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Old 10-15-2013, 01:17 AM
 
Location: SW France
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Good morning peevers.

It's a lovely morning here however we had fun and bloody games yesterday.

Mrs J got roped in to book something up online and was led a merry dance on a crap website.

Two and a half hours later she finally got through to the payments screen only to be kicked out on payment validation.

The problem lay in the volume of online traffic it was trying to handle, not a massive demand by nature of those eligible.

The POTD is;

Websites that can't handle the volume.
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Old 10-15-2013, 02:19 AM
 
Location: SW France
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These shots were all taken through the window of the study where I'm sitting;










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Old 10-15-2013, 03:28 AM
 
Location: San Francisco
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Jezer, are you sure you live in house and not in a game preserve?

I haven't had too many problems with overcrowded websites, but my peeve today was going to the CNN website and trying to read a story, only to have the page keep jumping up and down as various ads kept loading.
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Old 10-15-2013, 03:41 AM
 
Location: Central Midwest
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oh wow the pictures...just my kind of scenery. We used to have deer by the tons in our yard, but alas a neighbor down the road got a dog which comes up here and they deer now hide.

Those websites are horrible. I'm afraid to use one which has a faulty payment mechanism.
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Old 10-15-2013, 04:30 AM
 
Location: Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
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get that one under glass, quick!
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Old 10-15-2013, 04:44 AM
 
Location: SW France
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Jezer, are you sure you live in house and not in a game preserve?

I haven't had too many problems with overcrowded websites, but my peeve today was going to the CNN website and trying to read a story, only to have the page keep jumping up and down as various ads kept loading.

That drives me scatty!

There's one site I go to occasionally where an ad actually partially obscures the news story itself with no way of removing it.
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Old 10-15-2013, 04:51 AM
 
Location: I never said I was perfect so no refunds here sorry!
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I just hate it when that happens
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Old 10-15-2013, 06:24 AM
 
Location: In the middle of Nowhere, Ga.
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Fab pics Jezer!!! Thank you! I love the lushness of your grounds... the plant life AND the animals! So awesome!

Good peeve too. I was on one site last week, trying to make a payment on a couple Christmas gifts for this coming season... and just as I get nearly to the end of the hoops I had to jump through... wham! Booted out. I'm telling you, I have patience... but after the 3rd try with that site, I surrendered, and let them keep their products.
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Old 10-15-2013, 07:36 AM
 
Location: Hermoso y tranquilo Panamá
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Good peeve, Jezer. Happened to me a week or so ago when I was trying to book a reservation for someone. I was pressed for time and wasn't too happy that I had to start over because it timed out.

Beautiful pictures! Every time I see that pheasant I keep waiting for Poppy to pounce
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Old 10-15-2013, 07:56 AM
 
Location: Arizona, The American Southwest
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Hmm.. I don't know.. this website is.... Slow for some reason.... I'll have to come back later..

Whenever a web site can't handle the volume.. It's probably time to replace the sound card and get clearer volume...

Seriously, I agree - Thankfully, I haven't been on one of those web sites for a while.

Thanks for the pictures Jezer.
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