**I got a 360 from Amazon/I didn't, help me out** thread

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Feel free to post your glee or utter carnage of your monitor here for all to enjoy. If you didn't get one, plea to the lucky ones to show you mercy.

Personally, if I don't get one, my collection may be available to pick from to those that did.

Here's hoping CAG gets the lion's share.
 
Well, I've got my three notebooks set up in my feeble attempt to score one.

Still haven't decided whether I'm keeping it or giving it away, though.

How long left? 17 minutes or so?
 
Wel it hit 1:58 and suddenly nothing would refresh, so no luck for me. =( I really want one too, I already have a hard drive and games for one. Looks like i'm gunna have to pay full price.
 
[quote name='PhreQuencYViii']Wel it hit 1:58 and suddenly nothing would refresh, so no luck for me. =( I really want one too, I already have a hard drive and games for one. Looks like i'm gunna have to pay full price.[/QUOTE]
Same here. Once I hit reload, the browser kept trying but nothing would happen. At 2:15 the page finally loaded and the 360s were sold out. :(
 
lol amazon wouldn't even open for me. Oh well, easy come, easy go. Congratulations to everyone that got one.
 
F5 is the gayest of all keys

Truly

Seriously, what the hell just happened, once 1 PM rolled around, the page didn't even reload for me until about 1:07.
 
I was able to get to the page up to about 1:58...after that, I tried to refresh and it would not move at all. Not surprised, but a little annoying.
 
I got through and clicked the button for "Buy this deal" or whatever, but it took a LONG time to load. They had a security question (what's 13 plus 13?), and it took another few minutes to load for me, then they gave me the message that they were sold out. It was eight minutes in when I got the sold out message. I guess I was just a little bit too slow.
 
[quote name='the_gloaming']I got through and clicked the button for "Buy this deal" or whatever, but it took a LONG time to load. They had a security question (what's 13 plus 13?), and it took another few minutes to load for me, then they gave me the message that they were sold out. It was eight minutes in when I got the sold out message. I guess I was just a little bit too slow.[/QUOTE]

Yeah the same exact thing happened for me except my question was 18 + 7.
 
I refreshed amazon at 11 am and it finished loading at 11:07. It was already sold out by then.
 
I joined Slick Deals just to post this.

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Not a scam at all, and I'd hate if all the ones who didn't make it called in, complained, and got our orders cancelled..this wasn't a scam...this was a pretty well planned event that got plenty of fair warning...

Wrong link at first, here's mine

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/3739/wowvf9.jpg

It was a legitimate first come first serve affair, unlike the PS3 retail situation, where only people who have the time and "conviction" to line up for 2 days got in on one..here everyone had a shot if they were ready for it.

What did you need to get in on it?

First of all, everything preset, your shipping info and payment information [it helps if you've ordered an item before]

Second, a good connection, if you expected to get in on this by dial up or by a cell phone, you're wrong. And here is your proof finally, if you think DSL can even touch cable, even a limited budget cable connection can outperform a top tier DSL

Third, a clean system, that means no adware, no extra resources, and a bare bone graphic interface and a clean boot up. Internet explorer helps too..Firefox is all hype, and I bet you the ones who got in had spot free systems either running OSX/Safari or Windows XP/IE6

That, and just do the math, I'm pretty sure anyone who hit refresh at exactly 11 did not get in At 10:58 I timed a refresh at 29.375 seconds ,I opened up for five browser windows and pressed refresh within 1 second on all 5 windows at 10:59:30, I looked at the status bar and noticed one page was getting an https connection and the others were getting http, I closed the http ones and the https loaded up and after pressing "Get this deal" and answering the verification question, I got a claim code in my email in a second and was forwarded to this page

http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/2531/deal1jo4.jpg

So yeah, some of you need to shape up: I'm not bitter that I don't have one PS3, while some of you have more than FIVE, why in the world would you complain about not getting an Xbox 360 for $99? Aren't some of you guys the ones that were getting annoyed with some of us still looking for PS3's and not worrying about black friday?
 
[quote name='sarausagi']I joined Slick Deals just to post this.

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Not a scam at all, and I'd hate if all the ones who didn't make it called in, complained, and got our orders cancelled..this wasn't a scam...this was a pretty well planned event that got plenty of fair warning...

Wrong link at first, here's mine

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/3739/wowvf9.jpg

It was a legitimate first come first serve affair, unlike the PS3 retail situation, where only people who have the time and "conviction" to line up for 2 days got in on one..here everyone had a shot if they were ready for it.

What did you need to get in on it?

First of all, everything preset, your shipping info and payment information [it helps if you've ordered an item before]

Second, a good connection, if you expected to get in on this by dial up or by a cell phone, you're wrong. And here is your proof finally, if you think DSL can even touch cable, even a limited budget cable connection can outperform a top tier DSL

Third, a clean system, that means no adware, no extra resources, and a bare bone graphic interface and a clean boot up. Internet explorer helps too..Firefox is all hype, and I bet you the ones who got in had spot free systems either running OSX/Safari or Windows XP/IE6

That, and just do the math, I'm pretty sure anyone who hit refresh at exactly 11 did not get in At 10:58 I timed a refresh at 29.375 seconds ,I opened up for five browser windows and pressed refresh within 1 second on all 5 windows at 10:59:30, I looked at the status bar and noticed one page was getting an https connection and the others were getting http, I closed the http ones and the https loaded up and after pressing "Get this deal" and answering the verification question, I got a claim code in my email in a second and was forwarded to this page

http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/2531/deal1jo4.jpg

So yeah, some of you need to shape up: I'm not bitter that I don't have one PS3, while some of you have more than FIVE, why in the world would you complain about not getting an Xbox 360 for $99? Aren't some of you guys the ones that were getting annoyed with some of us still looking for PS3's and not worrying about black friday?[/QUOTE]


Not that I'm bitter or really worried about it, but really all those tips above do not ensure anything. I was there refreshing along with my mom and sister on two other comps also all refreshing like 10 minutes before hand.

Surprisingly enough, my computer (the fastest) never loaded until it said they were sold out. The slowest computer of all was the only one that even got to the question but it didn't work out.

So please, if you got one, congratulations and I hope you enjoy it, but please don't act like it was anything more than complete random luck. And if the https site really did help you, don't you think that is a little unfair to the other thousands of people trying?
 
I never experienced any of the loading problems that everyone else seemed to be experiencing. I refreshed right when the computer's clock hit 1:59, and followed the directions with virtually no lag. And to top it off, my parents' computer is usually wicked slow. So yeah, I got one!
 
[quote name='Nilbog']Not that I'm bitter or really worried about it, but really all those tips above do not ensure anything. I was there refreshing along with my mom and sister on two other comps also all refreshing like 10 minutes before hand.

Surprisingly enough, my computer (the fastest) never loaded until it said they were sold out. The slowest computer of all was the only one that even got to the question but it didn't work out.

So please, if you got one, congratulations and I hope you enjoy it, but please don't act like it was anything more than complete random luck. And if the https site really did help you, don't you think that is a little unfair to the other thousands of people trying?[/QUOTE]

Honestly, I think it was pure luck. I did not go through the https site and actually feel I was at a disadvantage with how slow my parents' computer usually is.
 
I heard of this httpS what is this thing exactly :whistle2:#. I read somewhere that the http server was hammered while the httpS server was running smoothly.
 
[quote name='Josef']Honestly, I think it was pure luck. I did not go through the https site and actually feel I was at a disadvantage with how slow my parents' computer usually is.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, thats awesome. Congratulations man.

I just get annoyed when people announce they have some brilliant scheme that no else thought of.
 
[quote name='assassinX']I heard of this httpS what is this thing exactly :whistle2:#. I read somewhere that the http server was hammered while the httpS server was running smoothly.[/QUOTE]

The best way for me to explain it is to tell you what Wikipedia says:
"Using an https: URL indicates that HTTP is to be used, but with a different default port (443) and an additional encryption/authentication layer between HTTP and TCP."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS

S for security
 
I think the deal might have been misguided. I wonder how many people tried to get in on it just to double their money on ebay. Honestly, that's what i was going to do with mine to help pay for a premium console. I think a price point around $200 would have still attracted a lot of people, but would have made it less attractive to people who simply wanted to turn around and resell the system for profit.
 
I got a 360 lightly used core system (includes outer box cables, controller and everything else that came with it), not from AMazon of course. If any body is interested in buying shoot me a PM. As I'm looking to avoid ebay for all the paypal+advertising charges...
 
By the time it refreshed, all 10 windows, the 360's were sold out.

But I did nab one of the Moongoose bikes for $60 shipped with Prime. Not a bad deal for a runner-up.
 
[quote name='CaoPi']I got a 360 lightly used core system (includes outer box cables, controller and everything else that came with it), not from AMazon of course. If any body is interested in buying shoot me a PM. As I'm looking to avoid ebay for all the paypal+advertising charges...[/QUOTE]

If you're looking to sell it at near Amazon price, then great. If not, then this isn't the thread for you.
 
I was on it from 1:30 ET on, and I refreshed at 1:58 and the deal vanished. I hit refresh again, and the buy it now was on there, then I answered the math question, only to quickly get the result that all the xboxes were sold out, and this was by 2:00.
 
I am very interested (still) if anyone is looking to make my Christmas. I can pay for the system itself, plus extra for your time, plus a game or two.
 
Seems like only 3 CAG'ers got one. Wow. I wonder how many the employees of Amazon got ;P.
 
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