First Choice 2013

[Trying to Help]

Originally Posted by WarehouseCrew

For example, it you want a high demand item (eg. cRio, Talon, etc.) would it make sense to pick a few items and check out (eg. before using all your credits) to insure that you get the items before they are out of stock?

That is exactly what we did. We're one of those teams that struggled this fall with funding and we had specifically picked high value to us but lightweight parts for our initial order.

And I agree with everyone, there's got to be a better way of organizing this. At least rent some Rackspace or Amazon cloud time on both the usfirst.org and andymark.com sites for a couple hours! And surely there's some FIRST mentor somewhere that would be able to give some database design help.

[agartner01]

Originally Posted by Trying to Help

And I agree with everyone, there's got to be a better way of organizing this. At least rent some Rackspace or Amazon cloud time on both the usfirst.org and andymark.com sites for a couple hours! And surely there's some FIRST mentor somewhere that would be able to give some database design help.

Also, add a link to andymark from inside TIMES that automatically logs you in so we don't have to worry about the password, which I had to try several times until it would work.

[Steve Ketron]

Is the site still down. I see the team number/login but I am only able to select teams 4998 and 4999. I just wanted to know if this is an issue for me or are others seeing the same thing? time right now is Tuesday 7:41 am EST

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by Steve Ketron

Is the site still down. I see the team number/login but I am only able to select teams 4998 and 4999. I just wanted to know if this is an issue for me or are others seeing the same thing? time right now is Tuesday 7:41 am EST

From the FRC Blog:

FIRST Choice will reopen at Noon EST, Tuesday, 12/11.

Wetzel

[Mark McLeod]

Done (the second time).

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Done (the second time).

Me too!

[Kevin Sevcik]

Ditto ditto. Reserving some points for the post kickoff rush, and maybe to sneak in one or two of those Igus turntable bearings when they come in stock on the 17th. On the off chance they'll be useful in the future.

[Siri]

Do we know what the post-kickoff FIRST Choice will look like? We're currently sitting with a bunch of our refunded credits, staring at a list of things we really don't need (in fact, need even less than most of the original KoP stuff...) Will the post-kickoff offerings be solely game-related, or might there be more electronics, etc?

On the bright side, at least log in worked this time and we didn't get repeatedly kicked off the system.

[Jon Stratis]

Done here as well. I didn't see any issues this time around.

[Trying to Help]

Kudos to the folks at AndyMark!

Our points for out-of-stock items are refunded, one of our orders has shipped and the remaining parts are listed as processing. I received an explanation email from Andy Baker at 11 o'clock last night. Even though things did go sideways yesterday, I have a feeling that they put in a tremendous amount of time and effort over the past 24 hours to make things better and start getting parts out to teams.

[Jared Russell]

Is there any possibility at all that the FIRST Choice inventory gets replenished? Thinking at this point we'll just save our credits and hope something valuable is available later.

[Wendy Holladay]

Originally Posted by Jared341

Is there any possibility at all that the FIRST Choice inventory gets replenished? Thinking at this point we'll just save our credits and hope something valuable is available later.

i agree, this hasn't been a very positive experience. i can understand running our of talons, i just bought them, but battery chargers? if items go this quickly, there should be some mechanism for restock.

[JB987]

Round 2...checkout messed up during shipping calculation as recalculating shipping clock got stuck and I had to call AndyMark. Hopefully we get the camera that was part of our re-order today after losing 2 Talons yesterday to glitch. FIRST Choice shows points deducted for camera but it isn't in invoice, it shows out of stock now too. Hoping Jerry grabbed one as he said he would do (when there were still over 50 as we talked) and added it to our shipment. It would sure make for a nice Christmas!

Edit: Just received confirmation email from Jerry that he was able to help with camera. Now if they can just make sure we don't get charged shipping for re-orders given that yesterday's order got shipped already...

[Gary Dillard]

Originally Posted by Jared341

Thinking at this point we'll just save our credits and hope something valuable is available later.

Originally Posted by Siri

We're currently sitting with a bunch of our refunded credits, staring at a list of things we really don't need (in fact, need even less than most of the original KoP stuff...)

Yeah, you can only get $1000 worth of AndyMark gearmotors for free with 96 credits at this point. That's a real shame.

[robodude03]

Originally Posted by Jared341

Is there any possibility at all that the FIRST Choice inventory gets replenished? Thinking at this point we'll just save our credits and hope something valuable is available later.

This is the approach we are taking now. We are hoping that inventory will get replenished at this point and hope that measures will be taken to account for the teams that were effected by the login bug.