You should know what its like trying to access the spark from south africa! this site has been unreachable for me for over an hour.. I even filled my cart up ready to go 3 days ago! oh well.. I tried.

For some reason I thought I’d actually get one. I’ll check back in an hour.

The Site was up one hour ago , that it vanished …

had it up and realised i hadnt updated my shipping info. D’oh.

@greensasquatch
nobody who’s just trying to set up a cart now has a chance in hell of getting anything.

Got through, $180 given away so far.

http://webchat.freenode.net/
#sparkfun

$75.90 given away so far. someone got through.

my cart is working now, so I may get through… we’ll see.

Yeah, what’s fascinating here is that it said only $175 had been claimed so far. I think nobody’s getting in, period. I suppose this means it’s going to be the incredibly diligent/determined people that stick around for a few hours who actually get the loot.

Oop. Well, now it looks like that number is swiftly rising.

im at the payment options.. but i think ita about to commit suicide

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$175 as of 9:12. Sadly, none if it mine.

This is freaking rediculous…..been waiting to add more to my collection from them, and I get shit upon by the moochers…

I can’t get fucking in!

$807.29 : as of 11:15

I can’t get to my checkout page :(

1002.19 given away according to the irc channel

I made my order up last night, bar is at 800 dollars. as my shopping car finally showed up… here’s to getting further lol.

Just saw 807.29… before I lost it.

I’m kinda bummed out because I know when it comes up it will say 100k of 100k given away.

Maybe we can crash hackaday by all logging onto this thread while waiting for sparkfun to come back to life…

$1602.14 as of right now.

I tried logging on to Sparkfun eleven hours ago and I couldn’t do much because other than the login screen, the web would say “Cannot find server”. I tried several times today and I cannot get on.

I think it is a great idea but it is unrealistic to think that it won’t hurt their customer’s feelings to be offered something they cannot get. In many ways the negative advertising from people who can’t win overshadows those who may get through.

They could have offered $100,000 of free shipping to different customers and more people would have been happy.

The reason I stay home a lot on Black Friday is because stores offer deals that are unrealistic. They’re giving away something and there is only six per store and there are eighty people in line so they want me to come out but they don’t really want to cut their costs from their already high prices. One store did that to me so I went to their competition and bought the product and never went back to the store that offers empty promises.

~$800 as of a few minutes ago

1202 now

Eh, you can’t really blame it too hard on “moochers.” This was pretty heavily publicized all around, and there’s thousands upon thousands of people who believe they have a legitimate need/claim/entitlement for this stuff that goes above and beyond the standard nooblecake. We’re all mooching together, here.

lol i got to the shiping page wooo and 1,900 given away so far

this sucks… i wanted to get a aundrio starter kit but i forgot to set up my cart and i cant get past the home page

$2002 so far

I dont see how any one can really complain about not getting free stuff… if you wanted it that bad you would have bought it.

yeah it sucks that we cant get in but that life!!!

its teasing me with the payment options page!!!

Wow… this is almost as bad as trying to register for classes….

I think their load balancer is down.

i think they might just run out of time. before the 100.000 has been given away. as nobody can do anything ;) good thinking LOL

i get credit for aranging a free giveaway. not having to giveaway anything due massive DDOS shopping spree… sweet

i saw 78$ given away last time
anything loaded..

2292.04 now

Was able to get to my shopping cart… $2002.14 given away so far