Yay!
It’s starting at $5.02 and the faster you get there, the cheaper it will be.
http://www.nickelscript.com/nickelsale/
Some fun and games but it’s all working now. Better still, because of the PayPal IPN mess, we’ve added a new feature today.
Testing proved it worked for us, fingers crossed it continues to work in battle. 😉
-Frank Haywood
Don’t worry folks, it’s going to happen today regardless.
David is adding an extra feature which will allow you to switch on a workaround any time PayPal mess up IPN like they have today.
He’s working on it right now, so let’s say it’s a 5.00pm GMT launch to give him time to finish it and me give it a quick test. If that then breaks something else, well, we’ll fix it as quickly as we can, but whatever happens I’m determined to launch the Nickel Script today!
-Frank Haywood
It seems that PayPal have just yesterday broken IPN.
http://www.paypaldeveloper.com/pdn/board/message?board.id=ipn&thread.id=10795
From what it says in that thread, it’s not affecting everyone, and it seems clear that PayPal don’t even know what’s causing the problem themselves.
Can you believe that?
Worse still, I checked the Nickel Script and every single transaction is going straight into the error file. David took a look, set it into sandbox mode and it works perfectly. He then put it back into live mode and it failed.
What’s really bad is, PayPal are letting the payments go through, but then because IPN isn’t doing its thing, the customers aren’t getting their goods. Some people are reporting HUNDREDS of bad transactions that they’re going to have to fix manually.
Common sense says to me that they should be rolling back to the old version that worked for everyone. But no. They’re trying to fix the new version.
That tells me that there’s some change been made that they either don’t dare roll back to, or can’t.
I’ve asked David to tweak the script so we can still launch. I’ll be supplying the standard version while using our tweaked version to deliver it.
As soon as PayPal know what they’re doing, we’ll apply any necessary fixes and supply that to you. My guess is it won’t continue over the weekend, and when PayPal fix IPN, the Nickel Script won’t need any changes either.
If we can get it sorted at our end, launch will go ahead this afternoon at 3.00, but I’ll have an update closer to that time.
Who was it mentioned Murphy?
-Frank Haywood
I swear I don’t do this on purpose.
Last night, my final task was to move the domain from the test server to my dedicated server where the licence generator lives. I went to my domain registrar to change the name server addresses to point to the live machine and their site was down while undergoing maintenance.
Agghh!
As it can take 12 hours or more (sometimes only 5 minutes depending on where in the world you live) for name server changes to propogate around the net, I have no choice but to delay the launch until tomorrow.
I could release it tonight maybe, but I don’t think it’s worth the risk.
I’m sorry about this, but at least you’ll have the Nickel Script to play with over the weekend. Remember if you use it in the right way, you can quickly build yourself a list of buyers.
-Frank Haywood
Later this week, I’ll finally be launching the nickel sale for the nickel script itself.
I’ve added a few little tweaks to it since I used it last that I think you’re going to like. There’s one feature in particular that I know you’ll like a lot, and you can count on me to extend it with later versions.
In case you’re a new reader and you don’t know what a nickel sale is, I’ll explain.
The sale price of an item starts with a relatively low price, and with each sale it increases by a set amount, usually 5 cents, hence the term nickel sale. The sooner the item is bought, then the lower the price.
It’s an extremely powerful way of kicking up a lot of interest in a product, and pulling in a chunk of cash very quickly. As the starting price is usually low (much lower than the actual final release price of a product), a very nice bargain can be had when the item is bought in a nickel sale.
I’m still toying with the starting price and the final price after the sale is over, but I’ll announce more detail in the next day or so.
-Frank Haywood
