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SNES Classic Preorder Shitshow Discussion (Please Read Rules in OP)

A

aspiegamer

Member
So... basically it's time to F5 and cookie clicker the target product page the rest of the day? Plus I need to outlast everyone else obsessively doing the same? This should be fun.
 
D

DeanBDean

Member
For those of you using Chrome or Firefox, here's a little script for Target that will keep hitting the button every X milliseconds. Open your console (google it) and paste this in

Code: 
window.setInterval(() => {
  const preOrderButton = document.getElementsByClassName('sbc-add-to-cart');
	if(preOrderButton[0]) {
		preOrderButton[0].click()
    }  
}, 5000)

It will click the button every 5000 milliseconds/5 seconds in this case.
 
B

Blizzard

Banned
Everyone adding clicker bots to Target, have you considered that you might be killing the site for yourself and others, making it even harder to get through? :p

And the GameStop site doesn't even load now.
 
A

Afrocious

Member
DeanBDean said:
For those of you using Chrome or Firefox, here's a little script for Target that will keep hitting the button every X milliseconds. Open your console (google it) and paste this in

Code: 
window.setInterval(() => {
  const preOrderButton = document.getElementsByClassName('sbc-add-to-cart');
	if(preOrderButton[0]) {
		preOrderButton[0].click()
    }  
}, 5000)

It will click the button every 5000 milliseconds/5 seconds in this case.
Click to expand...

perf
 
Z

zulux21

Member
Blizzard said:
Everyone adding clicker bots to Target, have you considered that you might be killing the site for yourself and others, making it even harder to get through? :p
Click to expand...

while it likely isn't helping the site, it's also quite likely that if you don't keep trying you will miss out.
 
T

Team Filler

Member
Just saw the thinkgeek bundles on Wario64's twitter feed, man what a fucking scumbag company. Would make sense that they're owned by GameStop now, I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of their allotted units get held back for these usurious bundles.
 
D

DeanBDean

Member
Blizzard said:
Everyone adding clicker bots to Target, have you considered that you might be killing the site for yourself and others, making it even harder to get through? :p

And the GameStop site doesn't even load now.
Click to expand...

I doubt that a slow "clicker bot", at least like one that I posted, would have a significant impact on the site. The result of the click just sends a request, one that looks to already be heavily optimized because it comes back extremely quickly. Target's API is surely designed to handle this volume of requests, I'm not suggesting some kind of crazy scheme that would make hundreds/thousands of requests per second.
 
W

wesker83

Neo Member
On a side note I seriously hope their website being down the entire day hurts Gamestop's bottom line. They deserve to fail with bullshit like the ThinkGeek bundles. Just feel bad for the employees, not much they can do when greedy management drives the company into the ground.
 
7

7roject28

Member
Trying to cart at Gamestop
Oops Game Over
Oops Game Over
Finally get to it to cart
Oops Game Over X10
Finally get to checkout
Oops Game Over X20
Sorry out of stock
Refresh page, still says available
 
J

Juraash

Member
God damnit this is so awful. I was checking out and GS just errors into the fucking ground. Now Wario has posted about it so I'm definitely fucked. Why am I still trying...
 
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