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The site is crashing constantly. No luck ordering anything at the moment.
Ditto - I've given up.
Managed it - finally found a copy of Christopher Stone's Tale Spin CD. It's only been 15-20 years of waiting for an affordable copy. Hat tip to Ryan Paquet for letting me know.
$13 shipping to the UK is very good too.
Congrats.
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The site is crashing constantly. No luck ordering anything at the moment.
Came to say the same thing. I know it's a small operation and really appreciate Lukas' efforts at making this a resource and for making large collections full of many rare treasures available to us, but the website is just frustrating beyond unfortunately. I had been trying multiple times to get in and snag a copy of Die Hard 2: Deluxe Edition that I saw was listed on the website when it went live (which took multiple attempts to get on the website at all) and I finally got to where I could click Add to Cart and after a couple of tries it gave me the notice that all stock has been reserved.
Again, great resource and effort that is very appreciated, it's just unfortunate all of the technical bugs the site is plagued with.
We still have that Die Hard 2 CD! The site is working now.
What a nightmare this morning, I am so embarrassed.
The hosting company says I basically need to spend (another) eight grand to make everything work right.
Fun!
Lukas
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The site is crashing constantly. No luck ordering anything at the moment.
Came to say the same thing. I know it's a small operation and really appreciate Lukas' efforts at making this a resource and for making large collections full of many rare treasures available to us, but the website is just frustrating beyond unfortunately. I had been trying multiple times to get in and snag a copy of Die Hard 2: Deluxe Edition that I saw was listed on the website when it went live (which took multiple attempts to get on the website at all) and I finally got to where I could click Add to Cart and after a couple of tries it gave me the notice that all stock has been reserved.
Again, great resource and effort that is very appreciated, it's just unfortunate all of the technical bugs the site is plagued with.
We still have that Die Hard 2 CD! The site is working now.
What a nightmare this morning, I am so embarrassed.
The hosting company says I basically need to spend (another) eight grand to make everything work right.
Fun!
Lukas
Not sure 8 grand is justified to eliminate a minor inconvenience.
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The issue is that a lot of people using the site overloads it. So they have to build various caching systems (I don't understand it either) to handle that stress.
If I don't invest in this, every time we launch a sale it'll crap out and drive everyone nuts.
Lukas
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Feb 11, 2025 - 6:19 PM
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We still have that Die Hard 2 CD! The site is working now.
What a nightmare this morning, I am so embarrassed.
The hosting company says I basically need to spend (another) eight grand to make everything work right.
Fun!
Lukas
Funny how more money always fixes it. My sympathies, Lukas!
I got my hopes up and had it in my grasp! Die Hard 2 Deluxe (not original) was locked out/reserved in someone else's cart for 6 hours. I managed to get home in time and refreshed it right up until it became available again and - success! - was able to add it to my cart, where it now said reserved in my cart for the next six hours. I wasn't going to wait that long but thought great, went off to help take care of some other things with my family around the house I had to, came back ~15 mins later and added a couple of more items to my cart, and got this message when I tried to check out:
"Sorry, Die Hard 2: The Deluxe Edition is not in stock. Please edit your cart and try again. We apologize for any inconvenience caused."
Queue sad face. Not sure if it was a glitch and it actually didn't become available again, which is why I'm sharing the experience if it was a glitch that could be remedied without the crazy price tag they're quoting you.
Still managed to snag a couple of nice titles. But, the search for Die Hard 2 (at a not outrageous price), or the hope it gets reissued, continues.
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Feb 11, 2025 - 7:14 PM
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There was one particular title I really wanted, but when I tried to add it to my cart it said to try again in 2 hours because it was already reserved (presumably, in someone else's cart), so I periodically tried adding to my cart as the countdown continued and it would state "try again in 45 minutes," "try again in 18 minutes, "try again in 3 minutes," "try again in 34 seconds," etc.
Within seconds after the 2 hours was finally up, I tried to add it to my cart again and got a new message stating to try again in 6 hours (ha!), so I just gave up, and now it's gone. Oh well.
Replying to my own post from December 3, 2024, the title that slipped out of my grasp that time showed up again in today's sale and I was able to snag it, so if something similar happens to you, don't fret, as you may get another chance sooner than you think.
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Hosting websites and traffic costs money, and the more traffic you get, the more money it costs.
And if you have a lot of peaks where a lot of people at once access a database individually at once, your server obviously need enough reserves to provide that.
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Yeah, I hosted my website from my own server years ago (that's quite cheap, except for the initial but only one time cost of the hardware, which I had anyway) and never had any problems, but I had little traffic as well. Also, once you have not just HTML, but also scripts and databases etc. connected, traffic increases considerably.
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Added The Delta Force to cart…reserved…wait 4 hours
Waited 4 hours and added to cart…reserved…wait 6 hours
Waited 6 hours to the minute and added to cart…out of stock
Not doing that again
Please accept my personal apologies...I am so sorry... I am working constantly to make the system better and more fair... it is very challenging when you have one of a kind items.
Lukas
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Looking for some old Varese 47000 series. Does the list distinguish between the JVC - first pressings - and the US re-issues. Very relevant in this specific case.
Would Lukas even have the time to check for such details.
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