Ummm Free?

I had just decided to go back and place an order too lol, guess you're not allowed to hesitate =P

[spectrrr]

so uhh... the good news is, my smokes are still in my shopping cart






the bad news, I am no longer interested in checking out, since uhh, they're not free anymore

[ucubed]

lol i have like 8 email confirmations for every single one of those...but only a couple quantities each...

[spectrrr]

whadda ya think guys, should I go for it?

[GKitty]

omg... that's nuts. Sorry you missed out, man.


I'm going back to bed. Night all.

[spectrrr]

Originally Posted by GKitty

omg... that's nuts. Sorry you missed out, man.


I'm going back to bed. Night all.

nope, I got confirmation emails for about 180 sticks, just missed out on the motherload

night night. fun times!

[icehog3]

Only $2400? It's a steal!!

[CigaSkills9]

Huh? What? This cant be real! OH WELL!! let's see what happens......

[bigloo]

I got one order in 10 Partagas black. If they ship, straight to MACMS for the troops as bobarian suggested.

[spectrrr]

Originally Posted by bigloo

I got one order in 10 Partagas black. If they ship, straight to MACMS for the troops as bobarian suggested.

agreed.

CI, if your reading this, please honor your deal. we promise we'll send em to the troops, just like you say you support on your website

The orders should be check before shipping so the wont make it out the door is their is an error, How do they honestly know this is not legit? that they put X quantity free to generate a crap ton of traffic?

Originally Posted by maddman

The orders should be check before shipping so the wont make it out the door is their is an error, How do they honestly know this is not legit? that they put X quantity free to generate a crap ton of traffic?

While I doubt that would be the case, if it were it seems they would have put a cap on how many of each offer you could place an order for. They get the same traffic from selling one bundle of 10 to one customer that they do for five.

[neoflex]

I think it was a programming mistake and it went on for as long as it did because of the hours of the night that it was live. I bet someone was called and woken up in the middle of the night to fix the error. If it were a scheme to create traffic they would have pulled the stunt during daytime hours IMHO.
I too am surprised at how many tried to take advantage of the deals and seem to have gone nuts. Even if it were legit and CI was feeling generous, have some self control and put in orders for realistic sized orders. I'm Sure I may take some abuse for that statements but I just had to express my feelings on the situation.

[Heliofire]

For the record I joked about ordering 75 units of Gurkhas, but did not really order them. I don't Gurkhas it was a joke to a few people that know me that were posting in the thread. I actually only order 2 moni tins, because I figured that they will either cancel my order or change the price and send my sticks. I know some of you are mad that people were placing orders like crazy, but I honestly believe that none of us, who saw this going on, actually believed that the orders will be filled for free.

It was just funny to see big ol' CI, the bane of many small B&M's, offering sticks for free. I mean it was already difficult for my local B&M to compete with CI's prices, but CI offering sticks for free is just impossible to compete with now.

[MikeyC]

I've seen system glitches like this in the past on other websites. Typically, the website will not honor the price and either straight up cancels each and every one or gives the buyer the option to cancel or pay the correct price.

[BlackIrish]

Originally Posted by MikeyC

I've seen system glitches like this in the past on other websites. Typically, the website will not honor the price and either straight up cancels each and every one or gives the buyer the option to cancel or pay the correct price.

I expect that they're trying to figure out how to handle this. My guess is that they don't simply cancel any confirmed orders but send an email explaining that it was a glitch and giving the option to buy at the correct price.

Originally Posted by MikeyC

I've seen system glitches like this in the past on other websites. Typically, the website will not honor the price and either straight up cancels each and every one or gives the buyer the option to cancel or pay the correct price.

Basically, I do remember a case where amazon ate it on a plasma TV once though.

I mean moral debate aside us having some fun with it sped up getting it fixed.

It was a good laugh, and I'm still kicking myself for not getting in on the fun.

Those phillies are going to be gross

[replicant_argent]

Very clearly NOT BOTL behavior. Use whatever justification you want for "playing a game."

Originally Posted by replicant_argent

Very clearly NOT BOTL behavior. Use whatever justification you want for "playing a game."

100% agree, and if they came to your door would you not feel guilty for taking money from a retailer in this economy.

I love the guys over at CI and hope that the "fun" doesn't cause too many headaches fixing.

This did make for a few minutes of entertaining reading this morning though.