Unlike every other company out they go out of there way to list any extra units that become available for forum members. They even carve out a small slice for us from the main order.
It does suck when you try and can't get through or you happen to get there to late. I'm sure they will try and fix it, but really if you get to the end and it says out of stock, take a minute breathe, and then act like you just got there and there were none available.
If people keep shitting on their efforts where is the incentive for them to come here and give us a shot at units, and even a slight discount sometimes.
Yes, we are whining a bit, but it could all be avoided with a page that reads that they are having difficulties and aren't able to fulfill sales like they had hoped(bug is you can get it in your cart but it immediately become invalid). A little transparency and honesty goes a long way. We understand there being no availability, and not getting it in your cart to begin with. We just don't understand why it gets pulled from your cart - probably given to someone who was lucky enough to not experience the problem.
By the way I replicated this on three different machines running three different operating systems using a different browser on each machine(IOS/Windows/Linux using Safari/Firefox/Chrome). So I feel certain this is a shopping cart bug and not an browser/cookie/security settings issue.
From what I saw, stock gets gobbled up as soon as people put them in their cart... so the only way to get through was to keep refreshing your checkout/cart while you were still on the timer. When other people's timer expires, then stock goes back in and if you are refreshing your checkout you can have a chance to finish your order before more people remove the stock again by adding to a new cart..
wack-a-mole shopping - not sure if it was better to go for 6 or 1. I did it for 1 and eventually got through