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…
Tsujiku
I DONT SEE U HAVING ANY SUCCESS, IM ATH THE SHIPPING AREA
Tsujiku can you tell me where there is written any confirmation of the discount please?
@Stendell – Its not a matter of your router’s timeout. Think about 10,000 people trying to run through a doorway. Its all about getting in at the right time. You gotta be like George Castanza and push that old lady over, getting your syn in when a connection slots available. And then… praying it completes the connection.
This is stupid, i have been trying to check out sine 10am sharp, keep getting timeouts or kicked back to the cart. Whats the point of this if no one can get anything.
Looks like there all out.
Damn
it’s over, god fucking damnit, 1 hour and 46 minutes of my life I can’t get a time refund on
It’s over :(
Forget it. 99,4k
SparkFun Free DayHas concluded!$100,000.00 was given away in:1h : 44m : 50s
91,627.98
I got through! I was about to remote into a school computer with a gigabit internet connection, but it looks like I got through on my crappy Clearwire connection. Still waiting for a confirmation email, but at least I have an order number and a screenshot of the confirmation page.
I ordered a 6DOF IMU, $89.95
im so happy im gona get a arduino starter kit for only 10$ for the shiping :)
oh well
its done
Just loaded, and it said it was over. 100k given away in 1h 44m.
looks like it’s time to go take a dump cause the core-dump is done
Well, that’s it. $100,000 come and gone. I bet we can log into the site now at least…well in 20 minutes or so.
it’s over
have been sitting at the shipping page for the entire time, got no where, wtf?!
gg guys.
I got stuck at the sign in page…
farewell my huge solar panel
FML… I’ve wasted 1h 44m doing nothing… ugh
And it’s over
Noooo!!!!! its all over!!!!
Looks like I never got to check out :(
time to hit ebay, cheaper anyway…
Congrats to everyone who got through, condolences to the rest of us.
Epic fail sparkfun !!!!
Has concluded!
$100,000.00 was given away in:
1h : 44m : 50s
dang – ready 2 hours before in an 9 computer lab, each computer was logged in with the shopping cart up, after an hour and a half of constant refreshing all computers I got to the credit card part and… fail.
I have no idea how anyone actually got through.
I got stuck at the shipping page :'(
I wish I could have flagelled faster.
You know thinking about it the time weve spent either leaving work earlier or starting work late we could of used that money towards this….
Pressed submit button every time it refreshed for two hours and not one worked. That was really annoying.
Now it time to beat crap out of Mike for spreading out internal news
does anyone know what time it finished? i guessed 11:37:26 for that $200 competition
so disappointed, i got to the screen where you entered in your cc details when it was at $175, and it could never get past it..
hrm..
i don’t think ill be using sparkfun again, if this is how they treat their customers
SparkFun Free Day
Has concluded!
$100,000.00 was given away in:
1h : 44m : 50s
SparkFun Free Day
Has concluded!
$100,000.00 was given away in:
1h : 44m : 50s
$100,000.00 given away!
Quit bitchin’ about the script kiddies, unless you know one that’s reliably gotten around a captcha.
Folks, c’mon, can’t you see the good part of this giveaway?
(Spoken as a guy who didn’t get jack, but still had a bit of fun anyway)
ARRRRGGGH
I was AT THE SUBMIT BUTTON!
For the last 50k…
And I didn’t get in…
;-;
I’m done with hack-a-day, you guys ruined it for people who actually know how to use the stuff sparkfun sells. Now 1000 idiots have just bought 100 worth of stuff the don’t know what to do with.
I’m prety annoyed with sparkfun too, 1:45 minutes waiting for the damn shipping page to load. I’m gonna go buy my xbee from ebay now.
Free day done. I didn’t get in as a result of their servers getting hosed combined w/ slow proxies at the company here.
Shitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshit!
heh… NOW the payment page loads… the irony is not lost on me, and I may order the stuff anyhow… no, wait, robotshop has it for $10 each (wanted 2)… think I’ll go save $20 elsewhere. Sorry Sparkfun, you’re just too expensive now. oh… the irony.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Conformation page loaded with $0.13 left
Dammit i knew i should of been more optimistic in that guess compition!
clicked submit order, last step, 3 separate times. all 3, no go. 3 complete chances, from cart to “submit this order to try for the free day discount” and still no good. thanks anyway sparkfun.
Im gonna go buy the stuff off ebay but before people start selling off there freeibies on ebay dont want to be funding the lucky people :p
@asc
What the crap are you talking about “treat their customers”? Are you blatantly slow? Did your parents drop you on your head? I didn’t get anything either, but I’m not sobbing about a company that gave away 100,000 dollars worth of their merchandise to their customers with good intentions. Tell me, do you get all pissy when it’s not you who wins the lottery? “oh, boo hoo! i’ll never buy a lotto ticket again!” Do us all a favour and shut it. If you didn’t get anything, you didn’t get anything, pansy.
Well its over, and now the site is working again, fail sparkfun, very disappointed, I feel this slowness was done on purpose, makes me less want to buy from them again for this poor performance of a show
This was utter crap. I tried to get something for 2 hours before up until it closed. Nice work on the servers.