Source: I won a lot of queues by Sony, AMD, and Walmart.
Sony was restricting PS5s by address at one point, but adding an apartment number (to a house) or a 0 to an address got around the limit for the first year.
Depending on how valuable the item is, an incredible amount of manpower will go into defeating bot protections. I made a lot of money after spending a lot of time doing adversarial research and bot development.
That’s the thing about these lotteries, rejecting people isn’t an issue.
I’ve beaten every queue system I’ve come across, and that includes at least 8 different retailers.
Not really, in cases where it actually matters like car rentals they don’t let you do many things that “fool” the half assed systems.
Frankly most queue systems aren’t designed to be robust because the company doesn’t care they are making the same money either way.
> In lieu of a random draw, Parks Canada will be employing a queuing system to help manage the expected high demand. Users may navigate to the reservation service webpage beginning at 7:30 AM. At 8:00 AM all users waiting will be randomly assigned a place in the queue. This is not influenced by how long users have been waiting. Any users arriving to the website after 8:00 am will be placed in the back of the line. When users reach their turn, they will be alerted via an on-screen message. At that point, they have 30 minutes to proceed to the reservation website and make a reservation.