ChrisAdan650
join:2003-05-10
Daly City, CA | Total BS!
It was total bs! I refreshed the giveaway link @ 11:00 exactly and the page came up about 2-3 mins later only to find out that the item had not gone on sale yet.... refreshed again and it was sold out? Rrrriiiight.... |
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1 edit | said by ChrisAdan650  :It was total bs! I refreshed the giveaway link @ 11:00 exactly and the page came up about 2-3 mins later only to find out that the item had not gone on sale yet.... refreshed again and it was sold out? Rrrriiiight.... I tried too... was getting my "1-click" setting cleaned up then *nothing*. It was probably all employees anyway.
Oh well, I already have one. 
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1UpandDown
@mindspring.com | They Play with the costumers
That's F*&^King BuLL SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs
They did not have not Xbox 360 for &100.00 Dollars...
That the promotions the want for The Low Life Server.
Again Bit Time Bull Shit... |
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gh4456
Premium,VIP
join:2004-04-07
Beverly Hills, CA
| reply to ChrisAdan650
Re: Total BS!
It sounds similar to the night the Wii went on sale. I was up at 3am waiting for it and at 3am the site got really slow but no Wii. They didn't actually put it on until 12pm the next day. Boy were a lot of people pissed. I also read it was on for literally 3 seconds.
Crazy stuff... |
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Devistater
join:2004-02-13
Clovis, CA
| reply to Authority
I hope you realize that 1 click ordering it would have forced an order at $300, not $100.
They had a page that described all this for days beforehand. You did read it didn't you?
The deal would have cost amazon $200,000 if everything went correctly, 1,000 xbox 360s at $100 instead of $300 (I bet wholesale is probably $280 or so but I'll discount that)
Its ironic, I bet amazon lost more than the $200k just from being down for 10 mins. |
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Fluker
join:2005-04-07
West Lafayette, IN | I wonder
How much traffic is "many users".
Nothing like a good flash mob to take down a business for a while. |
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thanggnguyen
join:2004-09-10
Houston, TX
| Amazon Customers Vote $100 Xbox 360
I waited precisely secs before 1pm EST to refresh only to see the page never stopped loading. Frustrated with the slowdown, I tried a different, but resulted in the same situation. When the page finally loaded, by then it was already too late. The item was listed as sold out. Damn Amazon for lack preparation for something like this. |
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noxboxdeals
@mb.ca | Ripped
I refreshed and refreshed, and within 30 seconds they were sold out. Somehow I doubt it...
Can we get any confirmed reports of anyone getting one of these? |
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R4M0N
Brazilian Soccer Ownz Joo
join:2000-10-04
Glen Allen, VA
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| BS
What a bunch of bull... I started refreshing 3 minutes before 11 and never got a single page to load until 2 past 11 with the xbox sold out...
So much for amazon... 
Even if the customer vote thingy is not canceled for next week, I'm not gonna bother. Pie in the sky.... pie in the sky. |
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Devistater
join:2004-02-13
Clovis, CA
| reply to Fluker
Re: I wonder
Well, considering that 25,000 people responded in a SINGLE comment thread to calibrate thier computer time to amazon's displayed post time, and I saw a number of other threads of 1,000 to 2,000 people doing same thing (this was before amazon disabled the posting stuff on that page that everyone was reloading)... And only a fraction of people actually post on something like that...
I'm willing to bet it was 500,000 people easy. |
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Doubledee32
join:2002-06-20
Charlotte, NC | reply to thanggnguyen
Re: Amazon Customers Vote $100 Xbox 360
Same here-we have three pc's with a high speed connection and we went on 10 minutes before the sale and then refreshed at 2:00 only to find out they SOLD OUT!!!-Unreal |
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Authority
Obama Biden '12
join:2000-03-29
Beverly Hills, CA
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| reply to Devistater
Re: Total BS!
said by Devistater :I hope you realize that 1 click ordering it would have forced an order at $300, not $100. No, I didn't. As I said I have one and don't really want another... I just got caught up in the wondering if I could get through thing.
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Fujin
join:2001-12-06
Sanford, FL
1 edit | no luck even on a fast connection
i work for a CLEC that only sells business class communication services in florida and today i had to work so i figured sitting on a DS3 connection would help....WRONG at 2:58 EST the site took a dump even for me |
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MrTorben
join:2004-12-14
Tampa, FL
| disappointing experience
I attempted this on a 100mb pipe from a QWEST cybercenter, plugged straight into their internet backbone and while i got to math 101 page instantly, amazon's web server was so slow that IE eventually timed out with a "page can not be displayed" obviously at that point it was too late.
in theory i should have had a decent shot at this, as far as getting my request into their system but if their webserver can handle the requests, it doesn't really matter what your internet connection speed is.
they should have setup a plain small page to do this instead of all their usual fullblown bloated page.
disappointing experience |
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Devistater
join:2004-02-13
Clovis, CA
| I actually saw...
I actually saw the Get this Deal button right on the dot at 11am PST. I clicked it and it said page not found, and from that moment on, amazon.com wouldn't load any pages for me.
So, I shoulda got the deal. Stupid amazon.
Next time the page loaded (I had several tabs trying to load the page) it said sold out. |
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Iridium
Premium
join:2003-04-02
Los Angeles, CA | Promotion not giveaway
You didn't get anything for free. |
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cob_
1310nm Of Goodness
Premium
join:2003-07-08
Tulsa, OK
1 edit | Dammit
Next week's deal vote appears to be going in the stupid portable DVD player direction. Vote for the drill folks! |
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swintec
Premium
join:2003-12-19
Alfred, ME | High Speed??
Would a high speed connection really make a difference in this case?? Even with dial up, you became just another connection for there server to deal with, which is what killed this deal. |
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cbrigante2
Cubs 20??
Premium
join:2002-11-22
North Aurora, IL | Idea?
I guess Microsoft has the answer on the magic price point to bury the competition on this round of consoles. Put the core for sale at $100, and everyone else eats dust. |
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Nerdtalker
Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
clubs:
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Re: Total BS!
Amazon's servers were Xbox 360s (FRAG) |
I'd love to see the looks on the people's faces in their NAC or whatever, as everything went to hell in a handbasket.
Pretty good idea, this certainly generated an angry flood-storm of people talking about it...
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