geduxaz:
BIG - for SPF… didn’t they expect such amount of connections? why thei didn’t prepare earlier… waste of time in hope of miracle… think never will come back to spf…
They did prepare earlier. If you read the blog, you would have read about the shiny new servers. I’m sure they’re set up to deal with well over 100% normal capacity. What you (and all the other complainers) don’t understand is that this is an abnormal load.
Ed
so when they say “prepare for free day” they secretly mean the opposite. neat
I think it’s hilarious, the sense of entitlement that “old-timers” have.
If Sparkfun had wanted to reward their existing/old customers, they would/could have. They wanted to get publicity for their site, which they did probably beyond their wildest expectations!
P.s. - hung up on “continue to select a payment method” with $57,641 showing
unsped:
it will be ironic that after giving away 100,000 dollars in free stuff there is a high probability that the net result will be:
new unlikely to be repeat customers with multiple accounts and scripts will get the majority of sales, the majority of those will be resold.
loyal customers will spend hours staring at a blank webpage that won’t load, be late for work/school ultimately give up and be mad at sparkfun for how poorly the thing was run and ultimately have a worse opinion of the company.
i applaud them for trying but i think the growing pains might sting a bit. i think it probably should have been a lottery system where winners had a ‘day’ to redeem the codes (tying the code to an account or shipping address)
however if you think about it maybe the sparkfun crew are very smart, if its slammed all day and it ends at 11pm they might only give away 20-30 dollars worth of stuff
in all seriousness best of luck to you guys!
IAWTP.
sense its meant to be a thank you to everyone should of locked it down to people who have at least 1 order already.
Ide be interested in seeing some stats as to the % sales for this free day who were first time and then in 6 months see how many of them have bought anything else.
yes i am grumpy about it. no there’s nothing i can do about it.
lol so true, just go on ebay in a week and check out all the SF goodies.
