Comments on: $100 free from your favorite hobby supplier! http://hackaday.com/2009/11/24/100-free-from-your-favorite-hobby-supplier/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:30:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Brooks http://hackaday.com/2009/11/24/100-free-from-your-favorite-hobby-supplier/comment-page-1/#comment-115843 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:58:59 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=18680#comment-115843 Update:

“Sparkfun free day has concluded! $100,000.00 was given away in: 1h : 44m : 50s”

I got far enough to get to the “register as a new user” page, where I saw that. Sigh.

]]> By: jd http://hackaday.com/2009/11/24/100-free-from-your-favorite-hobby-supplier/comment-page-1/#comment-115813 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:50:17 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=18680#comment-115813 Yay! I just got through, order conformed!

Then the order tracking page, “2010-01-07 – Credit Card (Authorize.net) (debit) +$114.84″ :-(((

Now what is up with that? I think their complaint department is gonna be very busy if they pull that trick…

]]> By: Brooks http://hackaday.com/2009/11/24/100-free-from-your-favorite-hobby-supplier/comment-page-1/#comment-115663 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:18:29 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=18680#comment-115663 guy: That’s weird. It says $17k now.

I keep trying to update my cart to get 3 boards instead of just 1, and it keeps not working and I give up and just reload the shopping-cart page, which occasionally works.

And now they’re back to the “SparkFun Electronics is Temporarily Closed!” page.

]]> By: Chris http://hackaday.com/2009/11/24/100-free-from-your-favorite-hobby-supplier/comment-page-1/#comment-115575 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:53:31 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=18680#comment-115575 Slow I think actually, their website is just up the sh*tter! Doesnt strike me as particularly professional advertising if you ask me!

]]> By: guy http://hackaday.com/2009/11/24/100-free-from-your-favorite-hobby-supplier/comment-page-1/#comment-115569 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:52:02 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=18680#comment-115569 Damn, that was fast… Site is now at $97.541. Maybe next time :-(

]]> By: guy http://hackaday.com/2009/11/24/100-free-from-your-favorite-hobby-supplier/comment-page-1/#comment-115508 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:33:08 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=18680#comment-115508 Site is at $4509 now, 32mins in.

]]> By: jd http://hackaday.com/2009/11/24/100-free-from-your-favorite-hobby-supplier/comment-page-1/#comment-115482 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:28:10 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=18680#comment-115482 IMHO, those that didn’t have their cart waiting at the submit order button can better stop trying. It’s dead.

I got as far as a page saying ‘order confirmed’ in the title, but the page itself was empty. We’ll have to see tomorrow if my Christmas stocking has been filled :-)

]]> By: Brooks http://hackaday.com/2009/11/24/100-free-from-your-favorite-hobby-supplier/comment-page-1/#comment-115457 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:23:25 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=18680#comment-115457 It’s not completely dead. I got far enough along to build a cart, and it tells me that $1408 out of the $100000 has been given away so far, at 8:18am PST (18 minutes in).

]]> By: jd http://hackaday.com/2009/11/24/100-free-from-your-favorite-hobby-supplier/comment-page-1/#comment-115429 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:16:59 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=18680#comment-115429 I wonder who will end up getting their order through.

1) he who is lucky
2) he who is persistent enough to wait until everyone else gives up
3) he who is as clever as to script the ordering process

Any bets?

]]> By: Chris http://hackaday.com/2009/11/24/100-free-from-your-favorite-hobby-supplier/comment-page-1/#comment-115421 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:15:39 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=18680#comment-115421 A lucky dip would have been a far better idea IMO… Could have said you have 5hours to put in an entry and then the first 1000 drawn get free stuff. They could have even done their guess the time for free stuff to sell out by telling people to email in the number of entries to be expected in total…

]]> By: Pete.L http://hackaday.com/2009/11/24/100-free-from-your-favorite-hobby-supplier/comment-page-1/#comment-115414 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:12:59 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=18680#comment-115414 Not surprised their web server croaked. I can’t even ping it now.

R.I.P. SparkFun web server.

]]> By: jd http://hackaday.com/2009/11/24/100-free-from-your-favorite-hobby-supplier/comment-page-1/#comment-115409 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:11:55 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=18680#comment-115409 I love competitions!

]]> By: gege http://hackaday.com/2009/11/24/100-free-from-your-favorite-hobby-supplier/comment-page-1/#comment-115363 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:55:32 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=18680#comment-115363 … and i’ll get my geekstaff from somewhere else.

]]> By: gege http://hackaday.com/2009/11/24/100-free-from-your-favorite-hobby-supplier/comment-page-1/#comment-115359 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:54:12 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=18680#comment-115359 Free day is fuckin fiasco! Maybe they get lots of people trying to get free money, but nobody can’t even sey their logo!

bad advertising..

]]> By: adam http://hackaday.com/2009/11/24/100-free-from-your-favorite-hobby-supplier/comment-page-1/#comment-115357 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:45:49 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=18680#comment-115357 Looks like we killed it. Damn, guess i won’t be getting any free stuff.

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