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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Speedbump, post: 2406777, member: 75637&quot;]You don&#039;t just call up your service provider and ask for more capacity for the afternoon on a given day. The Mint pays for a system that can manage a given number of connections and transaction at a given time. They aren&#039;t going to pay to have the system expanded for a few hours a year. The work involved to take a system that handles 1,000&#039;s of orders per week, and make it handle 1,000&#039;s per minute would be extreme. It would be cost prohibitive to set up the system, and test it, just to have it for a few hours.</p><p><br /></p><p>What about Ticketmaster, or other ticket outlets? Their systems are crippled on a regular basis for high demand events. People that can’t get in are left to buy on the secondary market if they want tickets. This isn&#039;t some isolated problem that only the Mint deals with. </p><p><br /></p><p>Even if online ordering systems were to work flawlessly, sellouts would be measured in second, not minutes. How would we fix the problem of people not having available internet fast enough to compete with those with Google Fiber, or how would we help the people that can’t click and type as fast as other people? At what point do we start treating online product sales as high frequency trading?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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