How long had this deal been up before Stuart found it, I wonder? I got my order in maybe 10 minutes after he posted it in the hot deals thread. About 10 minutes after that it was gone. (The toolguyd blog effect in action!)
Not sure. Late last night it was >$200.
He found it on SlickDeals, SD can drive a LOT of traffic in a short period of time... that's probably the more likely source of the sellout
Nope, I found it independently, but after it was posted on SD. After I posted about it on TG and references it here, the SD effect went into play as the deal went Front Page.
The SD effect can cripple smaller online shops. When a sale goes front page on Slickdeals, other deal sites copy-paste, with items flying off digital shelves.
Ah, ok. Thanks. I wonder how many were sold before Amazon started marking it as a backorder, then finally pulled it? Do we have a rough idea how many items they keep in stock at a time when it comes to tools? Just curious...was it 100 sold before switching to backorder, or 10,000?
They sold up to the amount they had on shelves before it became backordered but still sellable.
I don't think they sold 10K, but definitely a couple of a hundred if not more. There are usually limits in place to make sure that they can fulfill an order.
But for a product like this, and timing like now, I bet a lot of people ordered multiples for gifts or to resell.
