Paranoia
After reading numerous rants regarding infamous Amazon's $100 Xbox 360 sale, I have only one thing to say: Suck it up people, it's not like you were going to be lucky enough to get one of the 1000 available out what? a million other people?!
Seriously it's like at Walmart, if they just opened their doors at 5 AM for Black Friday with no barricades, no queues, just straight up opened the damned things to the public, what do you think will happen? They'll clog up and the lucky few who rushed in at the head of the pack, blessed by the grace of God, would snag the deals. That is pretty much what happened to Amazon. All of you all, started hitting refresh at the same time a bout 300 times in the 10 minutes before the sale, and what happens? The servers clog. So lets go back to that Walmart analogy, Bob is over in San Francisco, while you're over in Cleveland. Both of you hit refresh at the same time. Now since Bob is theoretically closer to Amazon's servers his request gets there first, but his request still gets queued behind everyone that hit refresh before the sale. So he's stuck in line. You on the other hand get there slightly later, but alas you too are stonewalled behind the hordes of other treasure seekers. Your Internet speed is practically a non-issue. The servers, simply, were full. The lines were too long. So stop bitching about it. You should have realized your chances were slim to none anyways. I mean seriously did you think you could beat hundreds of thousands of people, if not a million to get one of the one thousand. I understand how all of you like to bitch about how your mocha-latte non-fat vanilla creme expresso things are too sweet or too cold, but seriously, no one is out to get you. Get over it. There are better supposed injustices to bicker about than equality in getting a $100 game console. Calm yourselves down, rip down those anti-Amazon banners on your blog, and find yourself a political issue.
|