BotCon registration for Non-attendees TONIGHT (Thursday)

[griffin]

EDIT Thursday 28/6 - an email from FunPub has them aiming to allow non-attendees to buy boxsets from midnight tonight (East Australia time)... but they will email confirmation of that before it happens.



Just making it obvious for those who haven't been able to follow the running commentary in the BotCon News topic, when they tried to open up Registration today, it was allowing for non-attendees as well.

So just in case they get it working tomorrow (from midnight Eastern Australia Time tonight), get yourselves ready if you were planning to buy a non-attendee boxset if they still haven't separated the two groups.

The registration link is here, but in case it is changed for tomorrow, it will be on the BotCon page here.
REMEMBER to log into the club store first if you are a member, otherwise you might have to pay more, or might have trouble ordering at all.

For those planning to get a boxset, PLEASE consider helping out others in your area who want a loose set or boxset, and you can both save a little on postage.

[griffin]

For the non-attendees staying up tonight, it looks like they won't be taking non-attendee purchases today, to see if it helps lighten the load.

I apologize for the errors our vendor continues to cause us. Since they are our vendor, we take complete responsibility. We are going to try one more time with this system. They are doubling the servers we will be starting with from the last round.

To lighten the load slightly, we will only start with Attending packages. We have Non-attending sets and loose sets set aside for you guys and will allow Non-attending registrations after the load is past for the attending items. The Non-attending packages are turned off so there is no way you can pick one. Please wait until we give you the go-ahead.

If for whatever reason this system fails again, we will do registration a completely different way which is a semi manual system.

Registration retry email coming in a bit.

If they can get registration to work without it today, it sounds like they will open it up to non-attendees when the initial surge is passed... which could be later today, or tomorrow (depending on how many people have been completely put off attending after all this).

Stay tuned to the BotCon facebook page or here.

[griffin]

On facebook they are saying about non-attendees "maybe a few days" after attendees, so any non-attendees that are still up can probably go to bed now, as you will have at least a day or two AFTER whenever attendee registration starts.

[Krayt]

They just emailed saying nonattending is tomorrow morning....

[Krayt]

And jsut went for a look incase someone hit a button i like.... but Authorize.net is down again

[griffin]

Yes, if they do open it up in the morning (Texas time), it will start here shortly after midnight tonight... so get ready if you are aiming to buy a non-attendee pack.

We will open non-attending registration in the morning. I'll send out an email when we turn it on.

I will probably be up, so I'll keep an eye out for the email.