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…
EDIT FROM FRENCIL:
Wow!
Our site has been up and down today from the unprecedented load we’re seeing. We’re tuning our entire site, top to bottom and inside and out to handle this torrent. We’re also shaving off a few features of the website (temporarily) to make everything faster, such as rating comments. After Free Day has passed we’ll re-enable everything we’ve disabled to weather the storm.
Feel free to join the conversation on our public irc channel: irc.freenode.net #sparkfun
Awesome. Now a WIRE in my setup is backordered… so I can either a) go back to the cart, remove that wire, and pray I can get back to where I am now or b) pay another 4.50 in shipping to get that wire sent to me.
Assuming, of course, I can successfully get to the checkout.
@ stunmonkey
yea Im feeling quite dumb for giving them business in the past right now
Made it to the point of entering the credit card press submit and it DIES
chain-reloading is continuing…
It’s at $46K now
heres a little background info of The cliche kitty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_time_you_masturbate…_God_kills_a_kitten
Dammit! did I somehow screw up my credit info?
so far 43k
Order Successfully Placed… I’m gonna go fix breakfast lol
up to about 27k i was able to load the main site once but not the commerce section booo lol- i hope it slows down before the deal ends :-/
only half left
woot i think i made it!!!!!!!!!
Your order number is blhbalh. Please keep this number for your records.
We will email you shortly confirming that your order has been received and is being processed.
You can monitor the status of your order through the Order Tracking page.
$44,205.48
just saw 41K so far
“Paypal login worked, paypal is now on the callback to sparkfun…. waiting again”
Me to
$32,596 right now
52.8k on my side…
OH MY WORD i got logged in, and my shopping cart (you know the one i fussed over) is all messed up
I dont dare go and change it now tho
looks like its woking
wow….
Congratulations, and thanks for participating in Free Day!
So far $46,730. More than I expected. Very quick.
I have clicked on the Checkout button at least 200 times in last one & half hours. Finally it worked.
Alright! I finally got through.
Tips:
-If you didn’t add things to your shopping cart before last night, forget about it.
-Use firefox, disable automatic loading of images in the preferences.
-You can only use a credit card or paypal. I strongly suggest a credit card.
-Consider going into firefox’s about:config and upping network.http.keep-alive.timeout a little. I’m not sure if they are using consistent connections, but if they are, this could really help you out!
I got 3 steppers, 3 stepper controllers and an ftdi 3.3v usb->serial board. I have been thinking of buying these regardless for quite some time.
Thanks sparkfun!
wait, FAIL AGAIN
Half way…
55,966$
I got to the home page!
its at $56,000
48950$ so far
I somehow managed to get my order 30 minuts ago but on the confirmation they dont mention -100$ …
55 thousnad, F!
over 57,000 just now…been trying since the start and i can only get the page once and a while. Everytime shows me logged out and will not load login page
$58k now
@plop: yep the confromation emial dont mention the 100 off hmm
noooooooooo my cookie is gone :( :(
After paypal it sent me back to the order confirmation page, and it says payment authorized. I’m clicking the try for free order button again…
got confirmation from paypal…
7. Jan 2010 Payment To Spark Fun Electronics Completed
In the confirmation email from SF no mention about the 100$ but paypal shows my shoppingcart value -100$
How is it possible that they’re at $35k? I’ve been trying for the whole hour and a half and haven’t gotten anywhere!
$64,600+ now.
anyone else get trew does your conformation mention the 100 off?
More than half the $ is gone last I checked a minute ago
up to $65k…….. check out wont load for me
How is it possible that they’re at $65k? I’ve been trying for the whole hour and a half and haven’t gotten anywhere!
FAIL FAIL FAIL FFAAIILLL!!!!!!!!1
I MIGHT AS WELL GIVE EM MY 100 BILL ANYWAY, ILL JUST WAIT TILL THE SH!TS OVUR
F 73 THOUSAND
Submitting order for Free Day discount
SparkFun Free Day
Is open! Time remaining:
10h : 24m : 22s
Get those orders in!
$72,254.25
bah… USPS or FexEx. FedEx makes me FedUp and USPS tries to crush things into my mailbox.
i cant belive they was not ready for that! god, this was a good idee but your server is a piece of craps
Going quick now. Just got in, with 75343.44 sold so far.
It’s at about 64k right now. I managed to get to my cart but when I go to checkout it times out so good luck to everyone.
@bob
You try hosting a server with half of the internet pounding into it.