Google Nexus 4 goes on sale in US/Canada

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Post by tobyjsullivan » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 4:42 PM UTC

Google Nexus 4 goes on sale in US/Canada
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Re: Google Nexus 4 goes on sale in US/Canada

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Post by AYBABTME » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 4:51 PM UTC

The website seems to be overloaded, it keeps throwing errors whenever I try to place my order.

[Edit] tried many times, further I went was the Visa processing thing which never went thru as the devices ran out of stock.

I understand the limited stocks, but I find it peculiar that Google can't handle the load on the Play Store.

Re: Google Nexus 4 goes on sale in US/Canada

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Post by Avitas » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 4:56 PM UTC

AYBABTME wrote: post #2

The website seems to be overloaded, it keeps throwing errors whenever I try to place my order. [Edit] tried many times, further I went was the Visa processing thing which never went thru as the devices ran out of stock. I understand the limited stocks, but I find it peculiar that Google can't handle the load on the Play Store.

10:50 CT

I am able to add the 16 GB version to my cart, however, I am unable to click the Proceed button without generating a Google Wallet window with an "Uh oh. There was a problem." message inside.

Re: Google Nexus 4 goes on sale in US/Canada

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Post by bryanlarsen » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 4:57 PM UTC

AYBABTME wrote: post #2

The website seems to be overloaded, it keeps throwing errors whenever I try to place my order. [Edit] tried many times, further I went was the Visa processing thing which never went thru as the devices ran out of stock. I understand the limited stocks, but I find it peculiar that Google can't handle the load on the Play Store.

I managed to make it all the way through on my third try. My first try got pretty close to the end before dying. I'm fairly sure that I didn't order two phones, but it's certainly possible that I did. I imagine it will be pretty easy to unload if that happened...

Re: Google Nexus 4 goes on sale in US/Canada

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Post by tobyjsullivan » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 4:57 PM UTC

AYBABTME wrote: post #2

The website seems to be overloaded, it keeps throwing errors whenever I try to place my order. [Edit] tried many times, further I went was the Visa processing thing which never went thru as the devices ran out of stock. I understand the limited stocks, but I find it peculiar that Google can't handle the load on the Play Store.

I had the same issue for the last 20 minutes. Now it appears to be sold out... so clearly it worked for someone?

Re: Google Nexus 4 goes on sale in US/Canada

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Post by maayank » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 4:59 PM UTC

Soldout.

Added it to my cart, kept trying to proceed with the order but it kept saying there was an error (in their ajaxy way) until it showed an empty cart and on the product's page the "in stock" changed to "coming soon".

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Post by thedangler » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 4:59 PM UTC

Yeah, It flaked out on me too. I don't think I got one.Never did receive an email about it going on sale.

Re: Google Nexus 4 goes on sale in US/Canada

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Post by ryanhuff » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 5:01 PM UTC

I had it in my shopping cart after multiple errors on the site, only to have it disappear, and now its unavailable again. Seriously Google?

If Google expects people to funnel their financial transactions through them, they have to get this kind of thing right. This is the third time they have proven unfit to handle this kind of rush.

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Post by artemus » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 5:01 PM UTC

I managed to order one, after struggling with the checkout process for around 10 minutes @ 11:50 ET. I think I have seen at least three different types of errors, on the cart as well as during the payment stage.

Re: Google Nexus 4 goes on sale in US/Canada

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Post by Avitas » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 5:02 PM UTC

11:00 CT

The 8 GB version now shows availability and the 16 GB version does not. It is not clear what is happening with regards to site/infrastructure issues or sold out status of the 16 GB version.

11:05 CT

The 16 GB version briefly showed itself as available. I successfully added it to my cart. But, I immediately received an error when trying to check out.

11:10 CT

Both the 8 GB and the 16 GB are not showing availability.

12:06 CT

Because I kept seeing them become available on and off over the past hour, I had a feeling it was an infrastructure problem. Every 5 or 10 minutes, I logged out, logged in, saw that they became available, added them to my cart, tried to check out and received an error. That led me to believe that they're just having issues.

I was able to successfully order both the 8 GB and the 16 GB at 11:57 CT and 12:04 CT respectively.

Clearly, the cries of "SOLD OUT" being heard across the web are incorrect.