FRC Blogged-FIRST Chocie-Liquidation

[nicholsjj]

Originally Posted by IndySam

I feel like Charlie Brown on Halloween.

Did you get a special AM rock?

[ehochstein]

Originally Posted by rsisk

I was able to get most of the stuff in my cart. Had a hard time remembering my password, and by the time I did, the photo sensors were gone.

Other than that, have the form queued up and ready to go, starting at exactly 9am seemed to work.

Did the same thing here, except I logged into my account as well to make sure my billing information was correct.

[magnets]

Originally Posted by nicholsjj

Did you get a special AM rock?

Nope, not even a rock.

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by nicholsjj

Did you get a special AM rock?

Nope, I didn't want to pay shipping costs.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by nicholsjj

Did you get a special AM rock?

You mean the 2014 FRC game piece? I got 3.

[sanddrag]

Is it wrong of me to say that I'm glad to hear even the most competitive of you had trouble getting the goods? I totally missed the opening time. Some of us have actual jobs during the day that we can't get away from...

Anyhow, I seem to have ordered 4 of the 3-outlet power cords. We'll see if it goes through.

[Boe]

We managed to get quite a bit, they cut down on some of the quantities though. We also didnt manage to get any photoswitches.

[waialua359]

I missed out.
Wrote it in my calendar.

Too bad I checked my calendar when I went into work, 2 hours after the start time.
For what was available, we might as well buy it ourselves since shipping came out to $200+ as our quote.

[Nemo]

Whoops - I forgot to log in. The Gates belts kit was the thing that interested me the most. But it's cool. I'm glad that teams wanted all of this stuff. I hope everything goes so FIRST can tell all the donors that teams snapped up everything that was made available.

I'm guessing that FIRST Choice 2014 will feature some reasonably sensible point values and limits on the hot items.

[dcarr]

I didn't personally do it, but we had good luck with this. Didn't get exactly what we planned but got a good number of items we'll certainly use.

Time to plan a new CAD PC build to put the graphics card to work. Did the same after the free GTX 480 handout from NVIDIA a couple years back.

[Karthik]

I'd be curious on exactly how much stuff teams got, especially the ones who are posting saying they're happy with their haul. We logged in about 25 minutes late (I totally forgot that it opened today), but were still able to get 3 Fisher Price gearboxes. Not bad considering how hard those gearboxes can be to come by.

[AllenGregoryIV]

What we got, final order about 11:20am Central Time

Item	                                      Qty	
Direct mount terminal strip (fc13-008)         1
lazy susan, 12" (fc13-064)                     1
3-Port Extension Cables (fc13-201)             1
DB37 Cable (fc13-096)                          1

Shipping was $8.77

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by Karthik

We logged in about 25 minutes late (I totally forgot that it opened today), but were still able to get 3 Fisher Price gearboxes. Not bad considering how hard those gearboxes can be to come by.

Hah, I figured you guys would try to get some of those.

[ehochstein]

Order Placed: 08/19/2013 at 12:02PM EST

Item	                                     	
Cable/Wire Stripper (fc13-115)
Haydon Kirk Lead Screw (fc13-208)
3-Port Extension Cables (fc13-201)
Left and Right Pair of Window Motors w/ window lift assembly set (fc13-136)
Photoswitch (fc13-057)
Ring terminal box of 100 (fc13-048)
Video card, GeForce GTX 550 (fc13-133)

We only ordered one of each item. Shipping was $27.29

[HumblePie]

I also got caught in the dreaded loop of things disappearing from the cart. I did order a few regular items which may have slowed things down. Would've liked a matching set of concentric/eccentric rollers, but the concentrics sold out. Placed the following order at 12:07 EDT:

fc13-003 Targus USB Hub (fc13-003) 1
fc13-008 Direct mount terminal strip (fc13-008) 2
fc13-058 Adjustable Wrench Set (fc13-058) 1
fc13-064 lazy susan, 12" (fc13-064) 2
fc13-052 iglide Sliding Slewing Ring Bearing (fc13-052) 2
fc13-011 Integral Bushing Dualvee Eccentric Wheel (fc13-011) 2
fc13-115 Cable/Wire Stripper (fc13-115) 1
fc13-201 3-Port Extension Cables (fc13-201) 1
fc13-207 Pink 6ft. Crossover Cables (fc13-207) 1
fc13-208 Haydon Kirk Lead Screw (fc13-208) 2

Shipping was just under $18.