Ruten is very slow, if not responding at all

The site works but as soon as I search for any items, look at purchase history, etc. it stops completely. I checked for any announcements and could not find one (this always happens, when a system breaks there are never any scheduled maintenance). So effectively the site is broken…

Is it working for anyone else?

Check the date. It has started… Most shopping sites will collapse in less than 24 hours.

yea what’s so special about the 11/11 thing? is it some kind of a special shopping day?

I guess it’s some kind of a black friday for Taiwan and China (Taobao is running the same stuff).

I kept wondering how to get the discount but I guess I should have waited until now?

I ordered some stuff but it wasn’t a really big discount, maybe 100RMB at most, and not all items were eligible (a TIG welder I ordered was eligible but not everything else). I guess that would have saved the sea shipping cost.