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Re: Reminder: 1/7/10 is SparkFun Free Day (get a free Arduino)

#51

Post by p4ncur » Thu, Jan 07, 2010, 5:09 PM UTC

krupap wrote: post #44

It looks like I'm one of the fortunate few who managed to place an order. I had an account set up beforehand but didn't have my cart full until 10:45am or so. SparkFun was, indeed, exceedingly slow but my tactic of pressing "refresh" every minute or so seems to have paid off. I'd say it was an hour's worth of effort in total. Best of luck and keep trying!

What was the page you saw after clicking sth like "Yes, i want to get this stuff by Sprakfun Free Day"? I was able to get only to that moment and the next site (after a milion of "refresh") is just blank... Do you know anything about it?

Re: Reminder: 1/7/10 is SparkFun Free Day (get a free Arduino)

#52

Post by krupap » Thu, Jan 07, 2010, 5:14 PM UTC

p4ncur wrote: post #51

krupap wrote: post #44

It looks like I'm one of the fortunate few who managed to place an order. I had an account set up beforehand but didn't have my cart full until 10:45am or so. SparkFun was, indeed, exceedingly slow but my tactic of pressing "refresh" every minute or so seems to have paid off. I'd say it was an hour's worth of effort in total. Best of luck and keep trying!

What was the page you saw after clicking sth like "Yes, i want to get this stuff by Sprakfun Free Day"? I was able to get only to that moment and the next site (after a milion of "refresh") is just blank... Do you know anything about it?

The page went blank for me too after pressing "yes, I want free stuff..." but refreshing that blank page 10-20 times got me to a "congratulations" page with a SparkFun guy wearing a crown and an order email in my inbox (though my order total, which was well over $100, didn't reflect the $100 off I'm assuming it came through...but I saved the congrats page just to be sure).

Re: Reminder: 1/7/10 is SparkFun Free Day (get a free Arduino)

#53

Post by assemble » Thu, Jan 07, 2010, 5:17 PM UTC

krupap wrote: post #44

It looks like I'm one of the fortunate few who managed to place an order. I had an account set up beforehand but didn't have my cart full until 10:45am or so. SparkFun was, indeed, exceedingly slow but my tactic of pressing "refresh" every minute or so seems to have paid off. I'd say it was an hour's worth of effort in total. Best of luck and keep trying!

I appear to be stuck on the shipping address page--just refreshing when the connection craps doesn't seem to work. Anything in particular you tried?

Re: Reminder: 1/7/10 is SparkFun Free Day (get a free Arduino)

#54

Post by shpxnvz » Thu, Jan 07, 2010, 5:18 PM UTC

Hmm, I'm seeing:

SparkFun Electronics is Temporarily Closed!

SparkFun Electronics has been temporarily closed while necessary upgrades are installed and configured. Please be patient and check back soon. We're working tirelessly to make this down time as brief as possible.

Mid-rush server upgrades?

Re: Reminder: 1/7/10 is SparkFun Free Day (get a free Arduino)

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Post by Pahalial » Thu, Jan 07, 2010, 5:18 PM UTC

shpxnvz wrote: post #54

Hmm, I'm seeing: SparkFun Electronics is Temporarily Closed! SparkFun Electronics has been temporarily closed while necessary upgrades are installed and configured. Please be patient and check back soon. We're working tirelessly to make this down time as brief as possible. Mid-rush server upgrades?

They had to restart apache, according to IRC.

Re: Reminder: 1/7/10 is SparkFun Free Day (get a free Arduino)

#56

Post by krupap » Thu, Jan 07, 2010, 5:22 PM UTC

assemble wrote: post #53

krupap wrote: post #44

It looks like I'm one of the fortunate few who managed to place an order. I had an account set up beforehand but didn't have my cart full until 10:45am or so. SparkFun was, indeed, exceedingly slow but my tactic of pressing "refresh" every minute or so seems to have paid off. I'd say it was an hour's worth of effort in total. Best of luck and keep trying!

I appear to be stuck on the shipping address page--just refreshing when the connection craps doesn't seem to work. Anything in particular you tried?

Honestly, for me it was just refreshing every time the connection crapped out. Nothing else seemed to work. I bet they're getting hammered now though so it may take longer than the hour I got away with at 11am.

Re: Reminder: 1/7/10 is SparkFun Free Day (get a free Arduino)

#57

Post by assemble » Thu, Jan 07, 2010, 5:26 PM UTC

krupap wrote: post #56

assemble wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I appear to be stuck on the shipping address page--just refreshing when the connection craps doesn't seem to work. Anything in particular you tried?

Honestly, for me it was just refreshing every time the connection crapped out. Nothing else seemed to work. I bet they're getting hammered now though so it may take longer than the hour I got away with at 11am.

I started over 3 hours with filling the shopping cart... I'm about to just give up, $100 isn't worth this much PITA...

Re: Reminder: 1/7/10 is SparkFun Free Day (get a free Arduino)

#58

Post by krupap » Thu, Jan 07, 2010, 5:38 PM UTC

assemble wrote: post #57

krupap wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, for me it was just refreshing every time the connection crapped out. Nothing else seemed to work. I bet they're getting hammered now though so it may take longer than the hour I got away with at 11am.

I started over 3 hours with filling the shopping cart... I'm about to just give up, $100 isn't worth this much PITA...

Oh man, that's rough. According to Pahalial, above, they had to restart apache so it may be worth trying again in a while when they have things sorted out more and when the blank screen frustration's worn off...a bit.

Re: Reminder: 1/7/10 is SparkFun Free Day (get a free Arduino)

#59

Post by kellishaver » Thu, Jan 07, 2010, 5:49 PM UTC

It's over now... I could never get the actual page to load, but the error message was in the URL, saying Free Day has ended.

I made it to the final page of the order confirmation process with $72k left to give away and could never get past it.

Re: Reminder: 1/7/10 is SparkFun Free Day (get a free Arduino)

#60

Post by shpxnvz » Thu, Jan 07, 2010, 5:50 PM UTC

kellishaver wrote: post #59

It's over now... I could never get the actual page to load, but the error message was in the URL, saying Free Day has ended. I made it to the final page of the order confirmation process with $72k left to give away and could never get past it.

Same here. Worst part is that I started with an account signed up, a full shopping cart, and my address already entered the moment it started.

Still never got the payment to go through.