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    Razer Cyber Monday Mayhem Random Loot!! $1.00 US & Canada! Ordering Starts at 11/30 @ 12:01AM ET

    Discussion in 'Notebook and Tech Bargains' started by Cin', Nov 29, 2009.

  1. Cin'

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    Same message...but I like their encouragement to return shortly! ;) :p


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    Cin', Nov 30, 2009
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  2. hustheman

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    ugh i hate how every 10th refresh it takes a long time and i think its going to load.....but it doesnt......
     
    hustheman, Nov 30, 2009
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    Oh I fogot its on Eastern time, so the website was down because too many ppl trying to get on it all at once?
     
    Lyanowu, Nov 30, 2009
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  4. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    Fingers crossed :D
    I'm not sure how you come to that logic. I'm 20 years old, and I don't see how it's supposed to appeal to people 5 years younger than me. Hell, 5 years ago I probably didn't even know what half of the names were.
     
    Mastershroom, Nov 30, 2009
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  5. ViciousXUSMC

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    ha with this load and probably thousands of people refreshing every 10-30 seconds its going to take forever to get up.

    They should have anticipated this to happen and tried to prevent it better.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 30, 2009
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  6. hustheman

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    nahhhhhh i think they decided to delete some random codee just before
    =P
     
    hustheman, Nov 30, 2009
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  7. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    I imagine that's easier said than done. Websites will invariably get overloaded, much like a denial of service attack, when major releases or events happen. Just a few weeks ago when Left 4 Dead 2 launched, the Steam forums couldn't be accessed for the better part of an hour.
     
    Mastershroom, Nov 30, 2009
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  8. hustheman

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    i was looking at all the websites it trys to connect to, why does it need to connect to nytimes.com

    edit: no connection screen now...=(
     
    hustheman, Nov 30, 2009
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  9. Cin'

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    Yeah, very "poor and good planning"....They should have known this was going to happen. Yet, on a Marketing standpoint...look at all the peep's that signed up on their site, they took in! Fail on Razers end.

    Monday Mayhem....to the extreme.


    Cin...
     
    Cin', Nov 30, 2009
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    hmmm now its back to the loading now, no maintenance thing anymore
     
    wontons, Nov 30, 2009
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  11. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    Yep and dont forget about the other 1000's of people talking about how the site is down now lol. More free advertisement, then after the fact the 300 people that get something will talk about it while the rest of us will say how it sucked.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 30, 2009
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    damnit....i managed to get the page loaded
    I click on Add to Cart and now its back to loading :(
     
    wontons, Nov 30, 2009
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  13. hustheman

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    i think its up but everyones fighting for a connection
     
    hustheman, Nov 30, 2009
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  14. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    Same here, and now it's timing out again. :mad:
     
    Mastershroom, Nov 30, 2009
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    refresh, refresh, refresh... refresh lol, and oh more refresh.

    everybody do the refresh dance

    watch like 2000 orders get in since it happens so fast and 99% of us that get one get an emial saying sorry there was a system error that you did not win the contest and you were refunded, then we will never know if it was a scam or not.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 30, 2009
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  16. stupidcha

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    I bet you Razer did this for fun...

    Razer you are evil...
     
    stupidcha, Nov 30, 2009
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  17. Cin'

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    Exactly. Free, advertisement. And, it will all balance out in the end.....For them. The power of the internetz..lulz.

    On to the next best deal I say! :)


    Cin...
     
    Cin', Nov 30, 2009
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  18. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    NOOOO!

    I got the page to load, successfully added the item to my cart, but then I hit the Checkout button and it timed out :(
     
    Mastershroom, Nov 30, 2009
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  19. ViciousXUSMC

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    oh the memories, i have my add to cart link that I am refreshing it has a product 299 at the end of it, maybe that means I got #299 out of 300 so I am affraid to load the main page again and will use the add to cart url i have.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 30, 2009
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  20. hustheman

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    gah same issue!
    loaded page, time out on add to cart
     
    hustheman, Nov 30, 2009
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  21. Simon

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    Nah, I got #299 also. o-o Probably means how much is left.
     
    Simon, Nov 30, 2009
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  22. Mastershroom

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    Mine ended in 299 as well.
     
    Mastershroom, Nov 30, 2009
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  23. Cin'

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    For heck...I tried it one last time...Won't even load...so Meh. on that. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:


    Cin...
     
    Cin', Nov 30, 2009
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  24. hustheman

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    same, prob item code or something like that
     
    hustheman, Nov 30, 2009
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  25. ViciousXUSMC

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    Boss: Why diddnt you get any work done last night...? It was not even busy!

    Me: I was busy refreshing this page like a million times trying to get some phat lewt!
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 30, 2009
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  26. ViciousXUSMC

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    Aww got to my cart as I was redirected and it says its empty :'(
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 30, 2009
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  27. Cin'

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    All for One Dallah!!!! Wuz worth it. Really. :p


    Cin...
     
    Cin', Nov 30, 2009
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  28. stupidcha

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    Wow if 299 means 299 left I'm wondering who got the first one?

    LMAO!!
     
    stupidcha, Nov 30, 2009
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  29. ViciousXUSMC

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    "What Happen?"
    "Someone set up us the contest"
    "We get no signal"
    "Main screen turn on"
    "All your bandwidth are belong to us!"
    "What you say?"
    "You have no chance to survive make your time"

    "For great justice refresh every zig"

    width='425' height="344">


    <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qItugh-fFgg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width='425' height="344">
     
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  30. hustheman

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    prob someone who works for razer lmao
     
    hustheman, Nov 30, 2009
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    I bet you!!!
     
    stupidcha, Nov 30, 2009
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  32. ViciousXUSMC

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    lol @ direct access to the server

    let me just ftp my order information in there... and walla!
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 30, 2009
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  33. Mastershroom

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    Awesome; just got this after the "check out" button failed a zillion times:

    [​IMG]
     
    Mastershroom, Nov 30, 2009
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  34. ViciousXUSMC

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    Your doing better than me, I cant even get it into my cart, and worse yet I am not signed in on my account so at some point they will make me sign in probably and thats going to be another page or two to load.

    Im going to have to give up soon.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 30, 2009
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  35. hustheman

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    alright i give up
     
    hustheman, Nov 30, 2009
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    alright screw this crap i give up
     
    wontons, Nov 30, 2009
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  37. ViciousXUSMC

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    Add to cart button is just taking me back to the purchase page again so I bet it maybe already over.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 30, 2009
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  38. dtwn

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    Is it terrible of me to find your all efforts incredibly entertaining? Now I know how B.O.C watchers on Woot feel.
     
    dtwn, Nov 30, 2009
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  39. Analys1s

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    We'll see who has the last laugh when we all get awesome items for $1. MUWHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA...


    ...but I have a feeling that you'll have the last laugh, dtwn. :p
     
    Analys1s, Nov 30, 2009
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  40. ViciousXUSMC

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    Atleast I am at work on my downtime so I am getting paid, its not like I stayed up at home but yeah this could be entertaining :D

    Even if one of us got so lucky as to get one of the 300, chances are they only have one maybe two of the good items and the rest is the cheapo filler stuff.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 30, 2009
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    lmao this is worthless
    no one except the ONE got the deal
     
    stupidcha, Nov 30, 2009
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  42. dtwn

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    Well, I'll toss in a prize just to stir the pot. Up to three members on NBR who gets in on the deal gets a free copy of Osmos on Steam. All you need to do, is prove that you actually got the item. :D

    Dance, my puppets, dance!
     
    dtwn, Nov 30, 2009
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  43. ViciousXUSMC

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    Can that proof be photoshoped? :D
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 30, 2009
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  44. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    What are you talking about?
     
    Mastershroom, Nov 30, 2009
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    Loot's All Gone!

    Congrats to the 300 lucky customers who managed to get an EPIC loot on their way out. For the rest of you guys, come back tomorrow and make any purchase, we'll slip in a nice early Christmas gift in your order when we ship it out.

    Game On!
    Tom S
    The Razer Store Team
     
    RazerStore, Nov 30, 2009
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  46. Mastershroom

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    Well, that was a good use of the last two and a half hours of my life...couldn't load the god damn Checkout button after getting the thing into my cart over an hour ago.
     
    Mastershroom, Nov 30, 2009
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  47. dtwn

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    Can you even get a picture of a receipt or invoice? :p
     
    dtwn, Nov 30, 2009
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  48. Lyanowu

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    LAWL
    I find this very entertaining :p
     
    Lyanowu, Nov 30, 2009
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  49. Dragoonx

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    Is that real or fake?
     
    Dragoonx, Nov 30, 2009
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  50. Lyanowu

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    Pretty sure it is frake, just one of us tried to make fun of this lol.
     
    Lyanowu, Nov 30, 2009
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