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I assume it's sold out in the UK. For a brief period of time the 16gb model showed as being available, but a very buggy shopping cart meant that it was nigh on
by buro9 14y ago
I assume it's sold out in the UK.
For a brief period of time the 16gb model showed as being available, but a very buggy shopping cart meant that it was nigh on impossible to actually checkout.
Now it's showing as "coming soon" again.
Edit: And now I've just received the email saying that it's available... oh no it's not.
- digitalclubb 14y agoThis was so frustrating, to add the item to your cart, to then be thrown constant errors and being unable to proceed. Of all the people, you would have expected Google to be able to handle the traffic.
- ryanhuff 14y agoYou would think so, but this isn't new for Google.
- godbolev 14y agoWhen has this happened before?
- alvarosm 14y agoGoogle checkout/wallet is possibly the worst product Google ever made (excluding products that were eventually killed). If you've ever used it as a seller you've probably come across multiple issues that are never solved despite many people desperately trying to contact google (mostly failing to contact any human being, let alone one that would forward issues to developers) about them. It's no surprise it couldn't handle shit. The team left Google a few months ago too (there were some stories here about it I think).
- ryanhuff 14y agoHere's what I get now when I search for Nexus 4 on the Play Store: "We're sorry, there was an error. Please try again later." They simply cannot handle this kind of event on their own. If I try to check out, I also get this: "An error occurred while processing your purchase. Please try again later."
- mikeevans 14y agoGoogle IO tickets for the past 2 years.
- petepete 14y agoThis was indeed frustrating; in my attempt to buy a Nexus 10 this morning I inadvertently bought two - I definitely only saw one purchase confirmation screen, though. I'd have expected better from Google.
- ditoa 14y agoSame for me. SO annoyed right now.
- kiallmacinnes 14y agoI managed to get an order in - seems it sold out in UK in about 3 minutes!
- kiallmacinnes 14y agoPurchased from: Google Commerce Ltd Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4 +353 (1) 436 1001 Why exactly did I have to order through the UK again? Grr Google! (Thats an Irish address, but it's not on sale in Ireland)
- pdaddyo 14y agoI'm sure this is pointing out the obvious, but it's 'sold' from a Dublin address due to the corporation tax breaks. It's effectively one massive tax dodge - google / amazon / dell etc put all sales through Irish shell companies, really does boil my blood!
- kiallmacinnes 14y agoI know - But still! How can they not at least cater to us Irish though!
- jsnell 14y agoIt's not a significant tax dodge in this particular case though. VAT is paid to the country of the consumer, not to the country of the retailer. Any corporate tax on the profits of the sale id going to be tiny in comparison.
- Tyrannosaurs 14y agoThe fact that on one individual sale the damage is minimal is pretty irrelevant - you don't get to pick and choose what you pay tax on. Google in the UK had sales of £2.5bn. It has a group wide profit margin of 33% so let's assume profits of £800m and yet paid £3.4m in corporation tax (as opposed to the £220m you'd expect at standard corporation tax rates). As someone who does pay tax at the full rate in the UK, I'd quite like it if they did too.
- archivator 14y agoI need to investigate the Wallet API (and whether the Play Store is using it) but I'm pretty sure it was the Google Wallet checkout popup that actually kicked the bucket. The Play Store site was really snappy, actually. The order that visibly went through was redirected to the full Wallet site. I say "visibly" cause apparently one of the popup ones went through as well. Oh, well, I'm sure one of my friends would appreciate it.