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  • Putting my business owner hat on ... (I'm CTO at NetBurner)
    The spark fun free day could be looked at two ways..... Was it an attempt to reward customers for a good year? That was the stated goal, if so I'd give it a D as its pissed off a bunch of good customers.
    (My self included)

    Was the goal to spend 50K (I know 100K, but assume margins 50% real cost 50K) to generate a bunch of buzz and free hype for publicity, ie was it really aimed at generating new customers that will come back after the deal is gone and continue to buy? Then I'd give it a B Only time will tell if that was the case.
  • Sort of like giving away free software & not providing support when users can't figure out how to get PPM to work.
  • I tried and didn't make it through, the site was obviously swamped. Either way I was going to make an order, I was just hoping to get an xbee in there with the free day and all. Oh well nothing lost. The IRC room was filled with complainers though. Some people acted like they had a hundred dollars stolen from their pocket.

    My only complaint is that with all the orders today mine wont be shipped until next week haha.
  • Can anyone order somethings?
    I was open the home page but login page wasnt response. And i cant order anything, then all site was worked like a magic but free day was finished!
  • Moderator
    Anyway, I'm going to quit worrying about Freeday and getoverit.

    Thx SparkFun... I guess it's the thought that counts!
  • Moderator
    Are you using the term heroine loosely?

    I guess I'm thinking of the super camps up here in northern Alberta (2500 workers to a bldg), but no-one would ever call the few women who work there, heroines. (or even ladies for that matter)
  • Sort of like romance in Silicon Valley. 5,000,000 men emailing 1 heroine. Eventually they all give up & pay full price.
  • Call it sour grapes whatever but I was on that page for 2 hours with 2 different internet connections(iPhone 3g and home network) and the site only loaded 2 times on both. I couldn't get past the checkout button. I also looked at the twitter and it didn't make sense. It took over an hour to give away 35k but it only took less than 40 min to give away 65k?! No way. I think the Sparkfun server crashed and burned so they decided to fake the rest of the giveaway from 35k. I'm just venting cause I killed 2 hours for nothing but either way I still love Sparkfun :)
  • Developer
    My Qwest "High Speed" is not so fast...
  • well its 75deg here in socal so I'm going flying
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