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Message:: [QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 3930451, member: 105098"]This is one of those solutions I like, and is actually viable for them to implement at relatively low cost. They could give a 5 or 10 minute cart timer window where it's allocated/reserved. The server would crash still of course but it would lock up those transactions in process and if not completed in time, release it again for someone else to buy. It's still first come first serve, and doesn't show favoritism, and gives people a chance to figure out how to get it completed since the pressure is off,  but I don't think even with a half hour everyone is going to figure it out and get the transaction completed. On this one people started right on time and 15 minutes later still couldn't complete the order. Only reason I did was after the first minute I gave up on waiting for the error screens and just opened new windows over and over to get the the next step and that took me like 12 minutes and like 20 windows. What I don't like about it is if people attempt to break the rules and tie up product they can't purchase, like carting 20 of them in 20 different windows and only one of them will complete because that's the limit and the address or card or both will invalidate the transaction but I think people will tie them up anyways. If there's a way to game the system people will figure out how to do it, humans are resourceful. Lol.[/QUOTE]