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You're too fast now.
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You're too fast now.
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Shall I slow down? But how much slow should it be?
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U should slow down, don't know how much tho. That's the million dollar question
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Definitely slow it down. You would have to test it. Trial and errors bro. Run more computers. I know it's not in the mili sec.
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Make sense. All I was trying before is to make it faster and faster. I never thought about slowing down. That's really a good point.
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Honestly, they are probably playing the odds that multiple people in the same household can order a product that so many people strike out on. Maybe your household is successful once but when they look at the order history for the accounts and see them consistently getting through, it raises a huge red flag.
The cart system, while its functional, definitely plays into the hands of services. Scrap the cart system and people using services will have to provide payment info which will/should reduce the users dramatically for fear of identity theft or unauthorized transactions.
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Nike puts too much time into trying to catch bot orders, canceling real orders in the process.
They need to just take a page out of ticketmaster's book: capcha after add to cart button. All this mess would be solved. Meg can take more vacations.
They need to just take a page out of ticketmaster's book: capcha after add to cart button. All this mess would be solved. Meg can take more vacations.
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Then bots will be created to get around the captcha.
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There are already bots that do captcha... captcha is easily one of the least effective ways to avoid bots. The OCR bots for RSVPs make captcha look easy.
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I hate captcha's, half the time I can't make out the letters
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Certainly something working for ticketmaster though... Whats their recipe
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People are still gaming ticketmaster.
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im not sure but I can imagine they put a lot of effort into managing orders since its their livelihood.
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It would be nice if Nike could devise a way that long time customers, who have always played by the rule, could be prioritized for orders. Sorta how NT does with join dates. NDC sees a join date of 2/2013 and you get pushed to the back of the line! Lol
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Huh?
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Niketalk doesn't prioritize join dates and your method would discourage new customers.
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Puhleze! Not formally but if I had a dollar everytime someone posted "looks at join date" I'd buy resale dbv's. And who's to say every longtime member is going after every release? Additionally it would reward buyers for adhering to nikes fairness policy. Just thinking outside of the box in a scenario that would benefit me! LOL
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There was a great article I read a couple of months ago about a guy who opened up in an interview and gave all kinds of info on how the Ticketmaster bot system worked (I don't remember if the link was actually posted here or not).
It basically outlined how small "companies" set up shop just to be able to buy and resell tickets. The article further broke it down saying that even before the tickets go on sale, x percentage is sold in advance to official clubs, then others to promotions, etc. So by the time the actual tickets go on sale online a huge portion of it is already spoken for. Then the bots come into play and snatch up the rest of the tickets leaving little to nothing for the person trying to buy 2 tickets for themselves.
I saw huge parallels in how NDC is currently is and possibly how it will be in the future...
It basically outlined how small "companies" set up shop just to be able to buy and resell tickets. The article further broke it down saying that even before the tickets go on sale, x percentage is sold in advance to official clubs, then others to promotions, etc. So by the time the actual tickets go on sale online a huge portion of it is already spoken for. Then the bots come into play and snatch up the rest of the tickets leaving little to nothing for the person trying to buy 2 tickets for themselves.
I saw huge parallels in how NDC is currently is and possibly how it will be in the future...
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Automated bots have so ravaged the ticket industry, that a new law in CA will take effect beginning Jan. 1, 2014.
It makes it a misdemeanor to use a bot to purchase tickets. They should apply this law to all online purchases.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/30/local/la-me-pc-ticket-robots-20130430
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Societ...targets-massive-online-ticket-scalping-scheme
It makes it a misdemeanor to use a bot to purchase tickets. They should apply this law to all online purchases.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/30/local/la-me-pc-ticket-robots-20130430
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Societ...targets-massive-online-ticket-scalping-scheme
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As long as they keep it in la
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The best way to get rid of bots (that I can think of) is to use a captcha that requires mental process outside of the computer. So instead of just having a picture with words circled or distorted letters that can be processed, you require people to random answer questions like:
What is the month that comes before the month that Christmas is celebrated?
In which popular movie did Al Pacino die in blazing glory?
Name two NBA teams that Lebron James has played for?
(That doesn't solve the problem 100%, but I assume that it will require some high level google search parsing to ensure that the answer provided is correct all of the time)
Another way is to use TLO to forward people to a Java-like trivia game of some sort that you have to play through. And as the last step of the game you get to pick the size of the shoe you want. Also, restrict requests for the shoes to be passed only by the game. Those who strike out get a %discount\$5 giftcard off of their next TLO purchase.
Again, Im not saying any of this is unexploitable, but it makes it a hell of a lot harder than a Twitter API scanner and some simple JS.
What is the month that comes before the month that Christmas is celebrated?
In which popular movie did Al Pacino die in blazing glory?
Name two NBA teams that Lebron James has played for?
(That doesn't solve the problem 100%, but I assume that it will require some high level google search parsing to ensure that the answer provided is correct all of the time)
Another way is to use TLO to forward people to a Java-like trivia game of some sort that you have to play through. And as the last step of the game you get to pick the size of the shoe you want. Also, restrict requests for the shoes to be passed only by the game. Those who strike out get a %discount\$5 giftcard off of their next TLO purchase.
Again, Im not saying any of this is unexploitable, but it makes it a hell of a lot harder than a Twitter API scanner and some simple JS.
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Footlocker updated their website so that's something I know a lot of people have said they haven't cared. Not sure how hard the fix is but a little progress from FL but it's a toss up anyway haha
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