fisher price 0673 motor AM update

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

And were out of stock 6 minutes after they went on sale. So they were already gone by the time you posted.

E-commerce must work at a faster pace than my fingers type.

[fox46]

If they handled this shortage like their others, it is likely that teams placed orders with AM before hand so when the stock came in it was possible that 200 were already claimed leaving only a few still available. At that, it wouldn't be unrealistic for teams to order 10 at a time.

If I see someone posting on Chief Delphi or ebay offering 0673 motors for sale at a markup, I'm getting my hammer and comming to find you...

[Aren_Hill]

They did not allow preorders

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by fox46

If they handled this shortage like their others, it is likely that teams placed orders with AM before hand so when the stock came in it was possible that 200 were already claimed leaving only a few still available. At that, it wouldn't be unrealistic for teams to order 10 at a time.

If I see someone posting on Chief Delphi or ebay offering 0673 motors for sale at a markup, I'm getting my hammer and comming to find you...

From what I have seen from their POS (point of sale not the POS) you can't buy more items than they have is stock. Getting it into your cart is not the same as buying them. Not sure if they had 200 already claimed if that were the case. I have a feeling that there were several folks who bought several at a time.

[Bruceb]

The site would not allow you to pre-order out of stock items. I was refreshing the screen at 11 am central(an e-mail went out saying they would be available at 12 am eastern) and as soon as I saw them be in stock(like 11:00:03) I put 4 in my cart. I went to my cart and confirmed I had them then started check out. About half way through check out I got the message that they were out of stock so AM allowed someone with a faster computer or link to steal them out of my cart. I don't get how any retailer could see that as a good business practice. Never been disappointed with AM before. Hope they correct this in the future.
Bruce

[pribusin]

I was able to get some by being logged in and ready to go right at 12:00 EST. I signed up with AM's e-mail notification a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday I got the email alert that they would go on sale at noon today. Those alerts really do work.

There must have been tons of people on their site at that time because it slowed to a crawl.

@Bruceb, the items are not actuall take out of the datadase inventory until the sale is completed. Someone else must have completed the sale just prior to you which meant that they were no longer available to you.

[Bob Steele]

I was on the site at 9:00 AM PST and could not get a refresh until 9:08 and didn't get any motors.

No pre-orders were accepted by AM so they all went this morning.

I do think that if teams ordered 10+ of them they were only thinking of themselves and not being gracious considering that many teams will not get them. AM asked teams to only order what they really needed.

You can only use 2 on your robot. so 2 and 2 for the practice robot/spares

Many teams got none...

[Hadi379]

Originally Posted by pribusin

I was able to get some by being logged in and ready to go right at 12:00 EST. I signed up with AM's e-mail notification a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday I got the email alert that they would go on sale at noon today. Those alerts really do work.

There must have been tons of people on their site at that time because it slowed to a crawl.

I did the same thing, logged on at 11:50am and kept refreshing the page until it said "Available". I also noticed how slow the site was as well when trying to place my order.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

E-commerce must work at a faster pace than my fingers type.

Truer words were never spoken. There were probably a fair number of people thinking that exact thing at 12:07.

As for how we knew they were on sale, AM sent out emails updating people on the incoming stock and when they'd go on sale, etc. Provided you signed up to be emailed when the item came back in stock. AM is using the heck out of that feature to keep people updated on the stock status of items. I think I got 4 emails updating me on the changing status of the 0673's.

[wilsonmw04]

Is there another source for these?