Sparkfun is getting beaten to a bloody pulp....

[Oneslowz28]

Its the $100,000 free day... Their server went down the first time at 1 hour until it began, has went into maintenance mode 3 more times as of this posting. They just tweeted that they can not keep it up very long with out crashing...

[Oneslowz28]

Down again....

Latest tweet

RT: @sparkfun: The site is going in and out of consciousness. Stay with us folks... Free Day is definitely NOT cancelled

[OvRiDe]

This should be interesting!

[Airbozo]

What is sparkfun?

[Collinstheclown]

GASP! It's an electronics part store.

Last time I was able to get to the payment method page it said so far $707.29 was given out. This is so rediculous! haha




-CollinstheClown

[OvRiDe]

Can't get past the shipping page. Sigh

[Collinstheclown]

$12,871.08 Given away so far.




-CollinstheClown

[OvRiDe]

Well I made it through the paypal stuff.

[x88x]

Crap! I forgot that was today! ...looks at tab trying to load..hmm, yeah, well, we'll see how that goes...

[Oneslowz28]

Must have been 100,000 tweets in the last hour @sparkfun.

THey are at 35k given away sofar

[Collinstheclown]

50K now...

Not looking good... :(




-CollinstheCllown

[Oneslowz28]

And I really wanted an arduino, blinkm and blinkm maxm and the cool brass soldering iron cleaning thing

[Collinstheclown]

I was getting $150ish worth of stuff. Arduino, ethernet shield, some tools, breadboards, and an arduino book.

HackaDay is going nuts too haha.




-CollinstheClown

[OvRiDe]

WOOT!! I finally made it through!

Order confirmed!

they were at $64,732.80 when my order confirmed.

[Oneslowz28]

RT @tbcsdotcom Breaking news http://TheBestCaseScenario.com is having a #freeday on all new memberships. Today only!!!

[OvRiDe]

SparkFun Free DayHas concluded!$100,000.00 was given away in:1h : 44m : 50s

:(

[Collinstheclown]

FML.... I really really really wanted that stuff. I blame hackers for this move.

1h 44m 50s wasted... Now I know how sperm feel.




-CollinstheClown

[Oneslowz28]

RT: @sparkfun: Free Day is officially over folks. At 10:44:47, we reached $100,587.80 (6 people hit the checkout button at the same time to end the day)

[x88x]

Grrr! Stupid meeting, making me miss the end :( (Ok, maybe not the only reason...)

[crenn]

I was on the last page when it rolled over, I'm disappointed I didn't get through, but man, it was a crazy night.