How I bought the #XiaomiMi3 on #Flipkart. Check out the real story

Source - http://tech.firstpost.com/?p=228476?utm_source=rhs_most_commented
Sowmya Rao accounted the process in a tweet. We say a tweet, but, in fact, the post ran several characters
1) Registered early and made sure my husband also did
2) Logged into my account on Firefox and husband’s on Chrome at about 10: 30 am for 2 pm sale
3) Made sure default delivery address was correct on both accounts
4) Memorised card details for quick payment
5) Other users said key was clicking as soon as countdown ran down so positioned cursor on both windows on the middle ‘minute box’.
6) Practised the ‘alt-tab, click’ routine between my account on Firefox and husband’s account on Chrome – fixed position of cursor so that there would be no need to move it between the browser windows
7) Noticed that at around 1:30 or so, the countdown boxes between the two browsers were different (Chrome was slower than Firefox), so refreshed the page frequently and once at 1 min left.
8) When countdown ended, the BUY button was a couple of CMs ABOVE the countdown box!!! Quickly moved to click on it- then alt-tabbed and clicked again on chrome
9) Success on Firefox and none on Chrome
10) Message said it was on cart – so I opened another window (was logged in already on Firefox) and went to cart
10) Kept getting multiple 502 error messages from this point on till I made the payment.
11) At one point, I tried adding next-day delivery and page crashed, so decided to not add any extra options (gift-wrap etc) because didn’t want to risk losing the order
12) After making payment successfully for the first time, the page didn’t move from the ‘payment successful’ page to ‘order successful’ page
12) Went back to cart and followed same process – again requiring numerous f5 clicks and patience
13) Made payment again and this time clicked on the ‘take me to Flipkart’ button’ immediately
14) Finally got the confirmation
15) Checked my ‘orders’ page a few second later to confirm
16) Posted on twitter! :)
17) Total time taken = 2 pm to 2:32 pm
18) Now going to start process of getting refund for the first order! Sigh.
Tips:
1) Try to use 2 accounts
2) I had good luck with Firefox – make of that what you will

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