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…
$79k
picked shipping options….been waiting for an hour from that point here
EFF it I’m going to AX-Man.
Anybody near Columbia Heights MN wanna join me?
shipping page twice frack!!!!
IM P!SSEDD OFF. THIS IS bs!!
THEY WONT BE HAVING ANY FUN FOR A WHILE
fOCK
the confirmation email does not have the discount in it. I can’t get to the irc channel to tell them.
No chance… no chance…
Looks like the majority of the stuff will go to the guys with scripts
Woot! Finally made it through! I still have to pay up some since I overloaded my cart! But I got my hot air rework station at a significant discount!
Bah, I’m out. It’s lunch time here and I’m hungry. I guess I’ll just have to earn that stuff I need the old fashioned way!
$81,937.75…
Bingo got my order.. it was much more responsive when I went a different route. If you are on Comcast for internet you are HOSED….
62,224.00 @ 09:38 PST.
10h:26m to go.
I haven’t gotten to checkout yet.
I have to pay an extra $7 or something to ship some backordered wire, but I don’t mind.
FECK THE FECKING FECKERS,
IM FECKED!
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Damn, its nearing 75K so far. Luckily i grabbed my 3 arduinos and ran! :)
I only want one item… gimme the f’n payment page already
I can’t believe that you idiots are getting upset about a free giveaway. The freaking Google cache page is slow loading. There literally aren’t enough servers in the world to keep up with this load.
Call it what it is: A DDoS Lottery.
If you get through, you win. My hat’s off to those that have adapted, evolved, and overcome to figure out how to increase their odds. Those are the real hackers, the ones that should be pulling down the prize.
Grow up.
If I wasted two hours of my work day for this, I’m going to be pretty angry. I can see the selection of shipping options, but I’m not getting a continue button :(
It does work! I just got my order confirmed, and a confirmation from Paypal.
Dreams do come true!
@plop @moo same here. My confirmation email is the full $100, I think they’ll take care of it when the smoke clears. I hope.
I even changed the timeout values both in router and laptop, to don’t get timeouts in almost hours of non reply from servers.
The NAT table and memory in the router are fine. The laptop the same.
And even can’t load the shopping cart page twice in matter of fithteen minutes.
I really don’t understand how the fuck the people it’s doing checkouts. Here, 2 hours 35 minutes to have in the cart 1 battery holder. And Can’t update the fucking quantity.
¿There is anybody here that sucessfully placed a full order?
87K
$89,035.52 as of 10:45 MST
It is a DDOS lottery, which is stupid. There is a reason to get upset, as the only people to profit from this are the script kiddies making dozens of orders to flip stuff.
83k as of my last partial load
I got the the login page but can’t get any farther :( last time I saw it was $63k
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BTW… I was using the following to track the status:
watch -n.5 ‘ss ein | grep -A1 207.174.76.106’
Then, I would watch the timer climb and the status. If it didnt hit Estab, or if it did and the timer kept climbing and falling, I just assumed i had no connection, esc’d out and reconnected. God, I love you, ss… oh and you too sf… (I didn’t forget you either HAD)
no chance. friggen javascript verify for shipping.
Almost over… over 90k a moment ago, growing fast…
Now I know what a sperm feels like.
81k
87+
GOT TO THE CHECKOUT… COM ON
$92,000. FML.
SparkFun Free Day
Is open! Time remaining:
10h : 16m : 33s
Get those orders in!
$90,318.77 given away so far!
100k its over in 5min max
nice. announce it to the world. now the whole world wants free shit and those of us loyal customers who actually buy stuff from sparkfun can’t get anything.
this is the first time i’ve been truly disappointed in hackaday. “hey man, nice shot”
GOT TO THE CHECKOUT… COM ON PLEAS EWORK
Woo Hoo! Finally got through. Got me a WyFly to play with.
@Stendall If you didn’t have a cart and account already set up you don’t stand a chance. I’ve been trying to just check out the whole time and just got through
WAHAHAAAA!!!! got 1!!!!
@zach give up now.
I REALLY AM EYENING GETTING SOME JUMPER WIRES
96k
Check your email boxes for confirmations if you made it to the last page and got the $100 discount button.
You’re the idiot.
100k I lost
All done kiddie… $100,0000 given away at 12:45 EST