Sold, Twenty 3" EDC, Delta 3V

Nathan the Machinist said:
I really do appreciate everyone's enthusiasm for our work. Turnout like this is very humbling, but I also know this can be frustrating for people. We'll do a few more of these and if people aren't getting what they need I will open a pre-order for you.
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Nathan the Machinist said:
I really do appreciate everyone's enthusiasm for our work. Turnout like this is very humbling, but I also know this can be frustrating for people. We'll do a few more of these and if people aren't getting what they need I will open a pre-order for you.
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Whoopie-Doo, and the same people who figured out how to do keystrokes and mouse clicks in in under a second will win Again and Again! Seems fair,,, NOT.
 
MarbReds said:
Did you miss the pre-order part?
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I saw it. "A few more of these" means I sit at my computers every few weeks and get beaten by those who've somehow mastered split second keystrokes. BTW, tech savvy folks can easily automate the keystrokes and clicks into a function that'll do it in a fraction of a second. I thought of doing this myself, but too much effort. Down the road I might get added to a pre-order list and wait another year for that. Cool. One fair method would be have people post at 3 pm that want a knife and close this at 3:05 or other cutoff. Then, have random lottery drawing from this pool every 3 weeks. Those who win a lottery would be excluded from subsequent lotteries. The current system seems inherently biased , but that's only my opinion.
 
surfkiev said:
I saw it. "A few more of these" means I sit at my computers every few weeks and get beaten by those who've somehow mastered split second keystrokes. BTW, tech savvy folks can easily automate the keystrokes and clicks into a function that'll do it in a fraction of a second. I thought of doing this myself, but too much effort. Down the road I might get added to a pre-order list and wait another year for that. Cool. One fair method would be have people post at 3 pm that want a knife and close this at 3:05 or other cutoff. Then, have random lottery drawing from this pool every 3 weeks. Those who win a lottery would be excluded from subsequent lotteries. The current system seems inherently biased , but that's only my opinion.
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So to clarify, you are complaining about:

1. Not being fast enough to score on a Friday sale.
2. Not being willing to put in the effort to automate your Friday score with a computer macro function.
3. Not being patient enough to wait for a preorder knife spec'd to your preference.

Well OK then.

Personally, I have never used any technical assistance, I just have my work computer set up to read show the time to the second, while my personal computer is logged on to the For Sale by Maker: Fixed Blades subforum. I have the window tiled to minimize mouse movement distance, set my cursor on the first non-stickied thread, hit F5 to refresh as soon as the time hack hits 15:00:00 Eastern, click the new top non-sticky thread, which will always be the CPK sale thread at that time, then use my mouse scroll wheel to zip to the bottom of the thread, add a single character to the box and click the "Post Reply" button less than half an inch from the the text box, and boom. Do I score all the time? No. But pretty reliably.

Zero hacks, zero cheats, zero computer program assistance, just a post-it note stuck to my screen where the Post Reply button will be when I scroll to the bottom of a thread.
 
91bravo said:
I love it when strangers come in and tell you how you should conduct your own business.
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Yeah, it's pretty cool.

Being a small business, I bet it would simplify things and help streamline stuff so that we didn't have machinists trying to manage this stuff.
 
madcap_magician said:
So to clarify, you are complaining about:

1. Not being fast enough to score on a Friday sale.
2. Not being willing to put in the effort to automate your Friday score with a computer macro function.
3. Not being patient enough to wait for a preorder knife spec'd to your preference.

Well OK then.

Personally, I have never used any technical assistance, I just have my work computer set up to read show the time to the second, while my personal computer is logged on to the For Sale by Maker: Fixed Blades subforum. I have the window tiled to minimize mouse movement distance, set my cursor on the first non-stickied thread, hit F5 to refresh as soon as the time hack hits 15:00:00 Eastern, click the new top non-sticky thread, which will always be the CPK sale thread at that time, then use my mouse scroll wheel to zip to the bottom of the thread, add a single character to the box and click the "Post Reply" button less than half an inch from the the text box, and boom. Do I score all the time? No. But pretty reliably.

Zero hacks, zero cheats, zero computer program assistance, just a post-it note stuck to my screen where the Post Reply button will be when I scroll to the bottom of a thread.
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That's pretty cool
 
I get excited at post time too. You know the heart pounding adrenaline rush. Not because I'm trying to rush in and buy a knife, but because I'm aware that there are a bunch of people waiting for me to post the thread and I'm trying very hard not to screw it up

I have screwed it up

There's been a time or two while I was outside on a forklift dealing with some kind of a problem and I didn't have an alarm set and I missed my own freaking sale.

That's embarrassing and not a good way to make friends.
 
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