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Originally Posted by dcarr
While staying on top of the barrage of emails can be a challenge, the Main Contact should have received many pieces of communication detailing the process for FIRST Choice over the past several months. That's kind of like saying "it's not fair that there are so many rules for the teams who don't bother to read the manual."
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If I remember correctly, FIRST Choice opened at noon ET on a school day. Because of how my team is run, with the student officers choosing what we spend our credits on, we were not able to assemble an order by that afternoon, by which time many of the hot-ticket items (cRio, Classmate, camera, Talons) had sold out at prices that seemed ridiculous (less than a roll of pneumatic tubing).
For the second round of FIRST Choice, (for which I saw nothing indicating more of those sold-out items were added to the pool), my team has traditionally not met on weekends. By the time we were able to access FIRST Choice, we felt the parts we selected were almost not worth the shipping we ended up paying for them.
It's certainly understandable for a rookie team to have missed the "This item will only be distributed through FIRST Choice" or have caught that but missed the "Quantity: 10" or whatever on the FIRST Choice site, or to simply have not been able to use their credits in time to get those desired parts.