same here. F em
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Yep this was a chit pre-order rollout. I really hope wyze makes this available for an actual pre order. $500+ in pre-order items last year and I couldnât get this 1 item due to the way the rollout was done. Pitiful wyze, really disappointed in you.
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I was very frustrated as well but not at Wyze, the people trying to take advantage of the situation by running scripts or automated bots to essentially overload the site with requests so they can profit which impacted everyone else who were just trying to get 1.
There isnât an easy solution to mitigate this issue but itâs certainty frustrating and disappointing when you think you finally got one and then have the red X show up over and over.
I would recommend looking at the shipping address for the 5000 ordered and ban the offenders who are responsible for ruining the event for so many of us.
I did not have fun. I imagine most people did not have fun. Even the people that scored one of the cars probably didnât have fun either. Not an enjoyable experience. Did I mention this was not fun?
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Dude I feel you. it was Wack
100% couldnât agree more. Iâve bought or sold thousands of dollars worth of wyze products and was excited to use this at jobs when needed to investigate things in basements and such. Iâm an electrician and wyze is easy to sell as I can vouch for and itâs price point. Tried to purchase car every hour in the hour from 8am to 6pm. No success and completely wasted my time .
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I tried several times today to get the car into my cart. The first few times I kept getting âMission Pendingâ. Of course, there was no explanation of what that meant, so when I refreshed (again several times) the car was out of stock for that hour. It was a âLive, Die, Repeatâ process throughout the day.
Then finally, I get the car in the cart and get to the pay screen and it times out, then says the product is out of stock. I finally figured I could just wait until the stock was released instead of starting over and then,⊠yep you guessed it. It timed out again and again and again and again.
I have never been more frustrated in the purchase process via Wyze than today. And while I donât think the person who thought of this process intended to create this much frustration, its apparent frustration and disappointment is what many of us are feeling.
Whoever thought this was the way to get the product out should be ⊠well Iâll leave that to your imagination but it doesnât involve them receiving a pat on the back.
Congrats to those of you who made it through this maze today and completed your order for the car. You have shown the ability to be intrepid and survive the gauntlet known as the âAttempted purchase of the Wyze Carâ. Mission Completed.
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Only time I got in cart at 2:00 and 3:00. When clicked cart I got the website maintenance error. Wtf
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The Wyze engineers may be in the wrong generation to remember the WKRP Turkey Dropâbut that is what this felt like. It must have seemed like a good idea to someone until they actually tried it. At least the Turkey Drop made me laugh.
Over different attempts I ended up with two still in my cart. I couldnât even refresh to take one out again. I ultimately gave up.
Maybe if the folks at Wyze read this theyâll knock a few bucks off for those of us who would have made it except for the web site failure. If not, well just keep making cool products at good price point. Iâm happy with the products I have.
I am pissed off! Lost 1 hour of work trying to get the order place and keep getting kicked off.
This sucks and I have had it twice now I have been getting the bad end of the stick. Itâs devastating since I stay in que for hours and hours today almost got yelled at my boss and this [Mod Edit] site is crashing saying itâs out of stock even though I ordered on time.
Hi wyze I am incredibly frustrated with your website. I have been waiting since 1pm est time for the hourly release to get a wyze car added to my cart. I work full time and was able to add it to my cart finally after I finished my shift. 5 times I tried to proceed with checkout and the website keeps saying it is out of stock. Again I tried on a MacBook Pro computer and waited for the hour to past to place the order and same bloody issue as I go to pay itâs keep itâs frozen on the payment page after waiting 5 mins and hit refresh the page it shows it already out of stock for the hour. I try my wife phone and had the same problem itâs frozen on the payment page. This is the second time I am having the issues of trying to getting in line to be first time backer for wyze and the website is just crashing. I donât know if itâs cause I have Apple device trying to order the products. I am definitely a fan of wyze products since itâs great products for good price expect for the outdoor camera and thermostat. But seriously guys itâs not fair when someone is in que to get your products and your website keeps crashing. So sad 
MOD NOTE: Post edited to conform to the Community Guidelines.
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I have to agree with all the other frustrated supporters of Wyze. I tried at 8:00am PDT and a little after but there was no car showing up on the web site; so I thought it must have been an April 1st prank. This should have been handled like other limited releases by providing long time supporters based on products purchased before this at least a limited time to get in first before opening the flood gates. Very bad experience that left a bad taste for the company. Donât pull this type of stunt again please.
Mod edit now. Well I [mod edit] ing wish they would say something. How about rewarding the loyal supporters and let them buy 1 instead of [mod editing] all over usđ©
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Yes, many people trying to order at the same time, on most likely a slow server, so a very slow process. Noticed the delivery fee went from $17.99 down to $9.99 a couple hours later. So not sure what final fee will be? If Wyze does this a 2nd time, Iâm sure theyâll learn from this one. Iâm still waiting for Starter Kit and Sensors to be in stock. Who knows when that will happen? I get an email from Wyze every night at 3:02 AM telling me theyâre in stock, but theyâre not. Whatâs up with that?
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What a joke. There are ways to prevent people from taking advantage with bots, etc. The ONLY one to blame here is Wyze. A tech company who canât do Ecommerce?
Total BS of roll out, I have thousands of dollars on wyze products and give away as gifts. I currently have 15 wyze camera and spent the whole day in and out of my shift work trying to get the wyze car only to be kicked out 1 hour from work by my boss for staring at my phone on this stupid pre-order site. This is the worst wyze roll up ever
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I am in the same boat. Tried multiple times - no luck. I was able to reach payment screen but then it just froze - no buttons working. I hope Wyze will extend pre-order to significantly bigger number of items like they have done for handheld vacuum.
Equally as frustrated!! I spent the first 10-20 minutes of every hour trying to score a car, I have been a pretty loyal Wyze supporter and never been more irritated!! I am seriously rethinking my loyalty. I donât need to support them, I have all the âother productsâ that they compete with. I sure much like many of you out there bought in to the âWyze wayâ just because they where just a small start up trying to make a difference and bring decent tech to everyone!! Well this stupid campaign they came up with for April fools was just ridiculous!! I am ashamed I kept with it till the end only to fail!! I donât need there products, just really loved the idea! But this 500 cars an hour on a truly faulty system or a really bad April fools joke, itâs just sad, I canât believe I spent all day trying to give them my money! I am still waiting for the big âAPRIL FOOLSâ!! I am not going to lie I truly feel like a âFoolâ for trying.
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You said it very well. Thanks ,I hope they hear us
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Iâm pretty sure the april fools joke was that it wasnât actually for sale. I had multiple times timed, to the second, adding the car to my cart and every time it was instantly out of stock. Eventually I just refreshed the page every second during the final few seconds before the top of the hour to see it show 1 second before next drop to 59 minutes 59 seconds and out of stock.
Would have been potentially a neat toy, but realistically glad I didnât waste $50 on something Iâd play with once.
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You know, at first glance the 500/hour roll out seemed messed up but it actually helped to a degree. I was able to get one and the only way it happened was by reading through the threads all day and learning how to try again before the next hour. If it went like this all in one go, I wouldnât have been able to find a strategy in time. However, it woulda helped way more if their site couldâve handled the load. 
Iâm really hoping they roll this out as a permanent item, or maybe made-to-order in batches of 1,000 or something. Itâs too good of a seller to keep as a limited item. Plus I just want to imagine those scalpers faces when they canât sell them for $200+
They may have lost a lot of customers from this and they could make it right if they decided to offer the car as a regular item. 