Daily specials to beat the sales peaks!

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When has their site ever been fast & functional?
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Orange ones up there now, no chrono's though, got ever so excited for a moment
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Trying to get the orange C60 300 but just getting an error.
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Did you manage to get it? Wearing mine right now, did contemplate getting the braclet one just for the bracelet but felt a bit wrong doing that.
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scrw wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2020 6:17 pm Did you manage to get it? Wearing mine right now, did contemplate getting the braclet one just for the bracelet but felt a bit wrong doing that.
Unfortunately not. Just kept taking me to the error page when I clicked on it. It’s was the bracelet version.
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jtc wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2020 5:53 pm It's like the web content is wanting to social distance itself :lol:
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scrw wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2020 6:03 pm When has their site ever been fast & functional?
Yet another year that the same comments about the website speed are being posted. I dread to imagine what it'll be like when/if they do the July Sale :shock: :thumbdown: :silent:
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Well they are not hosted by a small service provider, so one assumes either under spec'd, not setup to flex, or crappy web code/config
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In his reply to my complaint, which allowed me to purchase the watch I had been after despite missing out on the daily circus:
Mike France wrote:The demand has been quite remarkable and you’re quite correct, our site has struggled to cope at times despite us increasing the server load capacity to hitherto unknown levels.
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Single server? Probably on a shared host? There's the problem. It's their primary retail platform, hopefully some of that investment money gets spent on dedicated cloud compute soon - teenagers are doing a better job writing high demand mobile apps and web servers in AWS!
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They must have overslept this morning......
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scrw wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 8:12 am They must have overslept this morning......
The site is running really well this morning, refreshes almost immediately for me.

So I thought I had missed it, sounds like I didn’t miss it though...

Wonder how/why it’s running so well then?
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Site much more responsive as well. I suspect because it is the middle of the night in the US and Canada, so a noticeable drop off in traffic.
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But still no offers. Nothing on the last Friday?
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Ant wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 8:19 am Site much more responsive as well. I suspect because it is the middle of the night in the US and Canada, so a noticeable drop off in traffic.
Site being responsive is an entirely new phenomenon at sale or event time that is. 😎
Which is why I thought I had missed today’s release of nearly new, I was a bit late checking and it’s running so well, every day at nearly new release times (all different), it’s been constantly falling over and very slow ....
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