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- mp94564, on 10/12/2007, -4/+171i was soo pissed... amazon stopped responding about 3 minutes before.
- blapierre, on 10/12/2007, -7/+117Anyone who was "refreshing for hours" is an idiot. They said it would go on sale at 11am so all you had to do was show up then. Anyone who was refreshing Amazon.com at 10am this morning is just a moron.
- boxgamex, on 10/12/2007, -3/+66people like you is why it crashed. why do you need ANOTHER 360
- EmailAddress, on 10/12/2007, -4/+60what a sham... I couldn't even login 5mins before the buying and I couldn't access the page till 14 minutes after. Wow this ***** blows. I'd understand if 1000 were sold with the servers working fine and stuff, since we'd all have a fair shot, but here?? Luck? Network?? *****.
- thatsmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+51If anyone gets one, I'll meet you in the McDonald's parking lot at 2am to buy it from you.
- gauntalus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+52another? you ass, let us 360-less folks have a chance
- gauntalus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+48yeah, same for me, i am sad :(
damnit!! - afx1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45It was either this or a Wii. Guess I'm getting a Wii.
- unloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37Don't worry. It didn't load with the secure server at 11 either. I tried that; you didn't miss anything :-(
- zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34I would have been more open to an idea where you click a button saying which 'deal' you want and then it randomly picks 1000 'winners' from the list of available users that want to buy one. At least that way it would have been controlled and many people would have at VERY least thought they had a chance rather then just letting the randomness of 'whoever happens to be able to load the page through the horrendous lag' get one.
Doing it this way to me seems no better than if a Best buy said to a mob of people "We only have 20 PS3's in the store so the first 20 through the front door gets it". Then having the entire mob rush the front doors. - mkearl, on 10/12/2007, -4/+37$20 says there weren't any and it was a big marketing ploy to get us all to Amazon.com. Jerks!
- itzfritz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32At 1:58 EST Amazon stopped responding, in NY.
Dammit.
Still isn't responding :( - curtissthompson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32I got through to page for simple math problem and submitted..but wasn't quick enough..I'm sure i was close, but didn't receive answer to problem quick enough...it's pretty random for something like this.
I would of liked to see something like a very difficult math problem, or something to make it a bit less random, and give people who couldn't load the page because of mass traffic a chance.
Amazon definitely should of handled this a bit differently than first lucky people to connect to their servers quickest...and rather had some sort of challenge for people to accomplish and the first so many people to do it, would get the deal....something that wouldn't make it completely dependent on connecting to their servers to send math answer at the exact moment it went live.
not that this should be a surprise or unexpected
We'll guess I'll be getting a 360 premium edition from CompUSA for 200 bucks instead later tonight (via 200 dollar in store credit/discount received after purchasing a motorola Razr phone with new service plan, I my father decided he needed a new phone, and is extending that credit to me, as he has nothing to do with it himself. :) ) - Coven, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31I'm amazed anybody even got through. Even the Amazon.com homepage is still unresponsive.
- redandgold, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30same here, refreshed and after two minutes, this image came up^^
- mp94564, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27I wonder if ANY digg users managed to snag one?
- nbx909, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30yeah i'm still at unresponsive, i got the screen shot from a friend :(
If you used https:// you can by pass the unresponsiveness-- https://www.amazon.com/gp/holiday.html//ref=cu_vo_gw_wa/002-5015886-1720054?ie=UTF8&id=cv%2Fhomepage - mp94564, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27WOW thats a good idea wish i'd thought of that at 10:59
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23I was able to get through, but after it asked me what 15 + 8 is, it said sold out. I got to the question page at exactly 11:00:04 Pacific, and it told me it was sold out at 11:00:10 Pacific. Thats at most 10 seconds before it sold out.. likely around 10-20 a second was sold. I was using 3 computers and a server on 2 different connections and failed.
- OregonTrail, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25As soon as I saw that happen I immediately suspected a modified SYN flood.
Someone could flood them with the first couple packets having a spoofed IP, which would route the AC to another computer waiting for the reply, and thus everyone else would not have a chance to connect as the first computer is still flooding.
Of course it may just have been all the legit TCP requests - elv1s77, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22I live about a mile from Amazon HQ, I'm on a T1 line, and started loading @ 10:57 and still didn't get it. :(
- 3mta3, on 10/12/2007, -8/+29GREAT JOB AMAZON. YOU SUCK! YOUR SERVERS COULD NOT EVEN HANDLE OUR REQUEST AND NOW YOUR WEBSITE IS DOWN.
- boxgamex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20if you would have read the site, you had to go through the holiday vote page to get the $100 price.
- tc811, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Everybody digg this article out of your disappointment =*(
- CheckMarshall, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/checkmarshall/ScreenShot001.jpg?t=1164317661
I got mine.....cant believe I did, I never win anything. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Note to microsoft. Pssst....offer $100 xbox 360s and watch your software sales rocket into the stratosphere.
- verifex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I'm not sure where Amazon's servers are located, but if it is anywhere near Seattle, I was able to get the page to refresh 1 minute before 11am, then 1 minute after 11am, with 140 secs of lag between the refreshes. I hope amazon preps some servers for the next time they do something like this.
- drum_bum, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Meh, I only wanted the Barbie doll anyway
- Moose_Head, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16@extratwice: They made it explicitly clear in the instructions that One Click would not get you this deal. This was also confirmed a dozen times on Digg.
RTFM next time, good luck reversing that charge. - gauntalus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20notice that neither the mongoose bike, barbie dancing princess, or prime membership are sold out :p
- RamseyK, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Sums the moment up: http://amazon360.ytmnd.com/
heh - jonshipman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I think he's referring to the original NES console
- digid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I was able to click on the button to get the item... I entered in a skill testing questions(what is 2 + 12) and then it took about 4 minutes for the submission to go through when it said:
"We're very sorry!
This item is no longer available at the special Customers Vote price. As we stated earlier, our supply was limited, and that supply didn't last long at this bargain price." - DanmanD87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I would have gotten one, but apparently if you add 8 and 4, you don't get 12
- beatmonger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I think it's unfair to blame Amazon's "crappy" servers. They say there were 1.5 million people trying to get a PS3 from Costco (a members only retailer), so you can only imagine how many people were sitting there reloading the page on Amazon (and I was one of them).
On the other hand, this promo seems poorly planned. The odds were incredibly small that any single person would get one, but it did succeed in pissing a lot of people off and crashing their servers.
Better yet - maybe they just did it for publicity - in which case it was brilliant. The amount they lost in markdowns is probably a drop in the bucket compared to all the free advertising they got. - itsxtian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12i'm heading out of town later tonight for my daughters graduation in nicaragua, could you ship it there?
- AhrenBa, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15God Damnit, that makes me sooo mad. I wonder how many people tried the HTTPS trick? I wish I would have done that! I am just so pissed that Amazon didn't do anything before hand. Didn't they know that they were going to have a crapload of traffic?
- audiologic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10This brings up the painful memory of registering for classes. 5000 students all trying to access the same web server at 12:01 am. Takes 1 or 2 hours until you finally get a server response.
- jonshipman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11The :$ is a retarded smilie while https: is a secure protocol.
- ezweave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10@derek
Actually, it does. Physical distance affects propagation times... the longer the line, the longer it takes to travel that distance. Light only travels so fast through a given medium, and the total distance does matter. Additionally, longer distances require further hops to transfer the packets (network topography). So someone in the same town as a given server is hosted, assuming they use the same backbone (and they do, connections actually funnel down, geographically) he can access a server much faster. And you may just have a horrible ISP that bounces your packets around a bit before they get to you.
Since too many routers dump bad datagrams, it doesn't always work, but you can always run traceroute (tracert in windows?) to count hops and the latency between the hops. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Don't worry folks, you will be able to purchase those very same units on eBay tomorrow!
- mayan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Damn that sucks man. You got a lot closer than 70% of us though.
- thejokell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I got one. Proof here if you don't believe me:
http://www.thejokell.com/web/xbox.jpg - poxonyou, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I tried. Actually thought I had a chance, haha. I was thinking, "Everyone is visiting family on Thanksgiving. Barely anyone will be using a computer." Plus, I visited Amazon several times an hour before to make sure everything was okay with my account and the site was as fast as normal. Of course, it didn't help it was posted on Digg 100 times, on Amazon's front page, on gaming news sites, etc for a week or two straight. Anyway, now back to PS3 hunting in the wild real world.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Im sure it did very well considering that at least 50,000 or so people (+/- 10,000) was refereshing that page constantly for 10 minutes.
- unloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9*****.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Noone posted with the "OMG I GOT ONE" yet.. I give them 3 minutes
- OregonTrail, on 10/12/2007, -12/+20If I had gotten this, I would have sold it towards the Wii. ^_-
- bparker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11https://www.amazon.com loads fine (note the https)... but of course it's already sold out
- klawz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9T1 doesn't matter either, in fact a t1 is slower than most cable/dsl lines now-a-days anyways, especially the download. My up is 3, down is 10.
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