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It looks like I'm one of the fortunate few who managed to place an order. I had an account set up beforehand but didn't have my cart full until 10:45am or so. S
by krupap 17y ago
It looks like I'm one of the fortunate few who managed to place an order. I had an account set up beforehand but didn't have my cart full until 10:45am or so. SparkFun was, indeed, exceedingly slow but my tactic of pressing "refresh" every minute or so seems to have paid off. I'd say it was an hour's worth of effort in total. Best of luck and keep trying!
- p4ncur 17y agoWhat was the page you saw after clicking sth like "Yes, i want to get this stuff by Sprakfun Free Day"? I was able to get only to that moment and the next site (after a milion of "refresh") is just blank... Do you know anything about it?
- krupap 17y agoThe page went blank for me too after pressing "yes, I want free stuff..." but refreshing that blank page 10-20 times got me to a "congratulations" page with a SparkFun guy wearing a crown and an order email in my inbox (though my order total, which was well over $100, didn't reflect the $100 off I'm assuming it came through...but I saved the congrats page just to be sure).
- assemble 17y agoI appear to be stuck on the shipping address page--just refreshing when the connection craps doesn't seem to work. Anything in particular you tried?
- krupap 17y agoHonestly, for me it was just refreshing every time the connection crapped out. Nothing else seemed to work. I bet they're getting hammered now though so it may take longer than the hour I got away with at 11am.
- assemble 17y agoI started over 3 hours with filling the shopping cart... I'm about to just give up, $100 isn't worth this much PITA...
- krupap 17y agoOh man, that's rough. According to Pahalial, above, they had to restart apache so it may be worth trying again in a while when they have things sorted out more and when the blank screen frustration's worn off...a bit.