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Re: xbox 360 core system for $100 on amazon
I bought the xbox 360 premium at a Micro Center store 30 minutes from my house. The price was the usual $399 but they are offering the $100 rebate as mentioned above. It came with a wireless controller, headset, etc... I have it networked and connected to the HD DVD addon and my Samsung 4095. Installed Zune so I can stream my music files, now I have to figure out how to stream DVD files. I don't have Media Center XP just XP Pro.
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tommy3rd
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Clifton, NJ | reply to justin
tried that too justin...it was also unresponsive. |
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Obliteration
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said by justin  :said by dave sz :56kers? I have 6mb dsl and I couldn't access the site starting 5 minutes before 11am PST came around until 10 minutes after teh fact... I think many of the winners used https rather than http. Although normally slower, if everyone was flooding the http gateway with requests, https would have been faster at least while the database was still working. Next time I will know about https. Somehow I didn't know this time. 
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Obliteration
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said by ScottJr :I think people are bitter. I did not get one, but I did jump back in and got the bike, so it is not a total loss. There were literally millions of people in there trying to get it at once. That means each user had less than a one in a thousand chance at getting the 360. Wait 'til next week. Portable DVD player for $25! I will be trying again!  Less chances with the POS server NEVER loading. I clicked refresh at 12:57p.m. Central time(3 mins before the deal started and I got one response from the server at 1:03p.m saying it was sold out. For 6 damn mins the page didn't even load. 
It didn't start loading normally till about 30 mins after 1p.m.
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i did not get one and i was on the site waiting. when it came time to go i could not even get the page to load and i have cox cable with 5 meg speed. amazon.com is just like all the rest. they knew what would happen and did nothing to prevent it. they knew in advance that there would be an excessive amount of traffic on their site yet they claim innocence. it is like posting a notice on a street corner that there will be someone handing out 100 dollar bills to 1000 people. how many do you think would show up to get a chance? amazon.com is not innocent and i will never go to their site again. |
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Sebastian
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New Haven, CT | reply to justin
»news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061124/ap_···_outages
sold out in 29 seconds. |
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justin
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said by dave sz :56kers? I have 6mb dsl and I couldn't access the site starting 5 minutes before 11am PST came around until 10 minutes after teh fact... I think many of the winners used https rather than http. Although normally slower, if everyone was flooding the http gateway with requests, https would have been faster at least while the database was still working. |
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dave sz
join:2001-06-04
Carpentersville, IL | reply to justin
56kers? I have 6mb dsl and I couldn't access the site starting 5 minutes before 11am PST came around until 10 minutes after teh fact... |
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JohnnyG101
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I'm sure people are pissed, but also do not think people would go as far as that.
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LawsuitMan
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Can you say lawsuit by 56k'rs because they were not able to access this deal? I know it sounds crazy... but so does the lawsuit by some blind and/or deaf guy that couldn't use his screen reader to view target's website. |
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said by Fox McCloud :What would be insanely funny is if a lowly 56Ker managed to nab one. *chuckles* Even though I was not up for this deal, at all, I am still disappointed in Amazon for not having sufficient enough servers. Wanna bet they amp server load for Christmas and next Thanksgiving and Xmas? |
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Fox McCloud
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join:2006-07-23 | reply to rob2421
What would be insanely funny is if a lowly 56Ker managed to nab one. *chuckles*
Even though I was not up for this deal, at all, I am still disappointed in Amazon for not having sufficient enough servers. |
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tommy3rd
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Clifton, NJ | reply to JohnnyG101
yeah, i gave up too. tried logging in 5 minutes before the event and could not even get to the main page. |
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rob2421
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Marietta, GA | reply to Gandalf4503
I got one and I only had one tab open I had to refresh twice. |
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Gandalf4503
join:2002-06-27
Las Vegas, NV
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Yea, we all probably refreshed at the same time. I, admittedly, was using the auto-refresh function in opera. All 6 of my tabs (ok ok..I know..but I know some people had multiple computers setup for this thing) timed out and I couldn't even access the page until around 11:15. I was just like WTF! Really, amazon was NOT ready for this at all. |
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Sebastian
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New Haven, CT
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said by ScottJr :I think people are bitter. I did not get one, but I did jump back in and got the bike, so it is not a total loss. There were literally millions of people in there trying to get it at once. That means each user had less than a one in a thousand chance at getting the 360. Wait 'til next week. Portable DVD player for $25! I will be trying again! it's not about bitter, it's about amazon not being able to keep their site functional during the event.
i would have found it more acceptable to have been able to get a page load with "sold out" rather than looking at "loading..." for 5-10 minutes followed by "sold out". |
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marine1
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Houston, TX | reply to ScottJr
Yep....Browser crapped out trying to get the Xbox, but I got the bike and and the doll for my daughter....
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JohnnyG101
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I don't think it's being bitter. Their systems could not handle the capacity and THAT is where the problem lies. Anyways, I too got the bike. (After my code was stolen..I called up and was given a new one) |
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ScottJr
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I think people are bitter. I did not get one, but I did jump back in and got the bike, so it is not a total loss. There were literally millions of people in there trying to get it at once. That means each user had less than a one in a thousand chance at getting the 360.
Wait 'til next week. Portable DVD player for $25! I will be trying again! |
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Sebastian
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New Haven, CT | reply to Straphanger
maybe i can get a chance next time and get the diamond earrings for my nipples.
i can get that drill at walmart for $20. nothing really interesting.. |
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