PPO Question?

So I actually got a SSE Darth Vader in 3:29. My first PPO Figure! The question is how did some people get it under a minute? Please share how you did your ordering. For example mines.

Used FireFox and used the sideshow banner but I had 2 windows opened which 1 of them had 3 tabs (2-ordering Darth Vader and 1-sideshowcollectors forums). Possibly slowed my ordering process. And was waiting for the streamline for an hour to come on. I was lucky to get one.

Anyways please share your tips it may be useful for others in the future. Also what are the do's and don'ts.

I think it's all just luck of the draw. I have two monitors on my computer at work and just opened the Sideshow site in each one. The first one that came up was the one I placed my order on. I got Vader in a little over a minute. It took about 2-3 minutes to get the stormtrooper.

i screwed myself over by hitting refresh once for vader cuz it was seriously taking forever and i thought the site froze up. but i still got him in the 3rd minute. probably would've got him faster if i didnt try refreshing. personally ive never missed a PPO when ive been at the computer ahead of time. just depends how fast your connection is. i bet you couldnt even get an order in from dial-up.

Chris has done an amazing job with the PPO's recently.

I remember in the old days when it would take 15-30 minutes of refreshing and timed-out connections before possibly getting through and ordering the item. Those were very fustrating PPO days. I don't remember those days too fondly...

Do you think of me having 3 tabs open caused my computer to run slower? I was trying to order it on 3 tabs hoping one will go faster than the other. Was that a mistake? I'm glad that I switched over to road runner, I believe that helped me out.

the same happened to me, i hit the refresh button and it took forever to open the ss page........but i got my vader 4 minutes after the ppo opened.

yeah i know you're not supposed to refresh but i cant help it. it's habit.

I think its because you're another bandwagon Batman fan that you were pushed back past three minutes.

If you were original it would have happened quicker.

I hit the home page a few mins before the PPO time and it refreshed to the PPO within 30 seconds of 10AM/12PM PST. I placed my order and waited 30 seconds for it to process. Simple and definitely the most streamlined process I have even experienced in the years of participating in SSC & MasterReplicas PPOs. Well done Sideshow!

I am in the UK BTW.

The site does work pretty well for the most part... but this was definitely a nail biter of a pre-order. Just important to trust that the site will work.

The Craw said:

just depends how fast your connection is. i bet you couldnt even get an order in from dial-up.

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I actually don't think connection speed or anything else on your end has much to do with it. The reason it's slow is that their systems are overwhelmed with accesses -- your computer is just waiting for their side to respond.

I don't know, I just closed all windows except for SS about a minute before the ppo started. did what it said and left it alone. got them both in about a minute and change.

The Craw said:

yeah i know you're not supposed to refresh but i cant help it. it's habit.

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Personally, I think refreshing helped me get the two faux bronze marvel pieces I wanted, I wasn't about to wait for screen to "auto-update" cause I was about 5 seconds waiting and no autoupdate so I just hit refresh and ordered.

But on the Vader PPO, I got it taken care of at SDCC, much simpler.

mr.thrifty said:

I don't know, I just closed all windows except for SS about a minute before the ppo started. did what it said and left it alone. got them both in about a minute and change.

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I should of done that, but I got too excited and this was my first PPO and I never know what to expect. I even clicked the last confirm button twice because it was taking too long. That probably caused my order to go through longer.

I learned my lesson about refreshing. I let the page load until it gives me an error or time out message.

I did not need to PPO today. But a buddy used my computer and I talked him in to being patient on the refreshes and he scored the Vader. He didn't try for the trooper.

Yes, I'm pretty confident I missed out on Vader because I panicked and hit refresh.

Yeah, I have a feeling that refreshing once the PPO has started will lose you your place in line. I did it as well, because sometimes my internet connection just stalls for some reason. I still got in, but it was kind of close.

I'm just happy the site didn't crash on either PPO

Both Vader and Stormtroopers PPO went smoothly, just not enough of em lol.

EVILFACE said:

Both Vader and Stormtroopers PPO went smoothly, just not enough of em lol.

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I know man.

If you weren't waiting for the site to reload before the PPO you didn't get it.