Amazon Vote

[Gdepp519]

they had a math question?!? lolol.. u serious?

 

[commOdog]

anyone that suggests that they keep refreshing the page to deny amazon.com service will be visited later by 2 black suburbans and taken to Guantanamo for questioning........

 

[kindest]

holy lag

 

[foolish501]

Originally posted by: milagro
Doesn't seem like a smart business move if this deal kills anyone from reaching amazon to buy anything....almost like they should call it "ddos attack invite day"

i was thinking the same thing, they are losing $175,000 just on the xbox 360 deal, and then killing the site for anybody that wants to try to shop.

 

[trevor0323]

lol, Im just kidding, I coulndt even get the damn Amazon page to load, I figure most people that got them are closer to the Amazon server.

 

[Foghorn]

feh

 

[Auzner]

not even a ping http://www.altimex.net/albums/auzner/amazonxbox360.png

 

[trevor0323]

This sucks, Now what am I going to do with all these controllers and AV cables I bought in anticipation of winning this?

 

[cruzer]

It's funny - the slickdeals forum crashed from all the angry posters trying to vent their frustrations.

 

[milagro]

Originally posted by: Auzner
not even a ping http://www.altimex.net/albums/auzner/amazonxbox360.png

hahahaha.....classic

 

[ivwshane]

I synced my time to time.nist.gov and amazon updated at 10:59! Those damn bastards:|


Oh well.

 

[Spikey217]

I was there are 1:59 EST. Hit refresh and never saw the page load.

Just like Woot's BOC. Never had a chance since the page never loaded.

 

[Auzner]

Originally posted by: trevor0323
This sucks, Now what am I going to do with all these controllers and AV cables I bought in anticipation of winning this?

That's called counting your chickens before they hatch.

 

[SLEEPER5555]

i cant get the page to load even pings aint wrkn!

 

[kissfan003]

Gone in less than 7 minutes

 

[aries2k1]

i had a laptop and 2 desktops with amazon already loaded. at 10.59.59 refreshed one, 11.00.00 refreshed another, and 11.00.01 refreshed the last. Was able to get one. Already paid for it and received my confirmation email.

 

[imported_Tides]

i got to the deal page in time (i loaded the page 5 minutes early only for it to load about a minute after 11), but it'd take about 5 minutes to go from page to page even with a low ping cable connect. you pretty much had to be lucky, and hope your request to access another page was dealt with before millions of other people.

 

[milagro]

the three pages I refreshed at 10:59 are still not loaded...

 

[commOdog]

we killed it!!

I bet Bezos is shitting himself

**edit***

its back

 

[Dyloot]

Originally posted by: milagro
Doesn't seem like a smart business move if this deal kills anyone from reaching amazon to buy anything....almost like they should call it "ddos attack invite day"

It's Thanksgiving. This is probably a slow time for them. This was a real easy promotion to get lots and lots of folks to their site prior to the holiday shopping season.

 

[kissfan003]

Congrats

 

[Gdepp519]

Originally posted by: Auzner
not even a ping http://www.altimex.net/albums/auzner/amazonxbox360.png

hahahaha.. i always knew it was a far fetched longg shot.. maybe tomm.. will have some really good deals..

:brokenheart:

 

[wilki24]

Yeah, this isn't very smart if it grinds the site to a halt for even 15 minutes. I bet some network engineer is laughing and saying, "I told you so!" to a stupid marketing guy right now on a conference call.

Not getting it one thing, but not having the entire freaking website respond for that long is just frustrating.

 

[imported_Tides]

congratulations to whoever won, had to be immensely lucky, good job.

 

[cruzer]

What a crock! I bet there are 1,000 "friends and family" of Amazon employees that are celebrating.