I can't believe people are crying over Freeday.

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I actually prefer how things went, as opposed to the site being immediately responsive and the deal being over within two seconds. I at least felt I had a chance trying to push and shove my way through the checkout process.

I’ve seen a pretty similar thing happen on Amazon.com a couple of years back. They were selling about 1000 or so XBox 360’s at the severely discounted price of $100 a pop. I tried to get in on it too, but Amazon’s website was slow, unresponsive, and timed out constantly. Before I knew it, all the XBoxes were gone. If a big site like Amazon couldn’t handle that sort of load, I don’t know how anyone expected Sparkfun to do so without any hiccups. And as disappointed as I was for not getting a discounted XBox, I didn’t feel like I wasted my time. I took a chance and lost out that time. I took a chance on Sparkfun’s free day, and lucked out. You win some, you lose some.

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w2hx:
Everyone spent more than $100 in their time to try to get $100. We all feel like suckers. Let me come and learn that I didnt get $100 in a few minutes and we can all go home.

Why the hell would anyone do that? If you can't figure out that is a bad investment of time then your time is probably not worth $50/hr.

Everyone knew from the beginning chances were they weren’t going to get anything (this was ALL over the internet). In that case you probably shouldn’t have invested any more time than you were willing to lose.