Man. Story incoming.
So ... here i am again. And somehow i was able to order a PS5 again.
After my canceled order i almost gave up. I searched through Ebay and Ebay classifieds
but all this stuff is 90% scammers, fake stuff, identity theft and other bs.
So i came to the conclusion that i wont even try it there, its not worth the risk
and i dont want to give some random guy 800-1200€.
I still had my online store website tabs open and before closing them all yesterday,
i refreshed all of them one more time. Out of stock / can no longer be ordered,
Out of stock / can no longer be ordered, Out of stock / can no longer be ordered,
Out of stock / can no longer be ordered, Out of stock / can no longer be ordered,
Out of stock / can no longer be ordered, Out of stock / can no longer be ordered, ...
But on one site the PS5 disc version was available.
The weird thing is, this site belongs to a chain of stores and depending on your address,
the site will only show you available things at your nearest store.
And this store is only 3 KM away from my place. So i immediately put it in the shopping basket
and logged in into my account (i made an account for every shop, just in case)
and of course other people probably found it too in this time frame
so the site was just not responding anymore after that step. I refreshed again and again and again
and thought well, its probably gone now. But then suddenly the site loaded again
and i was able to choose a payment option. Site stopped loading again after that.
Refresh refresh refresh refresh refresh refresh refresh ... "please confirm order." ... "Order confirmed."
After that process the site was not responding anymore, it only showed a text saying
"Sorry but the site is offline right now because of the high request rate for the PS5".
The site was offline after that for the whole day.
I checked my emails and there was a order confirmation, but the email said
that this is not a product confirmation, the staff has to manually check the order.
So it was still a possibility that this whole thing was just some server mistake
or that i was way too late. It was sunday and shops are completely closed on sunday here
(and a lot of them even in the week because of COVID safety reasons). So i couldnt do anything.
I was pretty sure that this process was some kind of mistake and they would write me an email next day
like sorry buddy but the consoles are long gone, we just forgot to delete the page after november 19, order canceled.
But to my surprise i received one email on monday morning
and it was a order + product confirmation, order accepted, from that store 3 KM away.
Delivery time frame december 15-24.
This is so weird. Like how high are the chances that i refresh a specific online shop at a random time on a sunday
and suddenly there is a PS5 available in a store that is like 20 minutes away.
What a random weird event.