2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-II HARD DRIVE - JUST £79 inc VAT

matt100 said:
I guess my frustration is I spend a lot of my time figuring out whether something is a good idea ie will I have enough stock for it (I deal with a big mobile phone company about a mile from your h/o) etc and I would have seen this a mile away... pre registering for a lottery or whatever would have been a better and calmer way to harvest customer data than having your site fall over and then have customers getting mixed results/stuck in checkout etc etc..

Just my 2p, no axe to grind tbh.
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I see your point, but the picture is much bigger than that.
 
would have liked one too but like many others managed to get one in basket go through checkout then got to the securecode page and it hung......... oh well, then refreshed to be told I could only order one..... :( maybe by the time i fill the 1.5 I have in my synology 2's will be cheap as chips anyway :D
 
Amazed at all the people moaning! How can you possibly get stressed or disappointed, have you seen how many forum members are online at any one time? At best you had a 10% chance of getting a drive!

Even Amazon have suffered meltdown when running well-publicised offers for example.

People amaze me :)

Anyway I've got a Daily Mail to read and the BBC's HYS to vent on, then some Youtube videos to abuse so catch you later ;)
 
Orange Peel said:
Have you actually read what people are complaining about or are you being stupid on purpose?
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I fully understand what the whiners were referring to but an important part of the lottery nature of this deal was whether OcUK’s servers could cope with the load. They were hardly going to upgrade their servers just for this deal! They may have had the bandwidth but the servers couldn’t cope.

This offer was posted at HotUKDeals 6 days ago where it had nearly 7,000 views on a forum that has over 200,000 members which definitely upped the ante.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/578124/2tb-seagate-barracuda-lp-sata-ii-ha
 
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Anyway stop moaning every you big bunch of girls! They were doing something nice by reducing it! How can you possible complain!?
 
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wannabedamned said:
have you ever tried to order popular concert tickets when they go on sale?

It's exactly the same experience. Maybe you weren’t interested in a hard drive, but you will find if you go on a concert site and try and order Donny Osmond tickets during the hour period where Muse have just started selling tickets, you've not got a snowballs chance in hell.
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It's not the same though. Ticketmaster's website can cope - you get put in a queue and get told now long your request will take. Then if there are tickets left they're yours and you pay. What happened here is that many people got told they had a drive (it's in your basket) but the checkout system couldn't cope. By the time came when it could handle your purchase you were basically told it had gone to someone else.

I was in this situation (I actually saw the full 50 in stock when I clicked buy). Despite this I'm not that bothered though. I've saved £87 on something I didn't really need and they'll no doubt be down in price again very soon.

It's a shame it made it onto HDUK really. That's what probably sent the visitor numbers through the roof. Quite how you create publicity (which is what these sort of deals are about) but stop them getting onto such sites are two conflicting problems.

At the end of the day, if I want something and OCUK are competitive then it's not going to stop me buying from them. I think when everyone's calmed down most people will also be of the same opinion.
 
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