heh...I decide to log on at home for once....(this rarely happens) and I come and see that a discussion about buy.com's selling of ps2's sparked a nearly 300 post long thread and I'm thinking...sheessh...now what...
so...after skimming the posts...let me clarify a few things..
1) No, they didn't go out at the stroke of midnight EST...there was a glitch (don't know the details yet, won't know till I go into the office in the morning) in rolling it live...from what I was able to get over the phone in a conversation with a friend, sounds like our cache servers decided to take a puke last night for a bit..
2) THERE WAS NO CONSPIRACY BY ME OR ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES TO PUT IT IN THE BUSINESS STORE. That link merely said business in it. Look at the URL originally posted...it had to of have had something like this in the URL... "loc=XXXXX" where XXXXX is some arbitrary number... well...that number isn't so arbitrary.. it controls what breadcrumb trail links we leave, what links are in the side nav, and most importantly, what CONTENT IS DISPLAYED... you can switch the blue and green *almost* for any URL in our site by going business or retail in the URL (i.e. www.us.buy.com/retail/department.asp?loc=273 is the same page as www.us.buy.com/business/department.asp?loc=273). They just look different.
WHY someone posted here w/ the URL as a business product beats me. If people hit up the URL w/ the retail path instead, woulda been the identical page.. or at least *should* have been. perhaps this situation occured BECAUSE there was some server glitch this evening.. all I know is I got a call around 9:30 pm or so from a relieved coworker that the systems were finally up and for sale... (that's PST).
3) Future DOTD for ps2s... this I cannot confirm or deny. I simply do not know. buy.com had an initial allotment of 250. We sold those tonight. As I posted before however, we got another rush batch of 100 or so sent to our office (not our warehouse, so they couldn't be part of the initial sale).. The rumor's i've heard is that some will be part of some promotion (DOTD? contest? giveaway? I do not know...I don't work in marketing) or perhaps they could just be driven over by some employee to the warehouse and then put up for sale.. anyone saying look for it as a DOTD has information that I'm unaware of.
To everyone who got a PS2 from us tonight...thanks for the business and I'm sure the games manager appreciates the business. I'm personally saddened that Sony USA forced us to bundle everything like that, but c'est la vie I guess.
To all those who didn't get one yet, my apologies even though there really wasn't anything I could do to help ya guys out.. blame Sony for the shortage..
don't kill the messenger, just tellin' it as it is man....
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so...after skimming the posts...let me clarify a few things..
1) No, they didn't go out at the stroke of midnight EST...there was a glitch (don't know the details yet, won't know till I go into the office in the morning) in rolling it live...from what I was able to get over the phone in a conversation with a friend, sounds like our cache servers decided to take a puke last night for a bit..
2) THERE WAS NO CONSPIRACY BY ME OR ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES TO PUT IT IN THE BUSINESS STORE. That link merely said business in it. Look at the URL originally posted...it had to of have had something like this in the URL... "loc=XXXXX" where XXXXX is some arbitrary number... well...that number isn't so arbitrary.. it controls what breadcrumb trail links we leave, what links are in the side nav, and most importantly, what CONTENT IS DISPLAYED... you can switch the blue and green *almost* for any URL in our site by going business or retail in the URL (i.e. www.us.buy.com/retail/department.asp?loc=273 is the same page as www.us.buy.com/business/department.asp?loc=273). They just look different.
WHY someone posted here w/ the URL as a business product beats me. If people hit up the URL w/ the retail path instead, woulda been the identical page.. or at least *should* have been. perhaps this situation occured BECAUSE there was some server glitch this evening.. all I know is I got a call around 9:30 pm or so from a relieved coworker that the systems were finally up and for sale... (that's PST).
3) Future DOTD for ps2s... this I cannot confirm or deny. I simply do not know. buy.com had an initial allotment of 250. We sold those tonight. As I posted before however, we got another rush batch of 100 or so sent to our office (not our warehouse, so they couldn't be part of the initial sale).. The rumor's i've heard is that some will be part of some promotion (DOTD? contest? giveaway? I do not know...I don't work in marketing) or perhaps they could just be driven over by some employee to the warehouse and then put up for sale.. anyone saying look for it as a DOTD has information that I'm unaware of.
To everyone who got a PS2 from us tonight...thanks for the business and I'm sure the games manager appreciates the business. I'm personally saddened that Sony USA forced us to bundle everything like that, but c'est la vie I guess.
To all those who didn't get one yet, my apologies even though there really wasn't anything I could do to help ya guys out.. blame Sony for the shortage..
don't kill the messenger, just tellin' it as it is man....
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This is not a Hot Deal. Please post this in the Moderator sponsored ~~~~ Brag & Moan ~~~~ thread.
Thank you,