SAC Ski day is tomorrow, not today

[Wunderkind]

Sorry dudes... I got my wires crossed. Tomorrow! Same wicked deals.

[stevesmith7]

I was wondering why all I'd seen so far was $40 tee shirts and $85 sunglasses.

[Wunderkind]

Ha - yeah but Steven, contrary to popular opinion I make more money on sunglasses than pretty much anything else. Despite all the complaining, SAC customers love to buy Sunglasses, otherwise you wouldn't see them so often.

[spotted dogs]

I was wondering how the womens capris fit into the ski thing... apres maybe?

[pyromaniacman129]

i need those zealots! i hope im online when they go up. any hints as to around what time?

[gpcharles]

man it is IMPOSSIBLE to get those deals.

i was refreshing, and the moment it came up, I clicked and it was gone...

sick deal though on the zealots. anything else?

can you give any advice on how best to nag these wonder kid?

if you happen to have them in your cart do you get any sort of moment in which to buy them?

or do you need to be skilled in the entire checkout procedure?

[pyromaniacman129]

alright, im a little pissed. this whole "bot" thing.
i literally refreshed the page as the climbing shoes hit 0 seconds, added the zealots to my cart and hit check out within 2 second and they were gone.

but wunderkind, thanks for throwing up sick deals all day today, cant wait to see what else pops up.

[denhamcla]

haha, yeah 1 unit... that's not going to work. Thanks for the heads up though.

[Spandy24]

well that sucked. 2 seconds of zealot madness all for one pair

[gpcharles]

didn't even have time for the SAC RSS to pickup on it

http://rss.steepandcheap.com/docs/steepcheap/rss.xml

[pfj]

i was close to getting those zealots but no ship to canada

[mwthomsen]

Zealots for $49 is a good start. Wunderkind never promised huge quantities in the best deals.

[weasel1]

Wow...just, wow. Must hire programmer to build me a bot.

[gpcharles]

Wow...just, wow. Must hire programmer to build me a bot.

to be honest i'm not sure a bot would even do it...

i write a lot of php bots to do various tasks, but you can't really run a cron job more than every minute without running into connectivity issues. you just can't ping SAC that fast. at some point it comes down to luck of the draw.

that said if you want to hire me to try I'll gladly take your money :P

i really think for stuff like this, it comes down to the fact that there were >10K folks on the site all thinking the same thing, and whoever has the best connection to the SAC server/was luckiest/had magic fingers got the skis.

edit: you're in middlebury? in school?

[Crinkle]

you can't really complain, it was like lottery win for those zealots to whomever the lucky dog is that got them. If you look there were 10,000 people on the page at that time when that deal went live. I was so freaked out by the low prcie that my jaw litterally dropped and the time it took me to say "whoa", was probably the time it took some lucky guy to click them into his basket. Needless, I'll be glued to my screen every 20 minutes or so.

[weasel1]

^^^ Yes.... the joke was that it would cost me more to, well, never mind...it wasn't funny.

[gpcharles]

ahhhhhhh.... the long lost sarcasm font was being used.

on the internet we all exhibit signs of autism (and I mean that in the most PC way).

seriously though... you're in midd?

[weasel1]

Yup... Middland, where everybody 10 years younger than me has a car that costs 3x my annual income.

[weasel1]

Gack....make that 15 years younger. Shit.

[gpcharles]

ha... i didn't when i passed through there. That said, they're not all bad up on the hill. i know what you mean though about "Middlebury, CT"

[gunit130]

wunderkind, i see you stole my idea!

remember i mentioned you should have live comments on SAC? I said you should mimic justin.tv

well, cool. i'll tell my friends you got the idea from me. can you send me some free shit?

[Wunderkind]

Gunit, live comments are dead - they had been on SAC about 8 months ago and then came back for a few days. It was the worst idea this company has ever had, sorry to say.

All others, the Zealots will probably be back throughout the day.

[gpcharles]

ha awesome... also gunit is PWND. lol

nice deal on the phantoms!

[McScrundle]

Gunit, live comments are dead - they had been on SAC about 8 months ago and then came back for a few days. It was the worst idea this company has ever had, sorry to say.

All others, the Zealots will probably be back throughout the day.

I didn't mind the live comments, they kept me on the site longer reading them and some where helpful.

[weasel1]

ha... i didn't when i passed through there. That said, they're not all bad up on the hill. i know what you mean though about "Middlebury, CT"

That wasn't to begrudge any first-year Midd kid their Porsche Cayenne S...I say hell yeah! And, gotta dig the vibe on the hill at the snow bowl, even if tree skiing is barely tolerated (they gotta catch me first....260lbs of pure momentum, baby!).