SparkFun, Free Day is this morning

This morning is SparkFun Free Day, make sure you claim your swag! I love the idea, SparkFun is obviously expecting a ton of traffic since they beefed up their servers for this special occasion but I wonder how well they will cope? If you get some stuff leave us a comment and let us know how it went.

Here are the details.

“For those of you unfamiliar with SparkFun’s Free Day (see the original post here), here it is in a nutshell. Starting at 9AM MST (that’s 11 AM EST) on Thursday, January 7th, 2010, each customer will receive $100 towards their order until we reach a limit of $100,000. You’ll have to take care of shipping.

There really are no catches, but there are a few rules for fairness’ and logistic’s sake:

• $100 max per person (cheating kills kittens)
• You pay shipping
• Limit of $100,000 in giveaways for the day
• Starts 9AM MST January 7th, 2010
• Ends 11PM MST January 7th, 2010 (or when we hit $100k, whichever comes first)
• Rainchecks for popular items will be allowed
• There is no special code to type in. But you get only one order on Free Day, so spend it well!
• Only one $100 credit per household. We ask that you respect this limit and don’t try to abuse this gift.
• There is no minimum or maximum order. You can spend more than $100, the balance of which will be charged to your method of payment.
• Only Credit Card and Paypal orders will be eligible for the $100 credit. We don’t want to have people tying up inventory with POs, wire transfers, checks in the mail, or lost faxes.
• You will see whether or not your order qualifies for a credit in the checkout process.
• Free Day does not apply to our distributors. Sorry!
• Gift Cards cannot be bought on Free Day.
• Any returns from Free Day will be exchanged for the same item.
• Every order isn’t going to ship on Free Day, or for a few days after. We’ve got extra tape guns on hand, but please be patient and give us some time to catch up!
• We are ratcheting up inventory for Free Day, but backorders (a.k.a. rainchecks) are allowed on most items (some items we simply can’t get anymore). We’ll get you your goodies just as soon as we can get them back in stock.”