Hi everyone! The sale is almost upon us and once again, we are ready to take the raw heat and turmoil of it all and chill it down with some cold, hard data analysis. We had awesome participation last year, so this year if you're willing, please answer as many of the questions below as possible.
If you can, please get the timestamps from your browser cache as they will be exact. Some instructions on how to do this are below. If you can't, and can only give a rough estimate that's fine as well, and we will treat it accordingly in the analysis. Feel free to post information from the sale and then update it later with the result, make separate posts, whatever works for you. If you don't remember some things that's fine too, anything will help.
Thanks in advance, and good luck with the sale!
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UPDATE] We now have a google form that you can use if you prefer. Though if you have already entered some information in this thread, indicate something at the beginning of the form that we can use to match it up, like usernameXYZ or usernameXYZ's friend.
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QuestionsWhat time were you given access to the form?
What time did you submit the form?
What was the first queue number that you saw?How many downtown hotels did you choose (0-6)
How many non-downtown hotels did you choose (0-6)
What option did you pick if your preferred hotels weren't available? (closest to the convention center, lowest available rate, shuttle route, disregard my request if choices aren't available)
What waitlist preference did you pick? (yes, no)
If you get a notification, what group were you in? (May 1, May 8.)
What was your result? (#1 choice, Other downtown hotel on your list, other downtown, Top choice non-downtown, other non-downtown, waitlist, nothing.)
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UPDATE] Added a separate option for your #1 choice, this matches the options in the google form.
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Finding your form access and submission timestampsRight now we only have instructions for Firefox and Chrome. If you have trouble with the instructions or are using a different browser like IE or Safari please don't sweat it, we don't want to add any more stress to your day. Rough estimates are very helpful too. (If you do find an easy way to get the information from other browsers, please let me know and we'll add it here.)
This is based on information supplied by the always helpful [member=3710]SteveD[/member] and [member=3729]racheva[/member] last year. We will update it if there are changes for 2017.
In chrome you can type
chrome://cache in the address bar.
on the page, search (<CTRL> F) for
cci.onpeak.info/addRequest?q=This will be the form entry cache file.
search for
cci.onpeak.info/thanksThis will be the form submission cache file
Firefox has the same type of cache search if you type
about:cache and then select "List Cache Entries" under Disk.
Then do the same search as above.
When you find the cache entry you are searching for, just click on it to see the time information.
This will work for both Chrome and Firefox.
For example, the file should contain something like this:
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 16:10:44 GMT
Location: /addRequest
Server: nginx/1.8.0
Vary: Accept
X-Powered-By: Express
Content-Length: 66