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  • Spud_2
    Spud_2 Posts: 676 Forumite
    It's got to be a technical error their end, I can't believe they went within milli-seconds! I didn't get lucky last time but at least I still saw the dates available. They've cocked up big time!
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  • u2o
    u2o Posts: 349 Forumite
    boooooo - been sitting at my pc from 4.30 to make sure i dont miss it :*(
  • littlemissmoney
    littlemissmoney Posts: 1,219 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Arghhhhhhhhhhh
    :p Proud to be a MoneySaver! :p
  • ALUAP_3
    ALUAP_3 Posts: 15 Forumite
    Do you think this is just a marketing ploy... I clicked my 'make reservation' button about 5.02pm to see that I had the room rate for £59. I only clicked because the home page said that the sale had commenced. When I called the hotel about 5.05pm they said that they hadn't realeased the rooms for the £1 sale yet.......so all of us trying to be at the fromt of the queue stood no chance!!!! And now I am stuck with a room for that price!!

    Can you tell I'm cross??!!
  • alison74
    alison74 Posts: 1,603 Forumite
    alison74 wrote:
    Just as a pure coincidence, I was travelling over Christmas and was chatting to a girl from London. Her mum designed the interior of the Hoxton (as I was forunate enough to get a £1 room and was telling her about it) and the daughter got friendly with one of the workers there................ the guy responsible for bookings over the website !

    They were not expecting the overwhelming response in November and didn't have the IT structure in place to cope with all the hits (obviously, since a lot of MSE'ers had problems) and unfortunately, it hasn't been upgraded since November.

    So the moral of this little story is that don't expect top results on Wednesday - the IT to cope with thousands of requests is not there.

    I'm quoting myself now !!
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  • anthonymobee
    anthonymobee Posts: 38 Forumite
    I was just thinking maybe they did it at 5 am. would be majorly !!!!ed.:rotfl:
  • Peter_Kendrick
    Peter_Kendrick Posts: 110 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10 Posts Combo Breaker
    Why Don't We All E-mail Bbc Watchdog. This Was A Con
  • bobsa1
    bobsa1 Posts: 1,947 Forumite
    It's mad I've looked from ten to five and it just keeps crashing takes me to booking screen then nothing
  • helen81_2
    helen81_2 Posts: 1,845 Forumite
    Can't even get on the site to look!!!! :mad:

    Helen x
    love my little man he is amazing :j
  • Graham_Lee_2
    Graham_Lee_2 Posts: 123 Forumite
    I t hink they are having tech problems, I've been refreshing various pages without problems since 4:40 and havent seen a thing yet.
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