[Cialug] Sparkfun Free Day?

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:49 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
>> > I caught a glimpse of the page a bit ago and only a little over $700 had
>> > been given away.
>>
>> I'd bet that most people can't get in to complete the checkout
>> process.  I can't even get to the first step of the checkout.  If I
>> ever do some sort of e-commerce system I'm going to use Google,
>> Amazon, or a similar system so that I can deal with loads like this.
>>
> Why? If user's can't checkout, .. they don't have to give the money away!

Bad PR...  If you don't want to give the money away, don't make the
offer...  Plus, I bet that a lot of people would have ordered more
than $100 worth of merchandise.  I was going to order approximately
$140 worth.

> Had no luck even getting to the main page from here - constant timeouts.

Neither did I... Now I likely won't be ordering anything...

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Jeff Ollie