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So my advice is to not refresh the page. Keep 2 tabs open. If you get the 'there was a problem' message...go to the other tab and refresh THAT page until its back.
Then head back to the cart and continue pressing, "proceed"
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What I did last time was click to "Proceed" from the cart, even if you get a "Oops, we had trouble processing your request" error and the button is no longer blue. Eventually I was able to order the phone that way, instead of refreshing the page which removes the item from your cart. This might not work this time around, but it's worth a shot.
This worked for me after about 5 minutes of clicking.
Aaaaand it's gone.
This is one of the worst shopping experiences I have ever had. I have seen it come in stock several times now, but when I add it to my cart and try to proceed to checkout, I get "Due to high demand, your order could not be processed. Please try again later." This happens every time until eventually I get the dreaded "Oops, we had trouble processing your request. We're working on fixing the issue. Please try again lat…
What I did last time was click to "Proceed" from the cart, even if you get a "Oops, we had trouble processing your request" error and the button is no longer blue. Eventually I was able to order the phone that way, instead of refreshing the page which removes the item from your cart. This might not work this time around, but it's worth a shot.
It only leaves your cart if you refresh the page while the other page turns to 'out of stock' So my advice is to not refresh the page. Keep 2 tabs open. If you get the 'there was a problem' message...go to the other tab and refresh THAT page until its back. Then head back to the cart and continue pressing, "proceed"
This is unfortunate though as I was trying to use the Nexus as an opportunity to migrate off iOS.
EDIT: Finally got it after 1 hour of running the script.
It only leaves your cart if you refresh the page while the other page turns to 'out of stock' So my advice is to not refresh the page. Keep 2 tabs open. If you get the 'there was a problem' message...go to the other tab and refresh THAT page until its back. Then head back to the cart and continue pressing, "proceed"
Google is their own worst enemy here with such a crappy check out process, I would not need to have several computers and browsers hitting their servers to get one Item. Why not let us pre order and send the darn thing when it comes in? Why open the ordering for a small window of time while we all eat bandwidth and time?
This is ridiculous. Now I've been at it for two and a half hours. If I did not see the device disappear from my cart a few dozen times, I may have just let it sit in my cart for a few hours before hitting "submit" a couple dozen times per minute over the past couple hours!
Who comes up with this sales model?
But Google, if you want to play this game, take a page from Amazons book. In comparison to my recent black friday experience there, the Play store handling of the demand is a piss poor disaster and wasting people's time. Certainly creating a lot of ill will and an organic DDOS at the moment.