« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Sparkfun Failday  (Read 1378 times)

Offline GhoSt

  • Creating Null
  • Around the block
  • *
  • Posts: 2552
  • Post quality +19/-0
  • Gender: Male
  • Null Pointer Exception
Sparkfun Failday
« on: January 07, 2010, 09:50:54 AM »
wow, I prepared my cart last night, got up at 4:30am this morning, then the servers were so bogged down I was stuck at the shipping page for 2hours. Now its all over, guess it was never meant to be, oh well good on sparkfun for becoming #1 on google. I am sure I would have got something had the servers been faster.

So any of you get any free merch?
Logged
|Variegation - GhoSt's Final Controller|

|Nothing is deterministic.|

Offline dedafmonteur

  • E = MC² Mad Scientist
  • *
  • Posts: 2049
  • Post quality +4/-0
  • Gender: Male
Re: Sparkfun Failday
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2010, 10:06:50 AM »
and as usual deda forgot it.....
Logged

Offline SN!P3R

  • Millennium Poster
  • *
  • Posts: 1444
  • Post quality +0/-10
  • Gender: Male
Re: Sparkfun Failday
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2010, 11:41:33 AM »
I managed to snag the 70w digital soldering station :tup:

and I know damn, I had to buy from my iPhone, it took me all :censored:ing day during physicsl
Logged
BEST 360 MODDING
HELP OUR ECONOMY!

360 MASHUP THREAD

Offline PspKicks316

  • Acidmods Alumni
  • Mad Bomber
  • *
  • Posts: 5709
  • Post quality +5/-4
  • Gender: Male
Re: Sparkfun Failday
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2010, 12:22:34 PM »
I was reminded by my friend at 1:30pm today. According to Sparkfun's site, it lasted less than 2 hours which means I would've needed to have bought stuff before 11... =/ I could've at lunch from my iPod. :censored:er.
Logged

Offline TeaBubblez

  • ~BubbleTea~
  • Ω Allumnist Ω
  • *
  • Posts: 131
  • Post quality +0/-0
  • Gender: Male
Re: Sparkfun Failday
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2010, 12:25:10 PM »
lol i forgot about this. i just went to bed ....
Logged

Offline laxboy

  • i like airplanes
  • Acidmods Alumni
  • E = MC² Mad Scientist
  • *
  • Posts: 1627
  • Post quality +12/-0
  • Gender: Male
  • CTVFD 9/11 lost but never forgotten
Re: Sparkfun Failday
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2010, 12:27:07 PM »
 :faint: i forgot dangit
Logged

Offline Squeck

  • Fart Sniffer
  • *
  • Posts: 46
  • Post quality +0/-0
  • Gender: Male
  • Acidmods User
Re: Sparkfun Failday
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2010, 01:36:18 PM »
That's unbelievable. Got into IRC channel 1hour before the start of the free day. At 9AM the site was down then it was put back up but has been unusable for 2 hours.

I think i refreshed more than 300 times, i stayed all the time in front of this stupid monitor. I got 10-15 times into the shipping part of the checkout, 7 times into the payment one, but dammit, i got stuck there.

I waited more than a month for this free day, i stayed there all the time, and i have not been able to place my order. That was my chance to enter in electronics world, being only 15 i can't spend 100$ on these things.

That was unbrowsable. I repeat, i was refreshing 2-3 times a minute, for 2 hrs. Not been able to complete this :censored:ing order.

Oh, yeah, donate to the IT department, sure.
« Last Edit: January 07, 2010, 01:37:17 PM by Squeck »
Logged

Offline GhoSt

  • Creating Null
  • Around the block
  • *
  • Posts: 2552
  • Post quality +19/-0
  • Gender: Male
  • Null Pointer Exception
Re: Sparkfun Failday
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2010, 03:44:40 PM »
I was trying since the time it started 5am NZ time, to the time it finished 6:50isham NZ  time, It was so dam frustrating, watching all the Americans with more of an advantage on twitter counting down the money, I managed to move from the checkout page I had open the night before, to the shipping page, then I couldn't get any further than that. Its not like I was even going for a soldering station, all I needed was some flux pens, and soldering iron tip cleaner, which cost like 50x more over here.
« Last Edit: January 07, 2010, 03:45:43 PM by GhoSt_Death »
Logged
|Variegation - GhoSt's Final Controller|

|Nothing is deterministic.|

Offline Squeck

  • Fart Sniffer
  • *
  • Posts: 46
  • Post quality +0/-0
  • Gender: Male
  • Acidmods User
Re: Sparkfun Failday
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2010, 04:16:20 AM »
The point is that so many people made a 99$ shopping cart, maybe for reselling items.

All i wanted was an arduino, an arduino protoboard and a small breadboard. Less than 50$. If everybody would have made a 50$ cart, then 1000 people more would have get the deal.
Logged

Offline Skullmaster

  • God Of Cars
  • Acidmods Alumni
  • E = MC² Mad Scientist
  • *
  • Posts: 1520
  • Post quality +1/-0
  • Gender: Male
  • Admin Force, Co-Owner Wanna-be
    • Acidmods
Re: Sparkfun Failday
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2010, 02:59:22 AM »
Yea I was waiting to and I never even got out of my cart page
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »
 
SMF spam blocked by CleanTalk
SimplePortal 2.3.5 © 2008-2012, SimplePortal