When will these companies learn?

[ivol07]

First Amazon and now Overstock. Overstock.com had a sale this morning for the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie for $9.99 + $1.40 shipping. I wonder how much it's going to end up costing them since the entire site has been down now for almost 2 hours. And I doubt anyone was even able to get the DVD. And the funny thing is that this was supposed to be the first of 12 great sales on Overstock. I'm thinking they'll probably drop the promotion all together.

*Edit*
Great, as soon as I post this it seems the site is back up. But trust me, the site was down....

 

[Queasy]

I thought it was funny that so many people ran to Overstock.com and crashed it for the same movie that is $10.89 at DeepDiscountDVD.com with Free Shipping.

 

[Imdmn04]

When will people learn?

Companies are not gonna buy 20 new servers for a one day sale, they could care less if you can get one or not, its there to generate interest.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Imdmn04
When will people learn?

Companies are not gonna buy 20 new servers for a one day sale, they could care less if you can get one or not, its there to generate interest.

but if they crash the server, nothign else gets sold so they are losing money.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Queasy
I thought it was funny that so many people ran to Overstock.com and crashed it for the same movie that is $10.89 at DeepDiscountDVD.com with Free Shipping.

I still don't see it at $10.89
Do you have to be logged in to see that price or something?

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: Queasy
I thought it was funny that so many people ran to Overstock.com and crashed it for the same movie that is $10.89 at DeepDiscountDVD.com with Free Shipping.

Overstock.com is a site that caters to internet noobs & they tend to succomb to the false sense of urgency created by "specials" like this one.