I’ve placed an order opting to pay with paypal, but I was not redirected to login to paypal. This might have been due to an extension I have in firefox, or because there were some backorder items. But now when I click “settle balance” in the order details, it’s asking for my credit card details and doesn’t give me the option to pay with paypal.
Quazar:
I just posted several comments on the main site blog and tutorials. Even though the posts previewed OK, all the formatting was stripped away and the text posted as a single unbroken blob.
I think I figured it out at last. I had assumed the ‘>’ quote tag is used per-line of a quote, but it seems to mark the entire remainder of the post as a quote.
This prevents bottom- and interleaved-posting; forcing you to top-post only. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style if you don’t know what these terms refer to).
Lastly, the preview button does not show an accurate preview. This is particularly annoying since you cannot edit or delete a comment after you have posted it. Preview is your last chance to get it to look right, but it fools you into thinking it looks right.
Thanks for listening,
- Dean
Either the commenting system is buggy and eats news post comments, or SparkFun’s got some severely hyperactive censors on board.
In any case, the two comments i’ve posted yesterday (in no way inflammatory or derogatory), which showed up (previewed?) fine at first disappeared without a trace after an hour or so. Which makes me wonder what the ratio of shown / posted comments truly is, as well as how much censorship is going on on the site in general.
orcinus:
Either the commenting system is buggy and eats news post comments, or SparkFun’s got some severely hyperactive censors on board.
The two comments I see from your user are located @ http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/235
Are these the comments you’re referring to?
Yup, they are.
Odd, they weren’t there before. And i’ve checked one last time some three days or so after posting them :shock:
Sorry folks, false alarm. :oops:
My shopping cart got emptied today 
Is there a time limit for shopping carts? I was and am logged in so it’s not a cookie or session problem.
My shopping cart also got emptied today, but I have one item left(well 2 of the same items). Shall I begin clicking and selecting my 40+ items again or is this temporary in some way…?
Anyway, nice job with the new site!
// Gregof
Clicking RoHS icon brings up information with close icon in bottom right of overlay window, close button doesn’t seem to be clickable.
Can still get out with ESC key
Using Firefox 3.6.13
404 when clicking on “[tell us about your project” at the bottom of http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/181](http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/project_call.php)
Just going to echo this one - though in my case, it's subtracting a non-random (that is to say, it's always the same) amount from my order total.wackojacko10101:
at the check-out that when you click calculate shipping it , adds a seemingly random amount to the total. ( ranging from $3.67 AU to $7.61 AU)
As far as I can tell, this happens with all currencies -except for- the U.S. Dollar.
Specifically, this is what I’m seeing:
If I go to my cart ( http://www.sparkfun.com/cart ), I have a total / particular item (LinkM) cost of:
AUD: 136.29 / 30.29
CAD: 133.58 / 29.69
EUR: 100.69 / 22.38
GBP: 84.95 / 18.88
USD: 134.75 / 29.95
Now if I click the “Calculate Shipping” link and select an address after going to the cart page / selecting a currency, I get the following total / particular item (LinkM) +shipping cost after the numbers are updated -again-:
AUD: 137.84 / 30.64 +29.89
CAD: 132.42 / 29.43 +29.29
EUR: 75.24 / 16.72 +22.08
GBP: 53.55 / 11.90 +18.63
USD: 134.75 / 29.95 +29.55
In that “-again-” seems to lie the problem. Taking for example the original EUR total cost over the USD total cost:
100.69 / 134.75 = 0.747236
Now apply that same factor to the already established cost of EUR 100.69:
0.747236 * 100.69 ~= 75.24
Which happens to be the oddball number suddenly presented after choosing the shipping address.
It looks like the culprit(s) is/are in sparkfun.js . The number-to-currency code (render_currency: function() which, by the way, is really neat - my computer is old and slow, so I can actually watch it in action 
) is run again (this.render_currency(shipping_calculator)) when selecting the shipping option (show_shipping_quotes: function(address_book_id, addresses)).
The intent is undoubtedly to convert the shipping cost from USD to whatever currency applies, but as render_currency always applies itself to -all- span elements of class=“price”, the conversions on individual cart items and the total price are converted ‘again’ (and again and again if you keep clicking the calculate shipping + address links (e.g. user changes their mind and selects a different address) right down to a total of EUR 0.00).
Plenty of ways to solve that one; personally I’d make it render_currency(container) the value of container being the container element whose descendants one would want to affect (defaulting to the main document if not supplied), and update show_shipping_quotes accordingly - though a more robust (additional) method is probably to store the value one wants to convert separately from the value that is actually being displayed to prevent rounding errors should the currency selector become all AJAX-ified as well.
Regardless, and thankfully for you guys at SparkFun, the correct totals are still in the actual payment processing pages. But it can be rather confusing: I was wondering why I was suddenly being offered such a great deal, even if I had to add shipping costs.
Back to shopping… that Logomatic v2 is agonizingly tempting and I must read the materials to see if it fits my needs.
Greg Radion:
Clicking RoHS icon brings up information with close icon in bottom right of overlay window, close button doesn’t seem to be clickable.Can still get out with ESC key
Using Firefox 3.6.13
Turns out there is a clickable area, but it does not line up with the image/text, it is a bit below the close area and is too small.
When modifying my member profile there is no way to change my Country which is currently set to United States.
That is in the store profile, not the forum btw.Greg Radion:
When modifying my member profile there is no way to change my Country which is currently set to United States.
Hey,
Calculate shipping does not work for me if I have [SparkFun Inventor’s Kit for Arduino or [SparkFun Inventor’s Kit for Arduino with Retail Case in my cart. All I get is this line:
undefined: €NaN
which appears several times.
If I remove the inventor’s kit from my cart, calculate shipping works.](http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10339)](SparkFun Inventor's Kit for Arduino (Old Stock) - KIT-10173 - SparkFun Electronics)
I have noticed that if your shipping or billing address (in my case, the town/city) has an diacritical mark, as many French-named cities in Canada have, it is displayed as “null.”
Hopefully this could be fixed to reduce confusion?
News items are being listed all out-of-order on http://www.sparkfun.com/news.
What’s expected: News items to be listed chronologically, from most recent at the top to longest ago at the bottom.
What’s happening: News items are ordered by some other means, it seems to be the number in the URL, from largest number at the top to smallest number at the bottom.
Right now, the dates read:
February 24, 2011
February 23, 2011
February 22, 2011
February 21, 2011
February 18, 2011
February 17, 2011
February 14, 2011
February 11, 2011
February 10, 2011
February 09, 2011
February 08, 2011
February 07, 2011
February 04, 2011
February 03, 2011
February 02, 2011
January 31, 2011
January 28, 2011
January 27, 2011
February 15, 2011
February 01, 2011
January 26, 2011
January 25, 2011
January 24, 2011
January 21, 2011
January 20, 2011
January 19, 2011
February 16, 2011
January 18, 2011
January 13, 2011
January 13, 2011
January 15, 2011
January 12, 2011
January 11, 2011
January 10, 2011
January 07, 2011
January 06, 2011
January 05, 2011
January 04, 2011
January 03, 2011
December 30, 2011
December 29, 2011
December 28, 2011
December 24, 2011
December 23, 2011
December 22, 2011
December 21, 2011
December 20, 2011
December 17, 2011
December 16, 2011
December 15, 2011
Again, it appears to me that the posts are ordered by the number in the URL, which does not necessarily correlate to the date. If I had to take a guess, news items are not necessarily published immediately, but they do get assigned one of these numbers immediately, and as a result a lower number only means that the post started being written longer ago, but wasn’t necessarily published longer ago. I don’t know if that’s how your system works or not, but I’ve seen other systems that work similarly to this.
This bug makes finding certain news posts very difficult. Thankfully, there’s a search feature!
In general though, great work as always! Been watching your site like a hawk, I have to spend my free-day money soon (plus some from my bank account, my wish list has gotten lengthy). Not to be off-topic, but any chance you guys might carry solenoids soon? If so, I’ll almost definitely add them to my next order.
EDIT: Sorry about the off-topic part at the end there, I really wanted to put something more positive than just “you guys should fix this.”
At some point this did indeed get solved - looks like the javascript now changes the class of the prices from "price" to "price calculated", so that the script responsible for currency conversions doesn't do its magic on them more than once.Kamiquasi:
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at the check-out that when you click calculate shipping it , adds a seemingly random amount to the total. ( ranging from $3.67 AU to $7.61 AU)Plenty of ways to solve that one
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I know I’m the new guy but I can’t register for an account on Sparkfun.
Using Firefox I get a time out error after just two seconds.
Sorry it was a work filtering issue. I tried from home with no problems.
Same. Except I never got it working :SSadE:
I’m trying to place an order , but I cannot checkout my cart :When I choose an address , and press ‘calculate shipping’ , it loops for several minutes (with the two circle array on the web page moving).
After that the address is displayed in grey , but no shipping fees are displayed and If I pressed ‘check out’ , nothing happens.
I’m using Firefox 3.6 on win xp sp2.
Edit: after some several tries , I got a new page telling me that there’s something wrong with the sipping quotes. It advices me to check my postal address (that never changed
Edit 2 : it’s working now. Thnaks
Hypoon:
News items are being listed all out-of-order on http://www.sparkfun.com/news.What’s expected: News items to be listed chronologically, from most recent at the top to longest ago at the bottom.
What’s happening: News items are ordered by some other means, it seems to be the number in the URL, from largest number at the top to smallest number at the bottom.
Snip…
This bug makes finding certain news posts very difficult. Thankfully, there’s a search feature!
In general though, great work as always! Been watching your site like a hawk, I have to spend my free-day money soon (plus some from my bank account, my wish list has gotten lengthy). Not to be off-topic, but any chance you guys might carry solenoids soon? If so, I’ll almost definitely add them to my next order.
EDIT: Sorry about the off-topic part at the end there, I really wanted to put something more positive than just “you guys should fix this.”
This appears to be affecting me now too. Not sure if everyone is seeing it or just me?
Makes my daily ritual of checking for new products a bit difficult.