had an email from eBuyer, trumpeting their "£1 clearance sale" starting
at 11am today.

Website is borked.

Why set up and promote an event, when your website can't handle it ?
Especially when your ONLY business is - guess what - web based ?

Massive fail.

"Jethro" wrote in message
...
had an email from eBuyer, trumpeting their "£1 clearance sale" starting
at 11am today.

Website is borked.

Why set up and promote an event, when your website can't handle it ?
Especially when your ONLY business is - guess what - web based ?

Massive fail.


Will enjoy reading about it in the press tomorrow. Should be afew It people
out of a job by then...

On 28/11/2011 12:58, Jethro wrote:
had an email from eBuyer, trumpeting their "£1 clearance sale" starting
at 11am today.

Website is borked.

Why set up and promote an event, when your website can't handle it ?
Especially when your ONLY business is - guess what - web based ?

Massive fail.

You didn't miss much. When I finally did get onto the site there were
only 13 items in the £1 sale including such must have items as a
"Valuable NDSi EVA Bag" with 44p off.

On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:21:58 +0000, Tim.. wrote:

"Jethro" wrote in message
...
had an email from eBuyer, trumpeting their "£1 clearance sale" starting
at 11am today.

Website is borked.

Why set up and promote an event, when your website can't handle it ?
Especially when your ONLY business is - guess what - web based ?

Massive fail.


Will enjoy reading about it in the press tomorrow. Should be afew It
people out of a job by then...

I see El Reg have picked up on it ....

Finally got through, and am not impressed true, something reduced from
£1.54 to £1 is a "£1" deal, but not quite what I, or indeed the other
thousands of people were looking for.

Reminds me of a quip an old lecturer made about ordering a cigarette
lighter and a coat hook for a shilling, and getting a red-headed match
and bent nail in the post.

"Andrew May" wrote in message
...
On 28/11/2011 12:58, Jethro wrote:
had an email from eBuyer, trumpeting their "£1 clearance sale" starting
at 11am today.

Website is borked.

Why set up and promote an event, when your website can't handle it ?
Especially when your ONLY business is - guess what - web based ?

Massive fail.

You didn't miss much. When I finally did get onto the site there were only
13 items in the £1 sale including such must have items as a "Valuable NDSi
EVA Bag" with 44p off.

Knowing the furore it would cause when the site crashed under load I think
it may well have been deliberate.

'There is no such thing as bad publicity'.

How many people who have never heard of them will know the name tomorrow if
they can generate enough free column inches?

Jb

On Nov 28, 7:55*pm, "Jb" wrote:
"Andrew May" wrote in message

...

On 28/11/2011 12:58, Jethro wrote:
had an email from eBuyer, trumpeting their " 1 clearance sale" starting
at 11am today.

Website is borked.

Why set up and promote an event, when your website can't handle it ?
Especially when your ONLY business is - guess what - web based ?

Massive fail.

You didn't miss much. When I finally did get onto the site there were only
13 items in the 1 sale including such must have items as a "Valuable NDSi
EVA Bag" with 44p off.

Knowing the furore it would cause when the site crashed under load I think
it may well have been deliberate.

'There is no such thing as bad publicity'.

How many people who have never heard of them will know the name tomorrow if
they can generate enough free column inches?

Jb

Their promotion may be a joke, but while there I found 2 things I've
been after, and I bet that was the idea all along.


NT

Well if they won't spend the money they presumably wont get the capacity
either.
Brian

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"Tim.." wrote in message
...

"Jethro" wrote in message
...
had an email from eBuyer, trumpeting their "£1 clearance sale" starting
at 11am today.

Website is borked.

Why set up and promote an event, when your website can't handle it ?
Especially when your ONLY business is - guess what - web based ?

Massive fail.


Will enjoy reading about it in the press tomorrow. Should be afew It
people out of a job by then...

On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:30:09 GMT, Jethro
wrote:

Reminds me of a quip an old lecturer made about ordering a cigarette
lighter and a coat hook for a shilling, and getting a red-headed match
and bent nail in the post.

Or a precision portrait of the Queen - a stamp.