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Re: FRC Blog - FIRST Choice: Take Three!

all pneumatic parts for 558, thanks AndyMark for the hard work!
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Re: FRC Blog - FIRST Choice: Take Three!

20 minutes and got all we were looking for! Just a tad bit slow, but works.
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Re: FRC Blog - FIRST Choice: Take Three!

Finished. Shipping came to $24.95 for basic ground.

As a new coach, I have to say that I'd prefer the old way of everyone getting the same kit. I had to rely on students from alst year (their rookie year) for what to order and who knows if it will be useful this year. I am anxious that we will end up without what we need. We are cannibalizing last years robot for electronics and anything else we can use. It wasn't worth saving to show off.
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Re: FRC Blog - FIRST Choice: Take Three!

The site does not like Explorer 8. Had to relogin with Firefox.
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Re: FRC Blog - FIRST Choice: Take Three!

everything seemed to work well.
we got the items we were hoping for.
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Re: FRC Blog - FIRST Choice: Take Three!

It worked really well for us the second time (I kicked the power button on my computer the first time)

Nice job Andymark!

A few observations--

The first time through, there were 205 talons available and 683 cameras available. The second time through there were 219 talons and 696 cameras. Some people missed the checkout timer

The site was slow, but not that slow (less than 10 sec per page), so I don't think that teams missed the checkout timer because the site was too slow. Instead, I'll bet they missed it because they didn't have something (like a credit card) ready to fill out the shipping information.

Overall- much better than last year, and the site worked fine for us!
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Re: FRC Blog - FIRST Choice: Take Three!

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I hope everything worked for us, didn't get an order confirmation. It just hung up on the submit order page, but when I clicked submit it told me my cart was empty. Our credits went away, so I hope it worked!
Same experience here. Really hope our order went through... Other than this it has been a much smoother experience!
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Re: FRC Blog - FIRST Choice: Take Three!

Thank you Andy and company!
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Re: FRC Blog - FIRST Choice: Take Three!

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As a new coach, I have to say that I'd prefer the old way of everyone getting the same kit.
Many of these items were never part of the kit, or not part of the kit for anyone except rookies. Since many are donated, there are often not enough for everyone to get them in a kit, so FIRST cannot use them.

We try to go for the basics that we know we will use - a new classmate, pneumatic components, etc.
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Re: FRC Blog - FIRST Choice: Take Three!

It took me 13 minutes to order and at the end can't order because of a payment error. I won't tell you what I feel with that first choice stuff..!"$?%&*)(
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Re: FRC Blog - FIRST Choice: Take Three!

Was able to order what we needed, but $50 for shipping a laptop? Guess I'm spoiled by Prime.

Excellent job on resolving the site issues guys.
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Re: FRC Blog - FIRST Choice: Take Three!

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As a new coach, I have to say that I'd prefer the old way of everyone getting the same kit.
Yes, but virtually every item in FIRST Choice is not available in the quantities needed to supply one to each team. That means you would get none of it.

Now which would you prefer?
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Re: FRC Blog - FIRST Choice: Take Three!

Well worth the wait! Thanks for taking the time to get it right for all of us!
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Re: FRC Blog - FIRST Choice: Take Three!

Got our items pretty smoothly. Nicely done Andy Mark!
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Re: FRC Blog - FIRST Choice: Take Three!

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Yes, but virtually every item in FIRST Choice is not available in the quantities needed to supply one to each team. That means you would get none of it.

Now which would you prefer?
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