JudyJFLA

I didn't win the lottery this week, along with millions of others here in Florida. Oh boy, I think we should all sue to!!!

Just my sarcastic observation!!

JudyJFLA

itsme

Well, shame on you for not winning. Eight years ago, my brother-in-law won it, threw everything else over, and has been devoting himself to surfing since then. If you weren't smart enough to pick the right numbers, like my b-i-l did, then that's your problem. (I confess that I am chagrined because I have never won the lottery, but then I never buy tickets because I am too much a prisoner of logic and probability theory.)

pinniped

While I doubt a class action suit would be worth anyone's while, there are laws that govern how sweepstakes must be conducted. I have no idea whether an infrastructure problem at the time a contest is supposed to happen would violate them, but I do think that people who offer online contests should be required to mix in a little load testing. I mean geez, I doubt there are MILLIONS of us with new Juniper US Airways cards.

And in general, I think the whole "click here at exactly X time" is a dumb contest to begin with. Especially this one - where apparently there's some validation with a database server that I'm even eligible to win. Seems like a performance nightmare from the start.

itsme

What distinguishes this "contest" from those that are or were so common on the radio which require that you be the xth caller to ring the station, except that this "50 cent ticket" contest is being conducted by high(er) tech means than those familiar radio ones? Not likely that they won't give away the tickets or that it is somehow rigged so as to favor/disfavor anybody in particular, and thus unlikely that there would be any consequences other than people annoyed with screw up. (The joke, of course, is that one could end up "losing" by "winning," depending on taxes, cost to hie onself to the departure city, ground costs, etc. But then I stand ready here with my $1 offer to spare those who might get such a ticket the burdens thereof.)

EugeneV

I waited until the countdown showed 00:00:00:00

I see:

"It's not over yet! We are currently verifying requests. Please keep clicking the 'Get Tickets' button as tickets may be re-released."

It is 4:05 now and this debilitating thing is making me feel pretty stupid.

rgm18

they must be out of tix...

studfromhawaii

Are you serious? I tried for the Florida ticket again today and even though I didn't get any errors, I didn't win. I thought this was a first come first serve sort of a thing. I don't know why when I click the 'GET TICKETS' button as soon as it's enabled, it still says 'We are currently verifying requests...' and then starts the countdown again so one can 'TRY AGAIN'. What INFO did this person who you got the tickets for have to provide you with?

studfromhawaii

Yes, I did. Not in order to sue. But just coz I was up at 7 am HST trying my luck. So the screenshots will remind me how not to fall for gimmicks like this in the future.

studfromhawaii

At least you didn't have to sign up for a credit card in order to play the lottery and you weren't assured that this is a first come first serve sort of a deal. So you shouldn't feel too bad. But yeah, I do hope you win some day and buy us all tickets.

studfromhawaii

HST is 5 hours behind EST so you do the math and have fun

Podcat

Apparently, programmers always have the same response when this happens:

"Overload? Sh*t, we never thought of that."

Since I know that this is the result 100.000000 % of the time, I never bother anymore.

I think the correct term is stupid programmers.

alanh

If you're one of the lucky people, you have to provide some identifying information to prove you're a Juniper cardholder. If you don't within their time limit, the ticket is released back for someone else.

rgm18

friend got a tik to paris, cant go, please PM me with some offers for trade if you are interested in taking it...

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studfromhawaii

I'll give you $1

DHAST

As far as actually having to deliver the prize goes, isn't there a law says that a prize available in a sweepstakes must be awarded?