<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>actually, they just installed new servers a couple of weeks ago, and figured this was a fun way of stress testing them :-)<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>They were modifying code an hour before as well and took the site down for a bit in preparation... Not the best QA I've ever seen :( </div><div><br></div><div>And, I wouldn't have minded if all sales were completed within a few minutes and I missed out. I'd known it was truly first-come-first-served. But, instead, it was whoever was lucky enough to get through... and, inefficient on all fronts (ours and theirs)..</div><div><br></div><div>To be fair, though, I don't think they thought this would be as popular as it was. It hit slashdot around an hour before and was also on the #1 Google trend. </div><div><br></div><div>With that said, however, it still worked out. They have a lot of advertising/traffic coming in (even now) from the promotion.. So, quite a few people were disappointed, but I bet they still made a lot of new people happy. Who knows, maybe they'll make so much money that they'll go back, look at people who couldn't get through (i.e., still have things in their baskets but were trying to check out), and give us a discount or another promotion..</div><div><br></div><div>Glen</div></body></html>