I understand your concern but I believe you are still overlooking a number of key aspects-
1) this is between you and EK's communication. If you guys knew who is going to do what at when, you could have announced it on the forum ahead of time before EK put them up on the site. So, you and EK could have made it work. That fail was squarely on you and EK.
2) I say no, not everyone got a chance to get one from you this time either, due to the server not being available for everyone to send you a PM at the time you requested. By definition, fair chance for everyone means everyone get the same probability to have a chance to buy from you. Neither EK's sale nor your sale provided that.
3) posting to geekhack about the EK sales pale in comparison to hundreds of people refreshing pages on GH every few seconds or trying to send PMs to you.
EK sale and your sale here on GH may serve different purposes for *you*. They serve the same purpose for your potential buyers. People don't care where they can buy your caps. They care that they can buy them.
I agree hindsight is 20/20. Knowing what we know now, I would be super disappointed if another clack factory sale brings down geekhack again, because we have hindsight now.
1)It's NOT A FAIL! As I said before these sales serve different purposes by and large. Doing things the same way is more limiting to different people.
He knows what I am doing and I know what he is doing, I'm the manufacturer, we're not in the dark. A higher number of people AND different people got in on these keys than before. It did work, more people got keys, different people got keys, period. =)
2)Over 98% of people who ordered in my sale will get keys either in this sale or the closed sale for those who just missed out. If you ordered over 4hrs past the sale then you missed out on both, this constitutes <2% of the people who ordered. Acurrate numbers btw. Fair? I think this is even more fair than everyone having the same chance even if the server didn't go down. The same probablility (your "fairness") would also mean most would not get a key, my way, most WILL GET A KEY. I take your fairness and spit upon it from my moral grounds. LoL (c'mon that was funny). If I bent backwards any further the world would look upside down.
3) NO ONE HONESTLY KNEW THAT WOULD HAPPEN! Almost 2hrs of the site being down durring my sale and the almost two weeks of the site going down every few minutes or being very inconsistent. Pale in comparison? Really? 2-ish hours of being mostly down compared to over a week of inconsistency. I apologize for any problems on geekhack that I may have caused, I APOLOGIZE TO GEEKHACK FOR ANY PROBLEMS THAT I MAY HAVE CAUSED! I already feel horrible about this and I am doing everything I can to make it right.
4) People care quite a bit where they buy things from, sure not everyone, but a HUGE amount due, as in the vast majority from my personal experience with these. It's not common for people to have a real "connection" with the manufacturer (even though I am just a pin prick in the market).
Varied distribution works better on many levels, especially in a small market. I am an Artist first and foremost, my motives, direction, and pursuit are dictated exclusively by this. werd to my homies XD
In the past two years it has only been this last month where there has been an access problem that may have to do with me. Try planing things many months in advance and then get hung up on a what was thought of as a fluke initially.
And to your last part-
You and me both!
