As I’m sure many of you already now, today is January 7th. While that might not have any real significance normally, today this means that our favorite hobby supplier, SparkFun, is giving away up to $100,000 of electronic goodness. We know we have our shopping carts filled to the brim, and we’re sure that most of you do too. With the start of Free Day being roughly 10 minutes away, we recommend that everyone man their shopping carts…. This should be interesting…
5295.09 so far!
3,547.19 so far
asc, forget the icons and try:
https://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/checkout_shipping.php?refresh=1
I was worried when I saw Sparkfun’s upgraded server setup that there was no way it would handle something like this.
6411.94!
twitter is going psycho with disappointed posts.
loading, just slow
@asc
Same here.
6k
I have to admit that this whole event is quite amusing.
They should pause freeday and put there severs in a cloud environment
got in, but cant nav :(
I can’t even get the site to load….been trying for an hour so far
Another URL at the end of the tunnel is
https://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/checkout_process.php
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.
anyone know how many more pages after payment checkout?
I’ll give up at 12 (got work to do).
it sickens me thinking of all the people who dont need this free stuff like us hackers. they just turn around and sell it like dicks!
Just got into the main page. Almost $6000 given away and only 11 hours until it ends!
Site is down, down, down…
Self inflicted DDOS attack!
I hope at least some of us hackers get through
if I see some items sold on ebay …
@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.
7500 given away so far
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.
@Sobachatina
sure we all expected a few thousand people to hammer the site before hack-a-day announced it. But now we probably have closer to 10,000 n00bs going “OMGzzz FR33 STUFZ I WANT 5 BLUSMIRF, WFT IS IT NEWAYZ?”
SparckFun server room smoking and on fire !
https://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/login.php?redirect=/commerce/categories.php%3F
LOgin URL
What is the over/under betting on when the first of this stuff starts flooding Ebay?
What finally got through to checkout and got this:
Sorry, you do not qualify for any Free Day discount.
Free Day discounts only apply to physical items (no classes or gift certificates) paid for by credit card or PayPal. You are still welcome to submit your order normally.
But I only have physical items.
$8,466 so far… clicked checkout again. We’ll see.
im just going to call them and place my order by phone…
Crap busy..
im geting closer im at the check if u get 100 dollars of button
$8,960 so far
This reminds me of my free Dr. Pepper…
I think that the whole thing is a hoax. If only someone will post here that he/she actually placed a free order…
was at this 100$ button 20 min ago :-/ still not finished
I actually got to add 1 thing to my basket!
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?
F it I’m just gonna go buy some stuff at adafruit.
started at this $100 button, no dice.
I got 2 pages loaded at once. I might be recovering.
@rac: lol
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/sparkfun.com?p=tgraph&r=home_home
I’d love to check this out in a few days.
9456.52 given away so far
$10,354 so far… I was amazed to see the page load, after waiting for anything for the last 20 minutes… >.<
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
Has anyone here gotten through?
$10,067 on a rare load. Haven’t been able to check out myself though.
I got to the home page, clicked the log in button… POOF!
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Gone…
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oh well, thank goodness for snow blowers, better go get some more moolah !
guess ill have to pay!
I THINK SPARKFUN IS PUTTING THE MONEY STUFF UP THERE TO SHOW THAT THE SITE WORKS, YET IT DOESNT,, SO THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE MAD!!!