I'm always amazed with how people just assume that Digg is the almighty master, and because this was Dugg, you all got screwed. Hello? Amazon is a big site. I would venture to guess that this was advertised somewhere on their site, as well as every game site known to man, as well as every deal site on the net. Grow up people. 1,000 unit, billions of people. It's like trying to win the lottery. You really don't have much chance, but you try anyways. At least this didn't cost you any money.It always does suprise me how big sites like this do go down under the traffic pressure though. The same things happens often on sites like Ticketmaster, where an onsale starts, and the site immediately dies. I often wonder if sites pull things like this to stress test their servers (aside from the obvious publicity they received, of course).
I don't see how this benefits Amazon or Microsoft. It costs $200,000 for the Xbox sale (1000 units, $200 off normal sale price). Plus the cost of the employees preparing for this (at least 10s of thousands). Then you have at least tens of thousands of pissed off people who don't get the xbox. You have the whole Amazon site down for almost a half hour. Which means they may have lost 100s of thousands more in sales, since no one could access or buy anything from them during that period.Bad idea. Everyone loses.
bdlouNov 23, 2006
I'm always amazed with how people just assume that Digg is the almighty master, and because this was Dugg, you all got screwed. Hello? Amazon is a big site. I would venture to guess that this was advertised somewhere on their site, as well as every game site known to man, as well as every deal site on the net. Grow up people. 1,000 unit, billions of people. It's like trying to win the lottery. You really don't have much chance, but you try anyways. At least this didn't cost you any money.It always does suprise me how big sites like this do go down under the traffic pressure though. The same things happens often on sites like Ticketmaster, where an onsale starts, and the site immediately dies. I often wonder if sites pull things like this to stress test their servers (aside from the obvious publicity they received, of course).
test5477Nov 23, 2006
such crap, i tried and it never loaded from :55 til :09 and they were gone. im still going to buy one but it wont be from Amazon
wunchNov 23, 2006
LOL, even the bike is sold out now, too :(It was a pretty nice deal, as well.
l337fanboyNov 23, 2006
This wasn't the only article on the xbox deal that got submitted to digg.<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/search?s=%24100+xbox">http://digg.com/search?s=%24100+xbox</a>
kungpowNov 23, 2006
I don't see how this benefits Amazon or Microsoft. It costs $200,000 for the Xbox sale (1000 units, $200 off normal sale price). Plus the cost of the employees preparing for this (at least 10s of thousands). Then you have at least tens of thousands of pissed off people who don't get the xbox. You have the whole Amazon site down for almost a half hour. Which means they may have lost 100s of thousands more in sales, since no one could access or buy anything from them during that period.Bad idea. Everyone loses.
l337fanboyNov 24, 2006
If you have popular content, you need cachefly. If you don't have popular content, well, then you don't need cachefly. Amazon needed cachefly.
l337fanboyNov 24, 2006
so tell us why you posted again?
kiraevoFeb 20, 2008
You are all going to rue the day I didn't get my $30 bike. <a class="user" href="http://imcheapo.com/forum/">http://imcheapo.com/forum/</a>
vicesuperiorJul 10, 2008
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sebquebecJul 31, 2008
mrlegitOct 25, 2008
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kris85dudeDec 2, 2008
Here it is 2 years later and xbox 360 is still going for 199$+ new. Used would still be 150+.