Why Does The Checkout Refresh? Was It Always Like That?
3I haven’t been on Meh in awhile. I saw an email saying there was a meh-rathon today and I’ve been enjoying it. But I’ve noticed that when I try to buy an an item, a pop up checkout screen appears, and that screen automatically closes within like 6 seconds. You have to checkout super quickly or I can never submit the order. Often times I’ll click the submission button and it gives like a loading bar on the bottom, but the website refreshes and completely wipes out the completion of the order, and then I have to start all over again. It’s doing it across every browser I’ve tried (Firefox, Chrome, Edge). I don’t remember the website doing that in the past. This is happening on every item that is available.
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Haven’t had that - on the few things I bought (which were earlier) the checkout screen would partially load, then vanish then load again but quickly so it didn’t seem to make any diff. I’m using firefox on a Mac.
@stolicat Mine is completely refreshing the entire page (like pressing F5). I just tested it on my cellphone’s browser and it doesn’t do it, but I think that’s because the checkout screen seems to be its own checkout link where on my computer browser the checkout is just a pop-up.
Meh checkout is optimized for bots. Get gud, human.
That used to happen to me until I discovered the root cause of the problem. On my iPad, I set the date ahead a couple days in order to cheat [ redacted] system (programmed with security flaws) and reserve [ redacted ] a couple days prior to when they normally allow you to. Had to redact so none of my peeps learn the trick and reserve before me using the same vulnerability.
The side effect of having a date in the future, the Meh-rathon javascript doesnt handle this situation gracefully. It thinks the sale is over because the current date and time is after the sale should have been over resulting in a refresh to the page. Setting the date and time to the correct settings fixed that issue.
@cengland0 I hope my students don’t figure out if they back date their computer then I won’t be able to tell between those who claimed they already started it, are running behind vs those haven’t started yet and are running behind. Yeah running behind would be the same, it is just how you define running behind and how far behind. Most haven’t figured out that properties give them away so hopefully that kind of luck will continue.
@Kidsandliz Hehe, I consider that a hacking technique and the time stamp on the documents would show it was done on an earlier time. But if they need to connect to any server to upload their progress, you should be logging server time, not local computer time.
I’m taking advantage of that “hack” for a process that the developers haven’t figured out yet. It doesn’t look suspicious and it’s not a critical process but it does give me a slight advantage over other people trying to reserve [ redacted ] during prime time hours.
Another trick that I can do is once the start time of my reservation passes, it’s not possible to cancel it and you can only reserve once per day. So you can change the time again to fool their app into thinking that time hasn’t passed, cancel the reservation you just had, and then create a new reservation for later in the same day.
I feel this is ethical because I share my reservation with lots of people whereas other reservers are jerks by keeping their [ redacted ] to themselves while many people are waiting to use the [ redacted ]. You have to pay to reserve and I take that financial hit in order to prevent a few bad people from hogging all the [ redacted ] and I can at least keep one [ redacted ] for a large group to share during prime time. That’s why I think it’s ethical for me to do what I do.
@cengland0 You get a gold
in sneaky. They have to upload them so I have the time stamp it is uploaded… it is the bunch where the dog ate their computer and claim they were done with it (who haven’t started) and those who have at least started and are running behind that matters to me (those with verifiable - verifiable due to photoshop, etc. - excuses are a different situation).
@cengland0 @Kidsandliz
Hmmmm. Want some insight into your options?
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