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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3871886, member: 27832&quot;]It seems <i>inevitable</i> that it cleared up as soon as they were sold out.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem wasn&#039;t loading the product page, it was loading and processing the payment pages. If the item is sold out, nobody&#039;s hitting the payment pages with it, and the payment-page traffic drops back to normal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Payment processing is a lot harder to scale than &quot;show me the product&quot; pages, because payment processing has to line up for access to the inventory system and the payment processors. With a household limit of 1, that&#039;s 30,000+ separate threads lining up to get at the same resources. Even if you can get through the required transaction set in a fraction of a second, 30,000 fractions of a second can add up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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