> Guys,
>
> Sparkfun on sale this month. 7th Jan. Checkout http://www.sparkfun.com for more
> details. Please please give me a chance to make 1 order. :)
>
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
>
>
>

> Did anybody mabage to take advantage of this? I just keep getting a message
> that the website "has been temporarily closed while necessary upgrades are
> installed and configured". I am figuring it was just a hoax.
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:06 AM, John Chung <EraseMEkravnusspam_OUTTakeThisOuTyahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Guys,
> >
> > Sparkfun on sale this month. 7th Jan. Checkout http://www.sparkfun.com for more
> > details. Please please give me a chance to make 1 order. :)
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Grant Tudor <@spam@grant.tudorKILLspamgmail.com> wrote:
>> Did anybody mabage to take advantage of this? I just keep getting a message
>> that the website "has been temporarily closed while necessary upgrades are
>> installed and configured". I am figuring it was just a hoax.
>
> It was $100 of free stuff to the first 1000 comers.  I'm sure they
> passed that mark within an hour or two of midnight.
>
> I think the publicity from the stunt was more than their site could handle.
>
> No, I didn't get anything.  But I did order from sparkfun earlier this
> week, because I thought it likely that they would be out of stock of
> some items after today.
>
> Regards,
> Mark
> markrages@gmail
> --
> Mark Rages, Engineer
> Midwest Telecine LLC
> KILLspammarkragesKILLspammidwesttelecine.com

> They are buckling under the load.  You can refresh every so often and
> occasionally it'll come up.  It's only going to get worse, though.
>
> If you don't already have a shopping cart set up it's going to take so
> long to choose your items that you might miss it.
>
> Some people are having success filling their carts now, but many
> people filled their carts yesterday, and there are over 1500 people on
> the IRC channel, so the 1,000 free orders are doubtless going to be
> gone in minutes, if not seconds, once 11AM EST rolls around.
>
> -Adam
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Nathan House <spamBeGonenathanpiclistSTOPspamEraseMEgmail.com> wrote:
>  
>> Is the website down for you guys too? I tried pinging it through the windows
>> console and no packets got a reply, so it looks like it's completely down..

> On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 09:09 -0600, Mark Rages wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Grant Tudor <TakeThisOuTgrant.tudorspamgmail.com> wrote:
>> > Did anybody mabage to take advantage of this? I just keep getting a message
>> > that the website "has been temporarily closed while necessary upgrades are
>> > installed and configured". I am figuring it was just a hoax.
>>
>> It was $100 of free stuff to the first 1000 comers.  I'm sure they
>> passed that mark within an hour or two of midnight.
>>
>> I think the publicity from the stunt was more than their site could handle.
>>
>> No, I didn't get anything.  But I did order from sparkfun earlier this
>> week, because I thought it likely that they would be out of stock of
>> some items after today.
>
> All gone, 100k given away, what a waste of time...
>

> Andy
> Hi there.
> I am grateful to Sparkfun for reminding me of a valuable lesson I learned a
> long time ago. Nothing comes for free, you always get what you pay for. I
> have wasted far more time and nervous energy that the $100 dollar come-on
> from Sparkfun. I congratulate their clever marketing ploy. I suspect it will
> turn on them and bite eventually as people will be turned off and revert
> back to buying from their usual sources like NEWARK etc. Pay the going rate
> and get the stuff without the hassle!
> Congratulations those of you who beat the rush. I started shopping 8:10 pm
> 01/06/10 and just finished 1:25pm 01/07/10. Sorry, no discount.
> Cheers all.
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Neil Cherry <ncherryspamBeGonelinuxha.com> wrote:
>
>> Ah screw it, it's not worth the extra effort!
>>
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> I'm absolutely astounded by the amount of griping I see going on
> surrounding this.  Not just here, of course- blog comments,
> Twitter, everywhere.
>
> Amazing how fast someone turns on you when you don't give
> them free stuff.
>
> Observing this beforehand I'd have said no-brainer win for
> SparkFun.  Now I'm not so sure- I don't think they've turned
> off any (or many) existing customers, but I also don't think
> they've earned many new ones.
>
> Good luck to them, at any rate.  They sell some neat stuff
> that's hard to come by anywhere else.
>
> Mike H.
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:49 PM, PICdude <picdude3EraseME@spam@narwani.org> wrote:
>
> > I strongly think their advertising gain will be far greater than the
> > customers that are turned off, especially .  Can you imagine how many
> > links to their company name and website they have on the internet now?
> >  And google uses the number of links to a given website to determine
> > search rankings.
> >
> >

>
>
>
>
> Quoting graham foulkes <bespoken1spam_OUT@spam@gmail.com>:
>
>> Andy
>> Hi there.
>> I am grateful to Sparkfun for reminding me of a valuable lesson I learned a
>> long time ago. Nothing comes for free, you always get what you pay for. I
>> have wasted far more time and nervous energy that the $100 dollar come-on
>> from Sparkfun. I congratulate their clever marketing ploy. I suspect it will
>> turn on them and bite eventually as people will be turned off and revert
>> back to buying from their usual sources like NEWARK etc. Pay the going rate
>> and get the stuff without the hassle!
>> Congratulations those of you who beat the rush. I started shopping 8:10 pm
>> 01/06/10 and just finished 1:25pm 01/07/10. Sorry, no discount.
>> Cheers all.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Neil Cherry <spamBeGonencherry@spam@linuxha.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ah screw it, it's not worth the extra effort!
>>>
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> On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 15:31 -0600, Mike Hord wrote:
> > I'm absolutely astounded by the amount of griping I see going on
> > surrounding this.  Not just here, of course- blog comments,
> > Twitter, everywhere.
> >
> > Amazing how fast someone turns on you when you don't give
> > them free stuff.
>
> Sorry, no, I think you're missing something here.
>
> The issue is that this company knew what they were getting into, and yet
> didn't seem to prepare for it at all.
>
> Anybody in the industry knows that if you're going to do something like
> this you HAVE to beef up your site with more hardware/bandwidth, or at
> the very least to strip the site down to the bare essentials.
>
> It seems they did neither at the beginning, and only the latter after
> things were already bogged down.
>
> There have been a few companies who have made a similar error with
> promotions, I make sure not to frequent them as a result, and
> unfortunately for sparkfun they are now on that list as well. Too bad
> for them.
>
> TTYL
>
>

> On 01/08/2010 02:08 PM, Sean Breheny wrote:
>> OK, that makes sense. Actually, I'm so used to seeing wild turkeys
>> that I don't think I really know what a farm turkey looks like. I'll
>> have to look that up.
>
> Domesticated Turkeys are much bigger, more aggressive and only slightly
> resemble their wild cousins around the head. When I'm out riding my
> bike I notice them and have to be careful (of the wild ones).
>
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Kevin Jones <krjone01spamBeGone.....aye.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, wild turkeys can fly.
>>>
>>> The domestic ones where your typical Thanksgiving turkey comes from
>>> can not. It has been bread out in favor of other traits.
>
>
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