2,000 free tastelondon memberships for MoneySavers

NicolaK300173

Doc_N wrote: »

I think you're being a little naive. Some of the biggest sites out there also use promotions like this to harvest email addresses, which they can then sell on. That's also the nature of the internet for you.

There is no such thing as a free lunch!!! or dinner!!

bulletproof_1979

Doc_N wrote: »

I think you're being a little naive. Some of the biggest sites out there also use promotions like this to harvest email addresses, which they can then sell on. That's also the nature of the internet for you.

I agree this is sometimes done. You can avoid the potential perils of this by not entering. Entirely your choice.

coxinio

Managed to get through on firefox at 12.30, got the confirmation page so hopefully not too late. My colleague is still trying however and can't get past entering his details.

elpachio

I knew their server would crash at midday....pathetic. Why do they even bother??! !

bulletproof_1979

ledhead214 wrote: »

I agree that people outside of London shouldn't be able to enter. A London postcode should be a pre-requisite. There are similar cards that have a nationwide remit.

Good thing you're not in charge then isn't it? I don't live in London but I work there and I'm willing to bet I eat out there a lot more than most locals...

kidhash

bulletproof_1979 wrote: »

Well done for clearly bluffing your way through your career.

As a regular concert goer I know first hand that the same thing happens to the ticketmaster and a multitude of other ticket websites when popular tickets go on sale. They can often be down for hours.

You can ask anyone who's ever tried to get a travelodge room at 6pm during the sales how often that goes down. What of the Next site during sales?

I could go on, but I think I'll summarize by saying - you're talking rubbish.

He's not talking rubbish at all. It's quite possible to provision for a million users, or 10 million users, if you want. The issue is cost, and I'm sure that's what the factor is in this case.

See/TM could easily ensure that their servers stayed up during glastonbury/leeds/reading sales times, but there'd be a large cost associated, and that's why it isn't done.

marcofoo

ledhead214 wrote: »

I agree that people outside of London shouldn't be able to enter. A London postcode should be a pre-requisite. There are similar cards that have a nationwide remit.

I live in London but get all my post delivered to Dorset.

Fail.

clareneal

ledhead214 wrote: »

I agree that people outside of London shouldn't be able to enter. A London postcode should be a pre-requisite. There are similar cards that have a nationwide remit.

I disagree - there are many people (including me) that commute into london from just outside, and spend the majority of their time here at work and afterwards when seeing friends. I'm looking forward to either my month or year of using it !!

tintysteph

hmm it is displaying now, but with no space to put info in... i managed to type info in earlier and click send but website went down whilst it was sending my info... no idea if it sent or not! (

oh well, it is a freebie... they give them away enough times each year, onto the next one!!!

tegguN

bulletproof_1979 wrote: »

Well done for clearly bluffing your way through your career.

As a regular concert goer I know first hand that the same thing happens to the ticketmaster and a multitude of other ticket websites when popular tickets go on sale. They can often be down for hours.

You can ask anyone who's ever tried to get a travelodge room at 6pm during the sales how often that goes down. What of the Next site during sales?

I could go on, but I think I'll summarize by saying - you're talking rubbish.

You're both correct- servers, bandwidth and man hours all cost money, ticketmaster, seeticket etc. along with tastelondon won't pay extra to sell tickets (or give stuff away), because they know they'll all go within a day or two regardless of the state of the site- they could keep the site up if they really wanted to.