Hodinkee 10/10

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Anyone trying to score a Rolex at MSRP on Hodinkee's 10/10 celebration?
 
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Impossible to get through, tried a few times and gave up.
 
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Impossible to get through, tried a few times and gave up.

Same here. I tried for a while, but gave up.
 
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Same here. I tried for a while, but gave up.
So close… I added the item to my cart, had to answer a captcha which was slow to process once I hit submit, got to the cart and “sold out”

 
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TLDR: You didn't miss out on anything.

That's a pretty good promo to get rid of inventory.

Dink offers 10 (used) Rolex at MSRP. They released ONE every hour, to say, 2 millions readers. Yep, this whole big ass event is to reduce inventory.

For the remaining 1,999,990 of you didn't get one, you get a 10% coupon for anything in their shop.

The super nerds are using bots to snatch these, the first millisecond it's released. My browser couldn't load till after... 3 freaking minutes. Might as well be 30 years.

edit to add: Cole Pennington has left Dink. His last Talking Watch video is released today. The original Dink team are all gone.
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My browser couldn't load till after... 3 freaking minutes.
The second the countdown clock hit 0, my browser refreshed instantly and I was able to add the watch to my cart. Had to answer a stupid captcha before I could get to my cart. It was easy, two squares, sweet- hit submit! 30 seconds of load later, I get to my cart- “sold out.” Do agree with the rest of your post though.
 
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The second the countdown clock hit 0, my browser refreshed instantly and I was able to add the watch to my cart. Had to answer a stupid captcha before I could get to my cart. It was easy, two squares, sweet- hit submit! 30 seconds of load later, I get to my cart- “sold out.” Do agree with the rest of your post though.

super nerd alert!!!
Which were you trying to snatch?
 
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super nerd alert!!!
Which were you trying to snatch?
Honestly, I was just looking. My luck is usually that of your experience and knowing people use bots, I had no expectations of "winning" anything. I was busy during releases 1-9 and found idle time for release number 10 so I figured I would try my hand. There was a brief glimmer of hope but the captcha struck that down rather quickly.
 
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Sponsored Rolex article to say how available Rolex is now is getting typed as you read this....
 
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Sponsored Rolex article to say how available Rolex is now is getting typed as you read this....
So available- but not for you!
 
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All I can say is thank God there is this forum. Hodinkee really has gotten just worse and worse. The commerce side of it has really ruined it.
 
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All I can say is thank God there is this forum. Hodinkee really has gotten just worse and worse. The commerce side of it has really ruined it.

How dare they try to make money and have a sustainable business