UK's top e-tailers
Are you not aware that AMD Direct do not ship outside of North America? For the rest of the world they are 100% reliant on their partners in the retail channel which are probably not that many.
I'm sure the two big UK e-tailers I've referred to have the same Business Development Manager with AMD and I'm sure they're saying WTF how many cards? Unless he tells them the truth about the scarcity of the cards and the fact that more are coming why would they bother selling just 44/56 cards each?
I bought my Vega 64 on the other e-tailer site by pure chance because I happened to remember they went on sale that day. The site clearly stated they only had a very limited number and once they were gone they were gone. I checked 10 minutes after my purchase and they were all gone and on pre-order. So in about 10 minutes they had sold their whole inventory.
At £700 Vega VII can stay on sale for the next two years and I won't buy one and with NV now supporting freesync monitors my GPU choices have expanded and AMD can no longer rely on my loyalty purely because of the freesync ecosystem like they did with Vega 64. Remember those blind test reviews
Going forward they are going to have to earn my money by producing competitive products at competitive prices especially as Intel are now appearing on the horizon. Long live competition.