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Total BS!It was total bs! I refreshed the giveaway link @ 11:00 exactly and the page came up about 2-3 mins later only to find out that the item had not gone on sale yet.... refreshed again and it was sold out? Rrrriiiight.... | |
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Re: Total BS!said by ChrisAdan650:It was total bs! I refreshed the giveaway link @ 11:00 exactly and the page came up about 2-3 mins later only to find out that the item had not gone on sale yet.... refreshed again and it was sold out? Rrrriiiight.... I tried too... was getting my "1-click" setting cleaned up then *nothing*. It was probably all employees anyway. Oh well, I already have one. | |
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Re: Total BS!I hope you realize that 1 click ordering it would have forced an order at $300, not $100.
They had a page that described all this for days beforehand. You did read it didn't you?
The deal would have cost amazon $200,000 if everything went correctly, 1,000 xbox 360s at $100 instead of $300 (I bet wholesale is probably $280 or so but I'll discount that) Its ironic, I bet amazon lost more than the $200k just from being down for 10 mins. | |
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Re: Total BS!said by Devistater:I hope you realize that 1 click ordering it would have forced an order at $300, not $100. No, I didn't. As I said I have one and don't really want another... I just got caught up in the wondering if I could get through thing. | |
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said by Devistater:The deal would have cost amazon $200,000 if everything went correctly, 1,000 xbox 360s at $100 instead of $300 (I bet wholesale is probably $280 or so but I'll discount that) Its ironic, I bet amazon lost more than the $200k just from being down for 10 mins. Wholesale is more then 50% off suggested price, sometimes way more. | |
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Re: Total BS!Not on most computer products you order online.
And DEFINATELY not on xbox 360. Why do you think everyone sells it for $300? Because the wholesale price has got to be pretty close to that. My guess is $280. How many xbox 360 sales have you seen that put it much below $300? Usually there's something special involved. Like at compusa recently there was a sign for an xbox 360 for $99, but only if you bought a 2 year cell phone agreement. Which means they are kicking back that much to compusa when they sell that kinda package. MS is already losing money on every one they sell, why would they want to lose more than they had to? They lost about $4 billion on xbox1 even with all the game sales.
Where stores make the money is on small accessories, like belkin cables. Compusa marks them up an average of 800% to 1200% I think its a similar situation with Monster Cables at circuit city. Oh and extended warranties. Those are almost pure profit for stores. Thats why they can be so insistant on asking you about them. That and the employees who sell the most usually get raises more often. | |
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2006-Nov-24 7:26 pm
Re: Total BS!said by Devistater:And DEFINATELY not on xbox 360. Why do you think everyone sells it for $300? Because the wholesale price has got to be pretty close to that. My guess is $280. No business in the world can stay in business on a markup of 7%. Edit:Xbox 360 Premium System Console RRP: $549.99. So $300 would be a deep discount. | |
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Re: Total BS!Except this entire thread, the amazon deal, and the console I was talking about was the core system. Heh, one of my replies you quoted even mentioned that the amazon price was $100 instead of $300. $300 being the retail price of the core system.
(I'm not sure where you get $550 price for premium anyway, thats close to what the PS3 is, and I'm pretty sure the xbox 360 premium is closer to $400).
BTW, compusa this year has had a series of cost plus sales. Like cost +7% sale. If you managed to check out the prices in that sale, you would have seen they aren't really as low as you would expect. In fact a lot of the prices were higher than you see on special sales, because of a number of factors such as rebates, or the stores hoping that people buy other high margin items along with the items that the stores are losing money on. | |
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2006-Nov-24 8:16 pm
Re: Total BS!said by Devistater:(I'm not sure where you get $550 price for premium anyway, thats close to what the PS3 is, and I'm pretty sure the xbox 360 premium is closer to $400). The $550 is *The Manufactures Suggested Retail Price*. If you watch The Price is Right that is the price they use. $299.99 is the price Amazon sells it for. Edit: XBOX 360 Xbox 360 Core Console Video Game System Model: xboxcore360 MSRP: $599.99 » www.megagoods.com/produc ··· ateg=162That site lists the MSRP, a business would get a minimum 50% discount wholesale. So Amazon MUST get more then 50%. | |
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Re: Total BS!Oh come on, now you are getting ridiculous. » www.xbox.com/en-US/hardw ··· esystem/$299 for the core Being as MS is the manufacture, I imagine they would show the MSRP on thier site. $399 for the premium » www.xbox.com/en-US/hardw ··· rosystemAt the very least, if your pie in the sky $600 was true EVER of the core MSRP, it would have been that price at launch. And it never was. The core launched at $300. That site you are listing which claims to be a wholesale dropshipper, the cost of the core xbox 360 is $314 + shipping. Which is higher than every single other major store online OR B&M. Heck you can walk into best buy and get the core for $300. They definately are NOT wholesalers, or if they are they are ripping people off. Your random googling of a site to try and support your point kinda turned up a poor example there. The MSRP of the core system is $300 and everyone is selling it for that price. That particular site is inflating actual MSRP figures. Here's a concrete example that took me just a few seconds to find, if you click on the digital camera category. At the top you'll see an olympus SP-320 camera. That site claims the MSRP is $400. But if you google for olympus SP-320 MSRP, you'll see a number of sites such as this one: » www.dcresource.com/revie ··· ?cam=814That show the MSRP is actually $300. In fact here's a preview of the camera before it was released which shows the same MSRP of $300 (just in case you want to claim that its been lowered over time since the camera's release) » www.imaging-resource.com ··· 320A.HTMOh also, did you take a look at the computer category of that site? Hardly any selection at all. They are definately NOT a wholesaler. And so far the products I've checked have all had inflated false MSRP. | |
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2006-Nov-24 9:11 pm
Re: Total BS!said by Devistater:Oh come on, now you are getting ridiculous. The MSRP of the core system is $300 and everyone is selling it for that price. That particular site is inflating actual MSRP figures. You should not go name calling if you don't know what the MSRP means. Very few items sell at MSRP, Rolex watches from an authorized dealer being one exception. Do you have a link for a MSRP of 300? | |
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Re: Total BS!Go back and read my post. Despite you posting AFTER my extensive edit, you didn't read it.
I got my numbers from the official microsoft site.
And yes, not only did I look at your link, I provided an additional concrete example of them inflating actual MSRP numbers (a digital camera).
Also, for your information there are TONS of products that sell for MSRP, especially right when they launch. One quick example, graphics cards. They quite often sell at MSRP when a new generation is released.
Most B&M stores sell a huge number of items in thier store for MSRP unless they are on sale that week.
Since I provided a concrete example of your site inflating an MSRP (the digital camera), I challange you to provide an example where that megagoods site has the actual verifiable non inflated MSRP on one of thier items.
Its a commonly known scam for sites like that (who are trying to sell products at a higher price that you can get almost anywhere else) to inflate their MSRP prices above what they actually are. Heck, if you google for xbox core MSRP, one of the first hits is a guide about that scam lol.
Oh also, many of their items are refurbished or not new, thats hardly wholesale dropshipper practices!
And finally, if the official microsoft xbox site wasn't a good enough source for you, try googling for xbox core $299 MSRP and xbox core $599 MSRP. You get 10,000+ hits for the former and only about 600 hits for the latter. Doesn't prove anything beyond a shadow of a doubt, but its suggestive.
Look, I can agree with your point that most places can sell many items far below MSRP. Theres no question. There's also no question that the wholesale is below the MSRP, sometimes far below even the actual price you can buy it at. My disagreement is one of degree, not kind in general. Unfortunately, we aren't talking in general, we are talking about a particular item, the xbox 360 core system. An item that does NOT have an MSRP of $599.
I provided an example of the site you linked where they were inflating actual MSRP. I showed you the official microsoft site where they show the price of $299. Now I think you should show me somewhere on the official microsoft site where they mention a $599 price for the core (MSRP or otherwise). | |
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2006-Nov-24 10:22 pm
Re: Total BS!said by Devistater:And finally, if the official microsoft xbox site wasn't a good enough source for you, try googling for xbox core $299 MSRP and xbox core $599 MSRP. I must be missing something. Post the link again to the *official Microsoft* site that shows the MSRP. | |
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2006-Nov-24 11:26 pm
Re: Total BS!I used to work for a video game retailer 4 or 5 years ago. I can tell you the $280 for a $300 system sounds right. We used to make $5 - $10 for every N64 or Playstation sold. The biggest way we'd make money was through selling large quanities of games. Even the markup on those was only about 25%. I'm sure Amazon gets them in bulk as a wholeseller cheaper than a small retailer, but it wouldn't be much of a difference.
Also, video game console companies are very strict with their pricing. I am not sure of the details, but if a store is caught selling a system more than a few pennies below the given price, dealers will no longer sell to them. I am sure Amazon and Microsoft had some deal in making this happen. | |
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The two links I provided to xbox.com (which is a MS owned official site) show the official microsoft pricing. It doesn't specifically say MSRP right next to it. They don't need to, its the official site with the official manufacture price. Another example: » www.xbox.com/en-US/press ··· ails.htmOr the same press release on microsoft.com (thanks rakslice) » www.microsoft.com/pressp ··· ePR.mspxThe official microsoft press release about pricing for xbox on launch. Notice how they announce the price of $299 for the core? Why would MS announce any other price than the MSRP? I think its time you show me somewhere on the official microsoft site (xbox.com or microsoft.com) where they mention a $599 price for the core (MSRP or otherwise, I won't hold you to finding the specific term MSRP). That would prove I was wrong. I notice you didn't respond when I pointed out concrete example of your site inflating MSRP numbers, or indications that site was a price inflation scam site that suckers buy from because they think they are getting a better deal when they aren't. Perhaps I'll find some additional examples of that. The same site shows that the nintendo wii MSRP is $999. This is complete and utter nonsense (even WITH a game. A game isn't going to change the MSRP to 4 times normal). » www.megagoods.com/produc ··· tem=4294100% proof: » www.nintendo.com/newsart ··· c0b&pagenintendo's official press release "MSRP $249.99" Contrast that to MS's press release. They are both announcing initial launch pricing points. Both are prices that stores adhere to very well (likely because of a very small margin). MS didn't mention the term MSRP in thier press release, although nintendo DID SPECIFICALLY USE THAT TERM. So lets try a google for wii MSRP $249.99, and there's 25,000+ hits. Now lets try googling for wii MSRP $999.99 Only 400 hits interesting. Now looking at a few of those hits, what do you know. A bunch of them are ebay or similar auctions trying to convince people to pay more as if they are offering a better deal than they actually are (trying to scam people by showing inflated false MSRP) In fact here's a funny example where they copied, word for word, the exact page from your megagoods site: » auctions.yahoo.com/i:NIN ··· 17427133They are trying to get $700 for a wii! LOL! Here's a similar ebay example: » item.express.ebay.com/__ ··· ressItemSame exact copy/paste and wii for $825 ! Just give it up, admit that the site you poorly choose to give evidence to your argument is trying to scam and falsly inflate MSRP to sell items at a higher price, that our differances are ones of degree, not kind. | |
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Here's a concrete example that took me just a few seconds to find, if you click on the digital camera category. At the top you'll see an olympus SP-320 camera. That site claims the MSRP is $400. But if you google for olympus SP-320 MSRP, you'll see a number of sites such as this one: »www.dcresource.com/reviews/camer···?cam=814 That show the MSRP is actually $300. In fact here's a preview of the camera before it was released which shows the same MSRP of $300 (just in case you want to claim that its been lowered over time since the camera's release) »www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/S···320A.HTM$300 is NOT the MSRP price for the Olympus SP-320. It is the "Estimated Street Price" (ESP, sometimes alternately known as ERP for Estimated Retail Price): » www.imaging-resource.com ··· 769.htmlProducts very seldom sell for their MSRP prices. MSRP is simply a price far in excess of the real retail price, allowing retailers to claim they're selling at a "30% discount" (or whatever) rather than admitting they're selling at the exact same price everybody else is. Another common one is MAP, or Minimum Advertised Price, where authorised dealers are barred from publishing a price below a certain figure in their advertisements or promotional materials, and usually they're also barred from revealing the price on a website before capture of a shopper's identity / adding the item to a shopping cart / whatever. This one exists solely to prop up prices from retailers who are overcharging for a product by preventing the competition from advertising their lower price. | |
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2006-Nov-25 3:43 pm
Re: Total BS!You guys need to compare apples to apples... The profit in a dig. camera is nothing like a game system. I worked at Circuit City for three years. Their cost on the original XBOX1 was $304... they literally lost money on every one of them they sold. (Keep in mind they included the cost of shipping the item to the store in their cost)
It's the games and accessories that have a margin in them, and that's where you'll find difference in prices. It's annoying watching you guys argue over the profit in the console when there really isn't any. | |
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2006-Nov-25 11:51 am
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High end electronics (ESPECIALLY new game consoles) have a very poor margin. The money is in the accessories and games. Why do you think a lot of stores are only selling "bundles"? | |
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2006-Nov-25 7:58 pm
Re: Total BS!High end electronics has margins you cannot think about... When I'm talking high-end, I'm talking about McIntosh amps, Wilson speakers or Ronco projectors... these articles tend to have a pretty big margin (over 70%)... | |
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2006-Nov-24 11:56 pm
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Walmart lives on something like 3% profit margin. As a business owner I can tell you that the norm is around 15% - 20% markup. | |
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2006-Nov-25 1:41 am
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Not true. You're average grocery store stays in business on a margin of 1-2%. Only thing is, a company like Stop and Shop does $40billion in sales a year. You do the math. It's all about volume. | |
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2006-Nov-25 4:00 am
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No business in the world can stay in business on a markup of 7%. Perhaps, but there are some that not only stay in business but thrive on markups of only 14-15% (corporate policy, see Costco). | |
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2006-Nov-25 10:44 am
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groceries sit on an average of 2.8% markup per item. | |
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Most of the computer hardware industry DOES survive on such razor-thin margins. They make up for it in volume. Same with companies like Sam's Club and Costco.
Anyone who sells anything that is considered a commodity deals with tiny margins like 7% or sometimes less. And they CAN survive. | |
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2006-Nov-25 12:25 am
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Wholesale on electronics is TOTALLY different than other consumer items. For example, an xbox 360 video game costs companies about $49. Those who sell it for less on promotion do so to get you in the store. My friend works at Fry's and he'll say the exact same thing.
Wholesale is more then 50% off suggested price, sometimes way more. | |
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Re: Total BS!Sometimes wholesale is >50% off, but not in this specific case, and in fact not the case with any new consoles. And probably not the case with most console games either. | |
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2006-Nov-25 10:08 am
Re: Total BS!My uncle works at Xbox and the employee discount is cost + 10% [of retail] and bought one for him and myself for about $130. The cost of it is $100. I don't think Amazon lost anything - just sold it for cost. | |
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2006-Nov-25 11:36 am
Re: Total BS!said by Ubu :
My uncle works at Xbox and the employee discount is cost + 10% [of retail] and bought one for him and myself for about $130. The cost of it is $100. I don't think Amazon lost anything - just sold it for cost. Microsoft employees do not get discounts on XBox 360 consoles. Either your uncle doesn't exist, or he is lying to you. | |
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2006-Nov-25 10:25 am
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as Devistater points out that's not true on computer products. Computer sales is a losing business in fact ever since the advent of the "cheap pc" type products in the late 90s. Profit in computer sales now comes from extended warrenty, service contracts and "upgrades" which is why salesmen in compusa push those so much. | |
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said by Authority:said by ChrisAdan650:It was total bs! I refreshed the giveaway link @ 11:00 exactly and the page came up about 2-3 mins later only to find out that the item had not gone on sale yet.... refreshed again and it was sold out? Rrrriiiight.... I tried too... was getting my "1-click" setting cleaned up then *nothing*. It was probably all employees anyway. Oh well, I already have one. I was e-waiting and was like when my page finally loaded. Btw, the 1 click option wouldn't have worked per the fine print... | |
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It sounds similar to the night the Wii went on sale. I was up at 3am waiting for it and at 3am the site got really slow but no Wii. They didn't actually put it on until 12pm the next day. Boy were a lot of people pissed. I also read it was on for literally 3 seconds.
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Amazon's servers were Xbox 360s (FRAG) |
It was pretty ridiculous. A massive customer DDOS, by far. I was refreshing constantly, and pages slowed from 2 seconds per reload, to 7, to 30, to nothing at all in a period of five minutes up until it went live. I'd love to see the looks on the people's faces in their NAC or whatever, as everything went to hell in a handbasket. Pretty good idea, this certainly generated an angry flood-storm of people talking about it... | |
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I was e-waiting in line as well - the damn page went no XBOX love for me See my before and after pictures... | |
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I was able to get it and it appeared to be loaded in my cart... then when I got to the next page... I received the "sold out" notice. | |
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I guess I would have felt better if I could have at least loaded the page somewhere close to 11:00 so it could have told me it was out of stock. But I could not load the page for about 8 minutes and I knew by then it was over. With as many people that knew about this I knew I had little chance at getting one, but perhaps they should look at other ways to sell this stuff so that more people will at least get a shot at it. Not being able to pull up the page means you have no chance, at least with the lottery you have just as good of a chance to win as everybody else. | |
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Re: Total BS!said by gc444:With as many people that knew about this I knew I had little chance at getting one, but perhaps they should look at other ways to sell this stuff so that more people will at least get a shot at it. Not being able to pull up the page means you have no chance, at least with the lottery you have just as good of a chance to win as everybody else. I.E. one in a Million (or more) -- You actually had a better chance getting the X-Box than winning the lottery. The long wait was simply your version of 'getting the last 4 numbers wrong'. The people who got the X-Box were the people who actually managed to get the packet timinhgs that allowed them to complete the transaction in the first 28 seconds that it wasn't sold out. If your connections took longer than that, then you didn't win the X-box lottery. | |
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I think it is a complete crapshoot who wins and who loses. Effectively, it's like a raffle. I almost think your timing had to be impeccable, literally within a fraction of a second.
And keep in mind, most people who did not get the deal are going to be pissed off and cry sour grapes, which is normal.
Fear not, I wouldn't be surprised to see the price of the console drop again shortly after the holidays. | |
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Well, maybe if you would have "spoofed" the URL with HTTPS, it would have worked, like it did for me, but I didn't want to buy it, I just wanted to see how busy the site was... | |
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Not BS. There were probably 10 million people trying to get this deal. They were selling 1000 systems. You probably had a 1-in-10,000 chance of being able to buy one of the cheap XBoxes.
Honestly, the math is this simple: whether or not the site went down is irrelevant. They were selling a fixed number of systems. If the site responded perfectly, you had a 1-in-10,000 chance. If the site was sluggish or down for most people, you still had a 1-in-10,000 chance. Honestly, the math isn't even hard. | |
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2006-Nov-26 9:46 am
Re: Total BS!YES! Thank you Jakerome! Common sense and basic mathematics education come to the rescue!
I just roll on the floor holding my gut when people whine "There's no way they sold all of those in 2-3 minutes." Do these people know what the internet is? And that millions of people use it? | |
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2006-Nov-26 1:38 pm
Re: Total BS!said by emptywig: Do these people know what the internet is? Yes I know what he Internet is; TUBES, massive massive TUBES, sticky massive TUBES. With *Net-Neutrality* Amazon, nor anyone else, will ever be able to avoid a situation like this. With *Net-Neutrality* Amazon, nor anyone else, will be able to buy a fast non-sticky TUBE. | |
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Listen, this is the fact Jack, business 101. A retailer wants a 50% markup at retail. Wall-mart does not pay the same price wholesale as the boutique at the mall. Wall-mart has its own distribution chain that not many retailers can compete with. How many boutiques have a fleet of eighteen wheelers?
Now it is only speculation what a particular retailer paid wholesale for a particular item at a particular time in a particular situation. No one in the world knows the answer to that except that particular retailer. | |
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2006-Nov-23 2:26 pm
They Play with the costumersThat's F*&^King BuLL SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs They did not have not Xbox 360 for &100.00 Dollars... That the promotions the want for The Low Life Server. Again Bit Time Bull Shit... | |
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2006-Nov-23 2:28 pm
I wonderHow much traffic is "many users".
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Re: I wonderWell, considering that 25,000 people responded in a SINGLE comment thread to calibrate thier computer time to amazon's displayed post time, and I saw a number of other threads of 1,000 to 2,000 people doing same thing (this was before amazon disabled the posting stuff on that page that everyone was reloading)... And only a fraction of people actually post on something like that...
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2006-Nov-23 2:29 pm
RippedI refreshed and refreshed, and within 30 seconds they were sold out. Somehow I doubt it...
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2006-Nov-23 2:30 pm
BSWhat a bunch of bull... I started refreshing 3 minutes before 11 and never got a single page to load until 2 past 11 with the xbox sold out... So much for amazon... Even if the customer vote thingy is not canceled for next week, I'm not gonna bother. Pie in the sky.... pie in the sky. | |
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2006-Nov-23 2:34 pm
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disappointing experienceI attempted this on a 100mb pipe from a QWEST cybercenter, plugged straight into their internet backbone and while i got to math 101 page instantly, amazon's web server was so slow that IE eventually timed out with a "page can not be displayed" obviously at that point it was too late.
in theory i should have had a decent shot at this, as far as getting my request into their system but if their webserver can handle the requests, it doesn't really matter what your internet connection speed is.
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I actually saw...I actually saw the Get this Deal button right on the dot at 11am PST. I clicked it and it said page not found, and from that moment on, amazon.com wouldn't load any pages for me.
So, I shoulda got the deal. Stupid amazon.
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Iridium3
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2006-Nov-23 2:36 pm
Promotion not giveawayYou didn't get anything for free. | |
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cob_1310nm Of Goodness Premium Member join:2003-07-08 Tulsa, OK 1 edit |
cob_
Premium Member
2006-Nov-23 2:36 pm
DammitNext week's deal vote appears to be going in the stupid portable DVD player direction. Vote for the drill folks! | |
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Re: DammitThat DVD player is the worst item they have up. I have a B&D 18V cordless drill and I love it. Best tool I own. | |
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Re: DammitToo bad its a 12v and not an 18v thats the choice. | |
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swintec Premium Member join:2003-12-19 Alfred, ME |
swintec
Premium Member
2006-Nov-23 2:38 pm
High Speed??Would a high speed connection really make a difference in this case?? Even with dial up, you became just another connection for there server to deal with, which is what killed this deal. | |
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Re: High Speed??Nope, exactly as you say.
See above posts, like the one from a guy in a server room with a 100mbit connection to the amazon backbone | |
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cbrigante2Wait til Next Year Premium Member join:2002-11-22 North Aurora, IL |
Idea?I guess Microsoft has the answer on the magic price point to bury the competition on this round of consoles. Put the core for sale at $100, and everyone else eats dust. | |
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Rick5 Premium Member join:2001-02-06 |
Rick5
Premium Member
2006-Nov-23 3:01 pm
Ah well..it was all in fun. And so too is reading about it and peoples experiences here on BBR.
Obviously, Amazon got absolutely hammered from tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people simultaniously.
What would be interesting to know is some of the official stats behind it from Amazon themselves. But I doubt they'll be doing anything in the near term except picking up smoldering server pieces off the floor and wondering how next time, they can improve on this.
Cut em some slack and let the ones who won, be happy. And Kudos to Amazon for their very generous thanksgiving giveaway. | |
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texans20 Premium Member join:2002-09-28 Texas! |
texans20
Premium Member
2006-Nov-23 3:25 pm
How did Anyone get oneIf the servers were responding so poorly, how did anyone end up with one? I find it fishy that so many people were able to complete the checkout process with such an apparent overload. | |
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TychicusChildren are our most precious resource Premium Member join:2002-01-18 Helena, MT |
Tychicus
Premium Member
2006-Nov-23 3:27 pm
typicalI have not ordered anything from amazoned for over 5 years now good to see they continue the battle for top notch customer service | |
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Subaru1-3-2-4 Premium Member join:2001-05-31 Greenwich, CT |
Subaru
Premium Member
2006-Nov-23 4:00 pm
wont be longtell someone brings up a news story about this and how they slammed them out. | |
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yeayea i tryed getting it, it stoped working like 2 minutes before 2 and 10 after 2. i wanted one so bad, i would only get it for $150 no more then that, its not worth it. | |
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abadaba join:2005-09-25 Mason City, IA |
OMG I had the GET Deal BUTTON!What really pisses me off HORRIBLY; is that i got the "Get this deal" button! I clicked on the damn thing EXCITED AS HELL! And then like 4 mins later the page times out!!! I can tell you this. It was a marketting ploy; a good one at that. It drew alot of attention too their site. You can gurantee now the attention they are going too be getting is not wanted!!! And too think i set my clocks on my PC's too PST too get crapped on by their servers!! | |
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PLEASEbuyaCLUE
Anon
2006-Nov-23 4:43 pm
FOOLS rush in...How many suckers are hatched each second? | |
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Sucker5
Anon
2006-Nov-25 6:09 am
Re: FOOLS rush in...You people are pretty foolish. You think that there weren't WAY more than 1000 people waiting for this offer, and since you didn't get one, it didn't exist? Why would anybody think that it would last for more than 30 seconds? 1000 isn't a large number at all. | |
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