Black Library fiction The End and the Death - Volume III

[Balthamal]

So the bots still got in 

And paused again...

 

[StraightSilver]

One good thing is I have learnt what all the B&C react options mean.......  

[Matcap86]

 

3 minutes ago, Mechanicus Tech-Support said:

Scalper chat room essentially

 

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But... those orders shouldn't be too hard to cancel again right? So are we getting another batch online in like a week time again?

[Son of Rawl]

2 minutes ago, aa.logan said:

THE QUEUE IS PAUSED

 

I’m just here for morbid curiosity now.

At this point. Same lol

[StraightSilver]

Just now, Matcap86 said:

 

 

But... those orders shouldn't be too hard to cancel again right? So are we getting another batch online in like a week time again?

I don't think they would do another attempt after this one. I'm hoping GW are sat there tracking sales, cancelling suspicious orders and reallocating them to the webstore in that region..... In my dreams.... but you can hope.....

[Mechanicus Tech-Support]

Looking pretty grim frater
 

Spoiler

 

[StraightSilver]

Yeah, I just checked UK ebay and there are 3 listings with 18 copies between them (roughly 5 per person) that all went up today between 4.15-4.30pm and they are £350 each. So, I guess GW didn't manage to stop them.....

[Scribe]

GW are clowns. 

[Matcap86]

They really shouldn't have announced the availability and just cancelled the orders and notified people via email. The announcement immediately got picked up by all the content creators blasting it far and wide. 

Edited January 24 by Matcap86

[Etruscan]

What I don’t understand is do these scalpers have dozens of different addresses for their multiple orders?

[skylerboodie]

1 minute ago, Matcap86 said:

They really shouldn't have announced the availability and just cancelled the orders and notified people via email. The announcement immediately got picked up by all the content creators blasting it far and wide. 

Shoulda slipped them back on the website, and only sent scalpers notifications of their cancelled orders after they'd already been resold.

[Matcap86]

My brother isn't even coming through the site as it keeps crashing in store. So I don't know :cuss: is going on with their systems. 

[StraightSilver]

Can the first person to get in, only to find out it's already sold out, ,screenshot it and let us know, just so I can have a wee....... 

[Scribe]

Just now, Matcap86 said:

My brother isn't even coming through the site as it keeps crashing in store. So I don't know is going on with their systems. 

 

I have to wonder if the bots are not essentially pulling a DDOS on the site. A queue, would imply that you get your key, and you wait in the queue.

 

Considering they cannot even manage that, their system must be crashing from the bots that are getting through their queue system.

 

GW is inept. Simple as that.

[Son of Rawl]

Just now, StraightSilver said:

Can the first person to get in, only to find out it's already sold out, ,screenshot it and let us know, just so I can have a wee....... 

You need to get a :cuss: bucket lol

[phandaal]

12 minutes ago, Mechanicus Tech-Support said:

Looking pretty grim frater
 

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GW had to know people would attempt to do this. I wonder if the queue pausing is so they can release the books back to the store once they clear out the scalpers. Going to be a fun day for their web team!

[StraightSilver]

Just now, Son of Rawl said:

You need to get a bucket lol

If I was at home that's exactly what I'd do. Currently sat in an office with colleagues all surprised at my sudden eagerness to put in unpaid overtime at work....... Don't wanna ruin the impression..... 

[Guest Triszin]

Sigh, I'm like 90% the same bots skipped the queue again

[Halandaar]

6 minutes ago, Scribe said:

 

I have to wonder if the bots are not essentially pulling a DDOS on the site. A queue, would imply that you get your key, and you wait in the queue.

 

Considering they cannot even manage that, their system must be crashing from the bots that are getting through their queue system.

 

GW is inept. Simple as that.

 

Is it ineptitude? I mean I don't think GW has ever covered itself in glory when it comes to selling out of in demand product but this feels different to their usual FOMO-overpromise-underproduce tactic, this is a targeted attack by "professional" opportunists for whom GW is just one of many targets they are able to successfully undermine.

[skylerboodie]

Gotta go out to the shops, my family keep bugging me this evening, saying they want "food". Please save my place in the queue, ta x

[Matcap86]

Just now, skylerboodie said:

Gotta go out to the shops, my family keep bugging me this evening, saying they want "food". Please save my place in the queue, ta x

 

probably still paused when you get back mate.

[Scribe]

Just now, Halandaar said:

 

Is it ineptitude? I mean I don't think GW has ever covered itself in glory when it comes to selling out of in demand product but this feels different to their usual FOMO-overpromise-underproduce tactic, this is a targeted attack by "professional" opportunists for whom GW is just one of many targets they are able to successfully undermine.

 

Yeah, I think it is.

 

GW profits are pretty high. If the IT profession cannot manage handling some scalpers out for some books, its pretty dark days.

[Doghouse]

So scalpers are still getting them?

 

I forgot about the book and went on for other stuff and all I get is:

 

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What a clown show. 

 

[Mechanicus Tech-Support]

I mean a good and well staffed IT department or 3rd party company CAN deal with the bots and scalpers but that would require... having a good and well staffed IT department which with GW I sincerely doubt they have

[Scribe]

Just now, Mechanicus Tech-Support said:

I mean a good and well staffed IT department or 3rd party company CAN deal with the bots and scalpers but that would require... having a good and well staffed IT department which with GW I sincerely doubt they have

 

Indeed. So ineptitude.

 

Whats GW profits again? High.