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Runs bots to buy hardware, brags about his boyfriends earnings and whinges when the shop is down. Yea no, no sympathy from many sadly
What are you looking to even buy? Not a single retailer has stock if you're looking for the 6800/XT AIB models. Not one.
AMD have re-defined paper launch (none at all!) - Nvidia gave them a huge wide open shot and they have failed to show Nvidia up on stock.
Same goes for the AMD Zen 3 CPUs and Nvidia 3080s etc... so get off your high horse. They won't miss your few hundred quid from £50m now will they?
Ahhh @jcharnley1984, so you are 1 of the bots that keeps performing stock checks on the site adding on to the thousands of other bots doing the same thing, and then wondering why sites don't perform as well as they used to. Let me just explain something simple, we have cloud flare that filters out most bots when we do product launches, guess how much traffic was legitimate traffic for this launch according to cloud flare?
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yes it was 3%
Whats funny it bot scalping does not really work on our site we have like 3 levels of protection against it, but we still get pinged constantly by people that have bots running to check for incoming stock so they can get on as fast as possible.
I put forward a suggestion that for next launch we wont sell the product itself but will raffle off (for free pre user) tickets within 24 hours of launch, then we pick out of a hat basically who gets the items, so that there is no reason for everyone to spam refresh on a product launch as it wont make a difference, it will mean that everyone gets a fair chance and being unable to order at that time because you were in work or otherwise unable to wont be a problem too. What do you guys think of this suggestion?
Ahhh @jcharnley1984, so you are 1 of the bots that keeps performing stock checks on the site adding on to the thousands of other bots doing the same thing, and then wondering why sites don't perform as well as they used to. Let me just explain something simple, we have cloud flare that filters out most bots when we do product launches, guess how much traffic was legitimate traffic for this launch according to cloud flare?
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yes it was 3%
Whats funny it bot scalping does not really work on our site we have like 3 levels of protection against it, but we still get pinged constantly by people that have bots running to check for incoming stock so they can get on as fast as possible.
I put forward a suggestion that for next launch we wont sell the product itself but will raffle off (for free pre user) tickets within 24 hours of launch, then we pick out of a hat basically who gets the items, so that there is no reason for everyone to spam refresh on a product launch as it wont make a difference, it will mean that everyone gets a fair chance and being unable to order at that time because you were in work or otherwise unable to wont be a problem too. What do you guys think of this suggestion?
Only a suggestion at the moment but the idea was liked, as for avoiding throw away users it might be harder, though 1 shipping address per user would likely deal with the problem if you have siblings you wanted to buy for then unlucky.honestly if it's low stock / high demand then a raffle is 100% fair.
Once entry per account and find some way to stop people making throwaway accounts for it? If you want to reward customer loyalty then to verify the entry legitimate purchases need to have been made and delivered?
Not the only thing stopping the bots, googles captcha also prevents purchases during launches. If someone has found a way around googles captcha well then we have other issues to worry about too I guess.The cloudflare bot protection isnt up to scratch in my opinion and is inconsistance even for general user that isnt running a bot. Plus I havnt pinged your site ever, others yes. If you expose your API that would be helpful hehe jokes
Not the only thing stopping the bots, googles captcha also prevents purchases during launches. If someone has found a way around googles captcha well then we have other issues to worry about too I guess.
I put forward a suggestion that for next launch we wont sell the product itself but will raffle off (for free pre user) tickets within 24 hours of launch, then we pick out of a hat basically who gets the items, so that there is no reason for everyone to spam refresh on a product launch as it wont make a difference, it will mean that everyone gets a fair chance and being unable to order at that time because you were in work or otherwise unable to wont be a problem too. What do you guys think of this suggestion?
I put forward a suggestion that for next launch we wont sell the product itself but will raffle off (for free pre user) tickets within 24 hours of launch, then we pick out of a hat basically who gets the items, so that there is no reason for everyone to spam refresh on a product launch as it wont make a difference, it will mean that everyone gets a fair chance and being unable to order at that time because you were in work or otherwise unable to wont be a problem too. What do you guys think of this suggestion?
Ahhh @jcharnley1984, so you are 1 of the bots that keeps performing stock checks on the site adding on to the thousands of other bots doing the same thing, and then wondering why sites don't perform as well as they used to. Let me just explain something simple, we have cloud flare that filters out most bots when we do product launches, guess how much traffic was legitimate traffic for this launch according to cloud flare?
yes it was 3
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