Re: First Choice 2013
 

Well, 3476 was able to get on at 12:02 after I realized that you have to manually type in the password. We scored: 1 cRIO, 2 GTX 560s, 2 Classmates (to drive robots at our demos), 2 Axis Cameras, 2 Talons, multimeter, 2 solenoid valves, and a broken ribbon cable. A pretty good haul! Worth about $1,750, and we used up all of our credits. I kinda wish I got the angle drill though.

I think it's great that AndyMark does this year after year! Thank you! :D

Sorry to all the teams that couldn't get in. :(

Re: First Choice 2013
 

My credits aren't adding up right.
Anyone else notice a discrepancy?

We show more credits than we're entitled to.
It seems to be due to the two orders I placed. The second order isn't being debited from the credits used, while the third order is credited properly.

Be careful with your subsequent orders, the credits may be invalid.

Re: First Choice 2013
 

AndyMark was very helpful and everything is fine now.

On the other note, if this city gets anything less than 20 inches of snow in a day we still have school... ;) We got 8 inches yesterday, my street is not plowed, and the kids (and myself) are in school. <sarcasm> In Cali, however, I have heard if the sky even drops a trace of snow the world stops... ;) </sarcasm>

Re: First Choice 2013
 

We might be having a similar issue. But in our case it looks like credits were charged but items (Talons) were not successfully ordered.

I'm sure the folks at AndyMark will get it straightened out, and hopefully we will be able to get the items we would like.

Re: First Choice 2013
 

Are we locked out right now? The page says they are having problems and there's no box for the password.

Re: First Choice 2013
 

I see the same thing. I'm guessing it has something to do with the restocking since they explicitly said before that items wouldn't reappear once they were out of stock.

Re: First Choice 2013
 

First bullet on login page: http://www.andymark.com/FIRST-Choice-s/273.htm

"We are currently having issues, please email firstchoice@andymark.com, all orders are suspended for the time being."

Re: First Choice 2013
 

We were one of the 3-digit teams that couldn't login right away. I finally got in about 12:10, and placed two orders. The changing stock numbers prevented me from getting Talons (they appeared to be back in stock after my orders were done).

I'm also having an issue with credit counting. I ordered 84 credits worth, and the system shows I have 2 credits left. I sent an email, and Jerry Budd is already looking into it. They must be crazy busy, so I'm grateful for any attention we get.

Re: First Choice 2013
 

I have a bad feeling about this. It took what seemed like forever to get the password to work. Then I filled up my cart, got most of what I wanted, when to checkout and it booted me out. Restart chrome, bring up last session, 3 min's later, nothing. Start again, get the stuff I want (mostly) go to cart and now everything is doubled. Fix it, and the batteries disappear, out of stock, but the Talons showed back up? Took what I could get and didn't use all my credits. Figure a few extra for after kickoff couldn't hurt. I feel like we may be doing this all over again in a week.

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We've been told that all of the items that appeared to be re-stocked weren't actually re-stocked. It seems their system began doing things that were not intended. If you placed an order for these 're-stocked' items, I would expect it to be null.

-Parker

Re: First Choice 2013
 

Were they having a leading zero issue? Only 3 digit teams affected?

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Are we to assume that orders placed before the "re-stocks" started to happen are going to be okay? I guess we'll find out soon enough.

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Regarding the shipping costs unable to calculate:

I called AndyMark, and was told that the "Window motor lift assembly set" was set as 999 lbs in their database. As a result, shipping costs couldn't be calculated (since my order was >1000 lbs).

After speaking to their friendly shipping department, my order was fixed with correct shipping costs (came out to ~$65 with the 2 batteries I ordered, and all the other things).

Re: First Choice 2013
 

Maybe they come still attached to the car

Re: First Choice 2013
 

Interesting, something was making my CHROME browser crash this morning as well.