The Energon Pub

TFCC has just sent out the following message:

Hello all,

Today we will be uploading our new set of store templates and testing them. Hopefully, if we don't find any major errors, we will be turning on the left over BotCon products, Runamuck, and other club items around noon CDT tomorrow.

Please note that you will be limited to ONE Runamuck and ONE Convention Pack (below) until we see how demand goes. Do not place a second order until we allow you, as we can see all of our orders by member and will cancel the order and charge a cancellation fee.

2012 Transformers Club Exclusive Runamuck (1 pc) $32.00

2012 BotCon Souvenir Combo Pack (Octopunch & Spinister 2pk, 2012 Comic Program, Trading Card Set) 4 pcs $110.00

We want to ensure that as many people as possible are able to get these pieces first hand without having to go to the secondary market. IF WE DON"T SELL OUT, as soon as the flurry abates, we will remove the limits.

I'll send out another email and we will tweet when the product is live.

Thanks for your patience!

Brian

I would go for a piece of Runamuck if it was around £30 dilivered into the UK?

Why did I not get this email? Crap, I will be working tomorrow.

Hmm... I did not get this email too...

Well, I never intended to get the Octopunch set, and I probably won't. Well, that probably cos it's the only one that never sold out. Spinister is cool, but not $110 cool. Could get the upcomming springger and repaint him myself.

Wow now i can complete my battle chargers at last wooooohoooo now all i need to do now is win Over run anyone can help me
have a look at this auction and tell me if this it worth bidding or if there is a better deal somewhere.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300721335136? ... 615wt_1401

it seems to be the only one in the UK and i don't want to get done for customs, if anyone can advise that would be great!!!

Transhunter wrote:Wow now i can complete my battle chargers at last wooooohoooo now all i need to do now is win Over run anyone can help me
have a look at this auction and tell me if this it worth bidding or if there is a better deal somewhere.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300721335136? ... 615wt_1401

it seems to be the only one in the UK and i don't want to get done for customs, if anyone can advise that would be great!!!

Here you go buddy:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TFCC-Transformers-Collectors-Club-2012-Over-Run-Runabout-MIB-/200771041069?pt=US_Action_Figures&hash=item2ebee2f72d

95 bucks with free shipping. A much better price for Over-run than that other dealer you posted. His prices are a rip-off.

So the offer is for everything I already have? Great! I can't afford it anyway right now.

Do you have to be a member to buy from the club's store?

cylor wrote:Do you have to be a member to buy from the club's store?

Unfortunately, yes.

Rated X wrote:

Transhunter wrote:Wow now i can complete my battle chargers at last wooooohoooo now all i need to do now is win Over run anyone can help me
have a look at this auction and tell me if this it worth bidding or if there is a better deal somewhere.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300721335136? ... 615wt_1401

it seems to be the only one in the UK and i don't want to get done for customs, if anyone can advise that would be great!!!

Here you go buddy:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TFCC-Transformers-Collectors-Club-2012-Over-Run-Runabout-MIB-/200771041069?pt=US_Action_Figures&hash=item2ebee2f72d

95 bucks with free shipping. A much better price for Over-run than that other dealer you posted. His prices are a rip-off.

That free shipping is for the U.S. only, it's $45 to ship to the U.K.

Is anyone else having trouble logging in the site?

LOST Cybertronian wrote:

Rated X wrote:

Transhunter wrote:Wow now i can complete my battle chargers at last wooooohoooo now all i need to do now is win Over run anyone can help me
have a look at this auction and tell me if this it worth bidding or if there is a better deal somewhere.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300721335136? ... 615wt_1401

it seems to be the only one in the UK and i don't want to get done for customs, if anyone can advise that would be great!!!

Here you go buddy:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TFCC-Transformers-Collectors-Club-2012-Over-Run-Runabout-MIB-/200771041069?pt=US_Action_Figures&hash=item2ebee2f72d

95 bucks with free shipping. A much better price for Over-run than that other dealer you posted. His prices are a rip-off.

That free shipping is for the U.S. only, it's $45 to ship to the U.K.

sigh. the UK is not part of the USA.

Keep an eye out though, I've been seeing these guys pop up fairly regularly recently.

Quick update on the status of the TFCC Club Store . As most of you already know TFCC's Club Store was brought back on-line today, and two high demand products were made available, Runamuck and the BotCon 2012 Souvenir Set Octopunch & Spinister. Apparently the demand for these two items was so high it crashed the store's server forcing the Club Store to be taken offline. They hope to have the necessary changes made and the Club Store back online in a few days.

Statement from the TFCC homepage:

Due to the high bandwidth demand for the Transformers' Club and BotCon products, we have been forced to take the store server for the Transformers Collectors' Club offline. The system our new store software was installed on will not support the bandwidth demands that are being placed on it. The store software company will be moving us to a different server with more capacity.

Thus, the Transformers Collectors' Club store will be offline for several days. We will let you know when we are operational again.

If you received a confirmation email or see a charge on your credit card, you have a good order in the system. This move will not affect any order that went through.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your enthusiasm about these products.

From the TFCC facebook page:

Our host had informed us that the store server has been taken offline as the heavy traffic kept causing it to crash. We will keep you posted as they address the issue on their end. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Due to the high bandwidth demand for the Transformers' Club and BotCon products, we have been forced to take the store server for the Transformers' and G.I. Joe Collectors' Clubs offline. The system our new store software was installed on will not support the bandwidth demands that are being placed on it. The store software company will be moving us to a different server with more capacity.

Jeebus Crust.... AGAIN?!?!


AGAIIIINNN!!??!!

This happened before with Over run. You'd think they'll have prepared for this to happen again... but noooo....

PHASE ONE: Highly sought-after items in the club store.

PHASE TWO: Club Store crash after 'unexpected' surge in activity.

PHASE THREE: Everybody watch your credit card statements!

Good grief.

FunPub, didn't we learn our lesson in January when this happened?

My order went through, but the fact that the site crashed did nothing to inspire confidence in this sytem.

I will be watching my card again and probably will go ahead and just get a new card to avoid the crap from last time. I really don't want to deal with fraud on this in the event of a security leak.

If Mattycollector can handle a crap ton of people on their site on the 15th of each month then there is no reason you guys can't.

Why is it that servers never meet demands..With anything? Do people honestly always estimate the lowest number possible? If everyone was limited to 1 set of each item, How the heck could the server not handle it? It's not like Joe schmo scalper was sittin there throwin 20 of each set into his cart.

Myabe this was another "test" to see if it was going to work right..because you know, they might not have learned their lesson before...

Ah hell im tired of bitching about fun pub..its whatever at this point..

The system our new store software was installed on will not support the bandwidth demands that are being placed on it. The store software company will be moving us to a different server with more capacity.

Are they for real? First they have a system running on out dated software, so they move to one which can't handle a little bit of demand?

And I mean little bit ... I can't imagine there would be tens of thousands of people all clamouring at once to get onto the store.

Burn wrote:

The system our new store software was installed on will not support the bandwidth demands that are being placed on it. The store software company will be moving us to a different server with more capacity.

Are they for real? First they have a system running on out dated software, so they move to one which can't handle a little bit of demand?

And I mean little bit ... I can't imagine there would be tens of thousands of people all clamouring at once to get onto the store.

Yeah if it was SG Prime.Kick off or the junkions i can understand..but spinister and octopunch and runamuck?

Spinister and Octopunch could not have been the only remains of Botcon 2012. The others will show up soon enough.

All I can say is: LOL.

LiKwid wrote:Are they for real? First they have a system running on out dated software, so they move to one which can't handle a little bit of demand?

It's surprising. I have a hard time believing that the demand was terribly out-of-line with what they experienced with Over-run; so they should have had a pretty good idea of what to expect.

And I mean little bit ... I can't imagine there would be tens of thousands of people all clamouring at once to get onto the store.

This is difficult for me to judge. But the point is, it should not have been difficult for TFCC to judge.

Yeah if it was SG Prime.Kick off or the junkions i can understand..but spinister and octopunch and runamuck?

Make no mistake, Runamuck is driving this demand. There are a lot of Over-run boxes in the wild with an empty spot in them. And collectors will always want these guys as a set.

I got lucky and got my order in early. The new store items actually went live just a few minutes before noon CDT. But by the time I was completing my order (at noon CDT or a minute after), the site was already obviously taxed. Shortly thereafter, it became completely inaccessible; and a little while after that, the URLs started yielding 404s. Since I would expect it to take a few minutes after the announced availability time for demand to peak, this suggests to me that capacity for the site was not just a little below the necessary threshold, but a lot. (I am, of course, just making semi-educated guesses here.)

It surprises me that they'd miss the mark by so much a second time. You'd think they'd (at least try to) overestimate the required capacity and then dial it back if it turned out they had a lot to spare. I really want to give these guys the benefit of doubt and chalk the previous issues up to naiveté and a learning experience. But when the "learning" part doesn't seem to be happening, it does try one's patience.