Comments on: O2 website offers iPhone 3G pre-orders, promptly crashes

By: Belen Salandy

Belen Salandy — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:17:49 +0000

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By: GC

GC — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:03:43 +0000

“out of stock” is code for “we can’t handle the traffic”

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:53:07 +0000

They are claiming that they are out of stock, but how can that be?
They asked you to pre-register your interest in the upgrade (so they had a pretty good idea of how many were going to be needed) so it cant have been too much of a shock can it?
I think they just could not cope with the web traffic (I received 11 separate “Upgrade Codes” via SMS) but never actually managed to get through the process, so they have abandoned the online launch, claiming to be out of stock as thats easier than admiting they screwed up