The deal was oversubscribed, thousands of people were trying to checkout on the same item and the website crashed, happened to other retailers, not much you can do.Game posted online yesterday that later that day on their social channels they will post a code that will discount a PS5 to R6499, so if you are fast enough and that if you purchase a new PS5 online at 12:00 on Friday 24 November only 10 people will get a special discount price.
An so later that day a post was seen on facebook with the special code to be used at 12:00 on 24 November 2023. If you tried to use the code before, the site would reply invalid coupon.
So promptly at 12:00 on November 23 12:00, I entered the code and it worked, not giving me the PS5 for R6499 but providing me with another R6499 discount on the already discounted price R1900. Which made the PS5 R5300 which was absolutely incredible.
I immediately clicked on checkout, at this stage this is where the trouble started.
The site kept on saying "Something went wrong please try again".
After 4 min I was able to confirm my delivery adress, and clicked "View Summary" to proceed to the payment, where the site again displayed "Something went wrong please try again".
This persisted for about half an hour, at every 8 or 9th clicked of "Try Again" I was presented with a page to confirm my delivery information.
If I processed to click "View Summry" to process to the payment page the site displayed "Something went wrong, try again".
At about 12:30 my cart was cleared automatically and displayed that there was a shortage of stock, and right after that the site crashed, or if as they displayed in "Maintenance Mode".
After about 10 min the site returned but now the PS5 that was on special was Out of Stock.
I was never given the opportunity to complete my purchase. This is false advertising, I believe from facebook posts nobody could copleted their purchase, is game going to make good on the special discount that I fairly won at 24 November 2023 at exactly 12:00
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MyBB has moved on from just being tech related a long time ago.![]()
Can someone from Broad Media officially comment on the legitimacy of Pineapple Insurance's claim (pun intended)?
It strikes me as an odd claim to make, considering that MyBroadband is primarily concerned with assessing the services of companies that operate in the broadband realm (as opposed to car insurance).
Had issues as well with some chargers on TaL.So, Takealot are having a lot of trouble with fake goods. They rejected my review of this product:
This is not a 120W Charger. I put it on a USB tester. It can do QC3.0 up to 12V, but is limited to 22W max (dips to 11V at 2A).
I still have it along with all the tools to demonstrate it is fake.
Yeah, I have a 65W Mcdodo that tests just fine.Had issues as well with some chargers on TaL.
Purchased this on BF for R650 the 120w version. Fantastic charger.
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People in Zimbabwe are re-configuring star-links into solar panels and street lights to evade detection by the government since they are banned. I'm surprised they are working but some ingenuity there. The revamped starlink will also use a normal router.
Such a pleasure to read an article that features correct grammar, spelling, punctuation and simply makes sense. But I digress.![]()
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How many people actually still install apps like this from Play Store?![]()
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