2,000 free tastelondon memberships for MoneySavers

marcofoo

What about all those animals at the RSPCA!

bex0309

I managed to get my details through at 12.43 so probably not for me this time, shame it would have been nice.

empressmeme

Laughing Cow, can i ask you how quick was you when entering your details when you won? and how do you know you didnt win your mate one this time around? Fingers crossed eh... you might never know! :-D

tegguN

laughing_cow wrote: »

Of course, but why should they pay so much extra to give something away? I won one last time and I was grateful for it. I tried this time for my friend and wasn't so fortunate. It's just luck of the draw and I am astonished that so many people are moaning about it, it's so insignificant - get over it!

I wasn't complaining, just informing, I think they'd be mad to pay extra to to keep the site up for this

cutie84

i just managed to finally enter my details though ff

laughing_cow

empressmeme wrote: »

Laughing Cow, can i ask you how quick was you when entering your details when you won? and how do you know you didnt win your mate one this time around? Fingers crossed eh... you might never know! :-D

When I won mine back in August I managed to submit my details before 12.01 and I got the confirmation email quickly. I was lucky and didn't experience any crashing as others did. This time I had lots of problems having to refresh so I left it about 12.20. I came back here and noticed that some people said the site was back up so I tried again for my friend. It went through, but this was about 12.45 so I think it's very unlikely, but yes, you're right, you never know!

laughing_cow

tegguN wrote: »

I wasn't complaining, just informing, I think they'd be mad to pay extra to to keep the site up for this

Yes, sorry for the confusion - the bit about complainers wasn't aimed at you!

Botany

Just managed to get the page to open and I put my details in but I fear I'm too late for the 12-month membership.

This is the very same thing that happened when MSE advertised a Tastelondon promotion however many months ago: I logged on well before time but the page would not open and eventually it was too late.

Oh well, I suppose it was worth a try and no harm is done :j

tastelondon.co.uk

Dear MSE Users

Firstly an apology. Our servers went down, despite testing and having assurances from our hosting company that they would not, at 12:00 midday today. For this we are extremely sorry and are aware that many of you have been sitting in front of your computers for some 45 minutes now, attempting to enter your details. Whilst we are not trying to justify the problems, over 100,000 people attempted to hit the site simultaneously.

The servers are now back up and running, however we appreciate the frustration that this will have caused for you.

Whilst we cannot change what has already happened, what we are going to do it the following:

1) Provide the first 2,000 entrants with free memberships to tastelondon for 12 months
2) Run a 'lottery' for a further 2,000 free 12 month memberships
3) Provide every other entrant with complimentary 3 month memberships to tastelondon, which will expire on 1st March 2010.

So please do continue to enter your details, everyone will win something.

We are sorry again for the inconvenience and hope this goes some way to rectifying them

The taste team.

B123_2

Niceeeeeee!