The internet has Lines..

[Donrad]

Just doing some boxing day shopping at the Best Buy website.
and as im checking out it tells me to wait 15-30 minutes in a line....
The screen looks like a loading screen and its just so annoying.
Please dont give me that "but sir, isnt this better then waiting 2 days for boxing day anyways?"
yes, it is.

I wanna know if you have ever waited in an online.. line?
im still waiting.. its been 20 ish minutes... almost done, its at 80%.

thank you and merry christmas.
cheers!

UPDATE: Ok so with the high traffic on the website the site keeps crashing, so this sends me to the "front of the line"
and everytime this happens it seems that when my cart updates something is sold out.
I have to exit and make the required changes (this doesnt change your spot in line though)
weeeelllll... untill the site crashes again.

I have given up and am going to wait out in the cold like a normal person on sunday morning,

 

[siffty]

yea at my m8s to help him get tickets for blizzcon

 

[Cherry Cola]

Great, now I'll be up all night trying to imagine a line of people with laptops. I never get to sleep thanks to these abstract thoughts brought on by threads!

 

[Loop Stricken]

I believe I have.

Can't for the life of me remember what for, mind you.

 

[dmase]

Most of the download waits i get are like a minute long and just uniform between download, free downloads on semi paysites.

 

[Donrad]

awh i wasnt waiting for a download
thats just what the screen looked like ( a bar which went from 0%*START* to 100% *END*)

but im trying my luck with the futureshop site now ^___^

UPDATE: Futurshop has a line as well.. looks like my large amount of 10-20$ bluerays might be in DANGER!

 

[USSR]

One website, I forgot which one, has non-members wait some time before the download started. I waited about 15 minutes once

Possibly rapidshare.

 

[shaboinkin]

what the eff is boxing day?

 

[cheese_wizington]

Best Buy just needs better servers then I guess....

 

[USSR]

One website, I forgot which one, has non-members wait some time before the download started. I waited about 15 minutes once

Possibly rapidshare.

No, i used it to download a mod for CSS.

....

It was FilePlanet.

Ah, I see.

..I can't even download from file planet <.<

 

[Donrad]

what the eff is boxing day?

exactly the same thing as Black Friday..
just a big time/day
of there year where there are super good deals on stuff..
im grabbing a bunch of semi new release Blurays for around 10 bucks.
and might get a dsi for 140 but i dont think so D: theres still christmas xD

 

[Nevyrmoore]

what the eff is boxing day?

exactly the same thing as Black Friday..
just a big time/day
of there year where there are super good deals on stuff..
im grabbing a bunch of semi new release Blurays for around 10 bucks.
and might get a dsi for 140 but i dont think so D: theres still christmas xD

WRONG SIR! WRONG!

Boxing Day is an official bank holiday in the UK. It's called that after the "tradition [of] giving seasonal gifts to less wealthy people and social inferiors. Until their distribution, these gifts were stored in a 'Christmas box,' which was opened on December 26, when the contents were distributed. In the United Kingdom, this was later extended to various workpeople such as labourers and servants."

THE MORE YOU KNOO~OOW!

 

[Donrad]

what the eff is boxing day?

exactly the same thing as Black Friday..
just a big time/day
of there year where there are super good deals on stuff..
im grabbing a bunch of semi new release Blurays for around 10 bucks.
and might get a dsi for 140 but i dont think so D: theres still christmas xD

WRONG SIR! WRONG!

Boxing Day is an official bank holiday in the UK. It's called that after the "tradition [of] giving seasonal gifts to less wealthy people and social inferiors. Until their distribution, these gifts were stored in a 'Christmas box,' which was opened on December 26, when the contents were distributed. In the United Kingdom, this was later extended to various workpeople such as labourers and servants."

THE MORE YOU KNOO~OOW!

technically im not wrong, you just went to the core definition of boxing day xD
but thats its always nice to know how something originated

 

[Ghonzor]

One website, I forgot which one, has non-members wait some time before the download started. I waited about 15 minutes once

Possibly rapidshare.

I would like it to be known that I hate website like those...

 

[vxicepickxv]

It's called a queue, and they existed in WoW for a while now.

 

[Nevyrmoore]

what the eff is boxing day?

exactly the same thing as Black Friday..
just a big time/day
of there year where there are super good deals on stuff..
im grabbing a bunch of semi new release Blurays for around 10 bucks.
and might get a dsi for 140 but i dont think so D: theres still christmas xD

WRONG SIR! WRONG!

Boxing Day is an official bank holiday in the UK. It's called that after the "tradition [of] giving seasonal gifts to less wealthy people and social inferiors. Until their distribution, these gifts were stored in a 'Christmas box,' which was opened on December 26, when the contents were distributed. In the United Kingdom, this was later extended to various workpeople such as labourers and servants."

THE MORE YOU KNOO~OOW!

technically im not wrong, you just went to the core definition of boxing day xD
but thats its always nice to know how something originated

Ah, but to my knowledge, Black Friday has no history other than that of "Huge savings! People act like headless chickens!"

..."Also, some people die!"