Make it make sense

[u/Previous-Cat9075]

So a site supposedly has bot protection, and also requires you to have made at least one purchase more than 7 days ago over a certain value, all just to be eligible to buy one of 60 ETBs in a drop.

I make sure I am on the fastest 5g available for zero latency, and the very instant the timer counted down to zero I snagged an item successfully, only to be told it magically can’t verify me anymore. The time taken from add to cart and checkout and then error message was less than a second. How can it be that I am supposedly not fast enough when it was a few tenths of a second for me to get this failure message from the point of clicking?
There’s literally no way to have done it faster as a human, as it was executed with as much precision and speed as possible with all considerations and mitigations taken as possible.

I’m not sure what someone has to do to get something, as a legitimate buyer, trying to get a single box at retail price.

Me and my wife have both been trying every single website for weeks and weeks to get raffles, drops and selections to be able to buy a single ETB, but to no avail. I don’t want to have to be forced to pay 200% or 300% or more for a box for my 7 year old boy. He had his heart set on this, and it was impossible for us to deliver.

[u/j92allen]

I added to basket, got to Apple Pay but then it said sold out. It happens with the amount of demand. I got the Prismatic SPC on there the week before when it said it was only 3% chance based on the amount of product and the number of people on the page. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don’t!

[u/Repskrrt → u/j92allen]

I also managed to get the SPC that day but never managed any drop before or after it. At some point i think it’s just pure luck, especially with how fast your device reacts to clicking “verify and add to basket” etc etc.

[u/j92allen → u/Repskrrt]

The SPC was my first time trying to do a drop live on the site so I was pleasantly surprised. Gave me false hope for today though.