I've been able to get 1070 and 1080s at retail price by backordering through B&H; they took 2 extra days to ship but NBD.
Funny, my friend had no issue getting two of them. The only impossible to get model is gigabyte's xtreme version and it's not even the 'best'.
From which vendor, may I ask?
Zotac Extreme.
Cool. Who has it in stock?
A month ago you'd be right. As it is, all manufacturers are stocking their cards pretty regularly it you set up notifications for em.
I've had notifications set up on Newegg for every variant and I have been notified for only two of the lesser variants, and by the time I check the site it's already out of stock.