Amazon vs. Jet.com

Re:Amazon vs. Jet.com by freshhawk on Thursday January 08, 2015 @02:34PM (#8858379)

Once I sign up, some of the resources return 403 (IP is blocked by geoblocker ...). Went through a US proxy and can see what it's supposed to look like. The funny part is that first message that is supposed to say "Thanks! You're Jet Insider No. XXX,XXXX Share to move up the ranks" instead says:

Thanks!

You're Jet Insider

No."

I could not figure out what the hell that was supposed to mean.

I guess this is just some launch last minute scrambling or something? Might not have been the best choice, anyone outside the US or wherever is being blocked has the first impression "Ah, they are going to take on Amazon and can't get a signup flow to work ... right".

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Re:Amazon vs. Jet.com by rada on Thursday January 08, 2015 @02:51PM (#8858502)

The whole sentence reads You're Jet Insider No. 100,000 (or whatever your number is). The number probably loads from a separate service, there is a noticeable delay before it renders.

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Re:Amazon vs. Jet.com by oh_sigh on Thursday January 08, 2015 @05:29PM (#8859465)

There is a number that comes after "No." which shows your spot in line. It took a few seconds after the page was rendered to show up. Also, that entire circle is in flash. That may explain why you had that kind of experience

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Re:Amazon vs. Jet.com by jamesn on Thursday January 08, 2015 @07:20PM (#8859959)

There's no flash on there except for some thing for copying the referral URI to the clipboard.

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Re:Amazon vs. Jet.com by libraryatnight on Friday January 09, 2015 @12:37AM (#8860923)

There was a delay before it served me my number, so I saw the same for a bit. I was rather confused myself.

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