[Cialug] Sparkfun Free Day?

[jrnosee at gmail.com]

Well...they weren't getting anything from me either way.  I just wanted
about $65-75 worth of stuff.  Some iPod and HTC cable bits to adapt my new
phone to ipod dock stuff.  Maybe a bluetooth->RS232/TTL module.  I'd love to
get into Adruino, but don't have the time.  I still haven't found time to
set up rsync/backups at home.


On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:49 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Nathan C. Smith <
> nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> >> > I caught a glimpse of the page a bit ago and only a little over $700
> had
> >> > been given away.
> >>
> >> I'd bet that most people can't get in to complete the checkout
> >> process.  I can't even get to the first step of the checkout.  If I
> >> ever do some sort of e-commerce system I'm going to use Google,
> >> Amazon, or a similar system so that I can deal with loads like this.
> >>
> > Why? If user's can't checkout, .. they don't have to give the money away!
>
> Bad PR...  If you don't want to give the money away, don't make the
> offer...  Plus, I bet that a lot of people would have ordered more
> than $100 worth of merchandise.  I was going to order approximately
> $140 worth.
>
> > Had no luck even getting to the main page from here - constant timeouts.
>
> Neither did I... Now I likely won't be ordering anything...
>
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> Jeff Ollie
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