Valentines Day Downs Hallmark
Posted by Steven Parker on 15 February 2005 - 15:21 · 19 comments & 3041 views
This article was translated from Dutch at Nu.nl.

The Dutch Hallmark internet site was barely online all day yesterday due to a massive influx of users trying to send the free valentine e-cards. According to a spokesperson of Hallmark around 125,000 e-cards did manage to get delivered.

The amount of visits yesterday was unknown and the international site also had a lot of trouble staying online.

About 40,000 people reserved an e-card for submission a few days before Monday and 80,000 were sent on Valentines day itself via the site. Last year it was less at 80,000 in total.

Did you send one? I did but I had to go elsewhere to get it sent!

View: Hallmark (NL) | International Site

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(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by King Rilian on 15 Feb 2005 - 15:26
Nothing better than trying to send "love" at no cost to someone. *sarcasm*
*shakes head*
But maybe I'm being overly critical. I'm sure there are some who honestly can't afford it, but I doubt that's the majority, if they have access to the Internet at all.
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by Surr3al on 15 Feb 2005 - 17:22
Some people send e-cards and give real cards at the same time.

The e-card can be just to a friend, or a reminder about a date.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by quick on 15 Feb 2005 - 15:28
That happens every damn holiday on the hallmark.com site as well... I know it's free (the free e-cards that cause it) but come on.. whats the point if you can't even load the page around holiday... or the person gets the e-card like 1 week after the holiday...

(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by RangerLG on 15 Feb 2005 - 15:54
They do it on purpose so you have to go to the store and actually purchase one. They don't make money on free e-cards!
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by dhitb on 17 Feb 2005 - 15:38
I haven't read their privacy policy, but many "free e-Cards" are actually paid for by sale of both the sender and recipient's addresses to spammers or hocking their own penis enlargement pills. Either way spam is the price for most free e-cards.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by ssvegeta384 on 15 Feb 2005 - 15:57
I just went to www.mac.com and sent one of the free iCards. Sure, it ain't animated, but they're still cool.
Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by Surr3al on 15 Feb 2005 - 17:23
I don't like the animated ones anyway.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by soloredd on 15 Feb 2005 - 16:15
Lazy *******s.

Seriously, why people wait until the last minute for any holiday is beyond me. It's not like they come flying out of nowhere at random.
Quote this comment #5.1 Posted by Sub on 15 Feb 2005 - 16:47
Read the article. You could have reserved a card to be sent out on Monday.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by MrMobi on 15 Feb 2005 - 16:30
OMFG I want my money back
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by kljs on 15 Feb 2005 - 17:58
http://kljs.blogspot.com/

I am just that whiny.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by Myuu on 15 Feb 2005 - 18:07
I'll never understand why Hallmark gets SO overloaded... sure, they do have lovely cards, but it was such a torture waiting for my valentine's card to load! My love sent it to me like RIGHT past midnight on sunday, and I couldn't see it until 10 AM on monday...
Quote this comment #8.1 Posted by 8-n-1 on 16 Feb 2005 - 15:36
What do you expect when their servers are Pentium 200 MMX w/ 128 Megs?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by Boogiman on 15 Feb 2005 - 20:24
It is wise to say that i'm dutch ?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #10 Posted by teste on 15 Feb 2005 - 22:34
There's not too many quality free ecard sites anymore. Few years back, I used to turn to bluemountain for 'em, but that and americangreetings are making you pay after a free trial.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #11 Posted by tiagosilva29 on 16 Feb 2005 - 00:44
Even paid services got owned.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #12 Posted by pimpshiznid on 16 Feb 2005 - 06:35
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Quote this comment #12.1 Posted by Neobond on 16 Feb 2005 - 07:15
its ok when I do it
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #13 Posted by WSPulse on 14 Feb 2008 - 18:44
The main Hallmark.com website is down too for most of the day. At 8:30 this morning the website did not respond to any requests and most of the time displayed "Page Not Found" message to all its visitors. See more details here: http://www.websitepulse.com/monitor/93.hal...ast-minute.html
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