Black Library fiction The End and the Death - Volume III

[Doghouse]

They should just do made to order, it's obvious that this is a major issue now.

[Halandaar]

6 minutes ago, Scribe said:

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.

 

Respectfully, Nike haven't managed to stop people scalping limited release footwear, and Ticketmaster haven't managed to stop touts on Taylor Swift tickets, and both those companies have a significant amount more resources to spent on preventative measures than GW

[Carcosa]

Message last updated: 17:48

 

Thank you for your patience. Unfortunately The End of The Death: Volume III (Special Edition) has sold out.

 

[aa.logan]

[SpaceDwalin]

[OpossumStrong]

7 minutes ago, 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

Well their IT is "fixing" my problem with the website for over a month now , they all probably occupied by it.

[Scribe]

2 minutes ago, Halandaar said:

 

Respectfully, Nike haven't managed to stop people scalping limited release footwear, and Ticketmaster haven't managed to stop touts on Taylor Swift tickets, and both those companies have a significant amount more resources to spent on preventative measures than GW

 

And both would, I imagine, have a far bigger spotlight on them than some BL book.

lol sold out.

 

Absolute. ABSOLUTE, joke of a system.

[StraightSilver]

At least I can pee now...... Oh well, at least I know that's the last time I ever do this..... no more limited editions for me.......

[Typhonian]

"This queuing system ensures everyone has the opportunity to place their orders"

[crimsondave]

I mean, if they bypassed the que, the are you human test to join the que is kinda pointless isn’t it?

[Allart01]

This was even worse than the first time.

[Joe]

1 minute ago, StraightSilver said:

At least I can pee now...... Oh well, at least I know that's the last time I ever do this..... no more limited editions for me.......

 

What, you don't sit at your desk with a catheter and a bucket like the rest of us?

[Guest Triszin]

So scalpers got 95% the copies again.

 

Gw needs to require the queue id code on the back end when checking out, to verify you were in queue

[son of the forest]

Did anyone here manage to get a copy?

[aa.logan]

Well, at least I had some company in that fruitless queue. See you all again for the Horus Primarchs novel whenever that happens 

[Scribe]

1 minute ago, Triszin said:

Gw needs to require the queue id code on the back end when checking out, to verify you were in queue

 

I'm surprised that wouldnt be part of the process, but seeing as I didnt get through the queue to see this myself, I guess I shouldnt be surprised at all.

[Guest Triszin]

Nope, I'm aware of 15 people in my group that didn't get it either. Everyone was refreshing until the queue went live then it paused and sold out

[StraightSilver]

1 minute ago, Joe said:

 

What, you don't sit at your desk with a catheter and a bucket like the rest of us?

I'm working my way up to my own catheter (we usually have to share) but buckets are reserved only for the most senior staff......

[OpossumStrong]

2 minutes ago, Triszin said:

So scalpers got 95% the copies again.

 

Gw needs to require the queue id code on the back end when checking out, to verify you were in queue

This is actually a good suggestion, one of the best tbh, because all captchas etc not big of a problem today.

Edited January 24 by OpossumStrong

[307kg]

If the queue was paused, how could it sell out? 
 

this attempt was definitely worse than the first time it was put up on the webstore. I was at least able to enter the store… lol

Edited January 24 by 307kg

[Matcap86]

Yeah seems like scalpers are bypassing the queue and ddossing the site. My brother + store manager tried to order for an hour and a half from a store terminal and didn't manage it as the site kept crashing. Probably scalpers bypassing the queue system and then overloading the site. 

[crimsondave]

4 minutes ago, Triszin said:

So scalpers got 95% the copies again.

 

Gw needs to require the queue id code on the back end when checking out, to verify you were in queue

Seriously.  What an idiotic way to do it, especially when everyone knew they were skipping the Que.

[Felix Antipodes]

The interesting thing to me is that the queue is still paused.  I was on the site buying some HH stuff when the queue came online and  I already have stuff in my basket but now can’t access the site to complete the sale.  So I waited for almost two hours for the queue to come off for no reason.  Money lost GW.  I will be emptying my basket in the morning when I get up. 

[Doghouse]

8 minutes ago, crimsondave said:

Seriously.  What an idiotic way to do it, especially when everyone knew they were skipping the Que.

 

It's almost like GW were like ok so we got the scalper copies back lets try the exact same thing again next Wednesday and hope for a different result.

[01RTB01]

No one in our group managed to get a copy.