We are experiencing another shipping bug, exact same problem as before. Only this time we caught that a little sooner & have temporarily deactivated USPS as a shipping option until this is resolved.
Update: Our server is still not connecting so we have written a work-around which manually added priority as an option, albeit temporarily. Note that the cost is based on generic price ranges & not weight limits, so the rates may be a little high or a little low, depending on what you are ordering.
Update2 12/9 12:21pm: We are no longer pinging the USPS server to calculate mail rates, it is instead done on our server now. This should avoid any future bottlenecks and also speed up the checkout process.
For the next 13hours and 48minutes, we are offering $1 standard shipping on all orders over $14. Not $100, not $50, not $30. Spend $14 or more and standard shipping is just one buck. No coupons, no special links.
We are launching a 3 day shock & awe campaign to blow out some excess inventory — save 25% on over 40 in stock shocking gags & shockaholic games on any new order placed between now & Monday, 11/17 12:00pm.
Resellers: discounts will be much deeper when combined with quantity discounts — for example if you buy 144 or more shock pens the price drops to just $1.00 each!
For the last couple of hours our shopping cart has been down on and off, meaning that many of you have not been able to place orders. We have received a few dozen emails about this, and will contact everyone else individually if you have not yet contacted us….
Many of you saw the following, or something similar on the second step of the checkout process:
msxml3.dll error '80072ee2'
includes/shipcalc/shipcaltools.asp line 179
That single line of code is the communication between our server and that of USPS’ server — which in a nutshell, is what calculates your shipping rates. Our server sends over the weight of your shopping cart, and then gets a total based on that weight. Usually this happens within a fraction of a second, but currently it is taking longer than 30seconds (thus creating a timeout error), or it is not happening at all, thus terminating the connection completely.
Someone is looking into this, but as a temporary measure we have deactivated USPS priority as a shipping method for the time being. USPS 1st class is calculated without any communication between their server and will work fine on orders weighing less than 13oz. For all other orders you will automatically be given UPS ground shipping. You can contact us directly if you would like to change that to USPS priority and we can do that for you manually.
There is a pretty funny “graucho” photoshop contest over at photoshoptalent you may want to check out, it is still open if any of you have what it takes.
Though there may not be enough time to grow a proper moustache between now and 0ctober 6th (and though many of you can’t grow one), you still have time to buy a fake moustache if you place your order soon — especially if you live on the east coast.
Order one today for just $0.88pc, or place any order over $7 and use discount code “moustache” and we will throw one in for free. Offer ends 10/06/08.
