A few years back I made a move to USM (they run the massive Noosa Triathlon) to be their web guy.
They turned me down saying they were happy with who they had.
This from an email they just sent:
“NOOSA TRIATHLON ENTRIES DELAYED
As at midday today the decision has been made to shut the system down due to our web providers not finding a resolution to the problem this morning. No entries are being accepted today. Entries have simply been postponed and the event is NOT full”
NahnahnahNahnahnahNahnahnah!
Told them they shouldn’t switched to us! ;o)
Just kidding.
And bugger – the crash would cost them many thousands of $$$.
If you have a massive site that gets a ton of visitors and sales all in a rush, you just have to make sure your servers are up to it.
And if they aren’t, then get it fixed and move on (and as pissed as the USM guys are now with the situation, shit does sometimes happen. No-one died.).
Cheers
They’re jokers alright.
The USM Events homepage states:
Welcome to the home of USM Events. We develop and manage mass participation sporting, music and entertainment events to an international standard all around Australia. With over 50 events and more than 120,000 competitors and participants each year,
USM EVENTS is one of Australia’s largest and most experienced event management specialists.
I’ve entered many other events to an international standard and never, ever wasted so much time and energy.
USM events – stick to event management, leave the IT to people who understand what an international standard is. You clearly don’t!
After the debarcle of last week with the USM website crashing, they decided to give it another go today, what a joke! I tried for hours and mised out on entry, I agree with Martin, have never wasted so much time and energy to enter a race, to then get the “its sold out” I dont know how in the world 3,500 peolpe enetered cause I certainly couldnt, this is a joke! along with USM!