I am so upset that some of you can even connect…last page I saw was the “we are adding servers…blah” page around 10AM EST….this sucks

Anyone who doesn’t already have an account set up from yesterday should just stop now, you are not going to get it set up, and you are just bogging thigns down for the rest of us.

This reminds me of when Amazon did a black friday sale when the xbox360 came out for $99……

I hope I can get through before my meeting in 30min.

3152.09 and counting…

lol welcome to the club inm stuck on shiping too

THX hack a day, you do it. The most stupid denial of service in the world.
As people comment, most guys will just buy things that even don’t know about it, or how work. Just because it’s free.
I’ts intended as a sharing day with regular customers. Now it’s ruined.

No luck here, and all I want is a few membrane potentiometers. :(

I can’t even -see- the site, let alone get an update of the count. Sigh. I took the morning off work for this… oh well, thems the breaks.

SHIT I FORGOT ABOUT THE FREEDAY.

“Problem loading page”

oh shit.

The Hack-a-day affect in effect…

time and time …out… wonder how long people will be persistently refresh that site for 100 usd…

3.5 k given away im already at credict card page go go go

It’s like the break room with left over cupcakes on the counter.

I can’t get anything!!!!!!!

THE PAGE IS NOT LOADING!!!

Why get angry at Sparkfun? We get free shit in exchange for them stress-testing their system. How could anyone not see this coming?

Has anyone here gotten checked out?

@SparkFun Associate
Damn – I was about to try that trick!

Just saw 4,695.00 as given away so far. Great idea, bad execution.

SparkFun Free Day
Is open! Time remaining:
11h : 28m : 30s
Get those orders in!
$3,844.79 given away so far!

$4795.09 are gone already
I’m almost at the last step

oh well

They should have made this for previous customers only or something. People have made tens of thousands of new accounts in the last day, many fraudulent duplicates by people wanting multiple orders, many by people who will just try to get free high-dollar stuff to flip on Ebay.

Its an awesome idea, but I have the feeling that SparkFun didn’t foresee this big of a problem.
They actually are asking people on the internet to use the honor system?

$4,495.09given away so far

5k last I checked and apparently I haven’t updated my address. F.

They’ve sparkfun’d themselves.

Posted at 9:34 am on Jan 7th, 2010 by Mitchel Humpherys

Nice!!!! A new meme in the creation.

5295.09 so far!

asc, forget the icons and try:

https://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/checkout_shipping.php?refresh=1

6411.94!

loading, just slow

6k

They should pause freeday and put there severs in a cloud environment

I can’t even get the site to load….been trying for an hour so far

No one should be surprised- from the beginning this was sure to be a lottery. We’re all queued up waiting for a socket on the servers.

Anyone who thinks that hackaday announcing this changed anything at all is delusional.

I’ll give up at 12 (got work to do).

Just got into the main page. Almost $6000 given away and only 11 hours until it ends!

I hope at least some of us hackers get through

@nerbert

They’ll probably be the first to leave, realizing it’s not worth 10 hours of their life for $100 of merch which they’ll get maybe $50 for.

Did my order last night, right up to the “confirm order” button. All I had to do this morning was push it and leave.
Instead they now added an extra button on the bottom
asking if you want the discount or not, and asking you to extra pages. Now I’m stuck hammering the servers with everyone else.

I really hope they back over the idiot with a forklift who told them that puny server setup could handle calling in a worldwide DDOS attack on themselves.

SparckFun server room smoking and on fire !

What is the over/under betting on when the first of this stuff starts flooding Ebay?

$8,466 so far… clicked checkout again. We’ll see.

im geting closer im at the check if u get 100 dollars of button

This reminds me of my free Dr. Pepper…

was at this 100$ button 20 min ago :-/ still not finished

This reminds me of K-Mart on Black Friday. Now wheres the fat chick laying on the floor trying to put her wig back on?

started at this $100 button, no dice.

@rac: lol

9456.52 given away so far

im sure some of them will work 10 hours for $50 its probably more then they make in a week… that doesn’t include there on the side hustling/robbing people.then again people buying so many guns nowadays maybe their victim list is dwindling lol

$10,067 on a rare load. Haven’t been able to check out myself though.