SparkFun Free Day

[rsisk]

So, what do you guys think. Was this a net plus or minus for Sparkfun? They became a trending topic on Twitter, lots of publicity, lots of frustration.

I think it was a net plus because of the publicity. I figure I spent a couple of hours trying to get some free stuff and it didn't work out. No worse for the experience.

Saw some comments on Twitter about never coming back to Sparkfun because of the experience, but I bet they would never have gone there anyway and were only around for the free stuff.

[Tristan Lall]

I was considering trying it when I heard about it in December...until I saw how much publicity it was getting, and the fact that it was limited to $100 000.

The fact that the site was down this morning was further confirmation that this wasn't going to end well for me. If they weren't equipped to handle the volume prior to the actual event, it was hard to imagine them pulling it off smoothly during the promotion itself (despite their mention of a new, more robust web host).

So I went to the dentist instead—that was a more productive use of $100 or so.

[Akash Rastogi]

I had my cart ready to go for the past two days with the forms filled out and still nothing. Their servers got wrecked haha.

[chris31]

I had my cart ready and tried for awhile but had no luck. Bummer. It was good publicity for them and please alot of customers who got free stuff.