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Posted on: 8/17/14 10:27 AM ET
Has anyone else been having a problem getting the McCall, Butterick, KwikSew site to happen, this morning? I'm ready to load up on $.99 out of print patterns and it's so slow.
  
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Posted on: 8/17/14 10:42 AM ET
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I gave up.
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Posted on: 8/17/14 10:44 AM ET
What I do is:
I click on what I want and put it into a new tab. I go do something else and come back and look at the tabs later. They are usually loaded by the the time I get back.

I image the site is slow due to the vast amount traffic it's getting because of their sale.
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Posted on: 8/17/14 10:45 AM ET
And don't forget . . . the sale is on all their brands!
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Posted on: 8/17/14 10:51 AM ET
Took me forever to get in also!

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Posted on: 8/17/14 10:56 AM ET
It's the same issue on the simplicity website.
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Posted on: 8/17/14 6:36 PM ET
I'm going to try again a little later this evening...then again very early tomorrow morning. Maybe the traffic will be down a bit.
  
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Posted on: 8/17/14 6:38 PM ET
I am glad to see this thread. I thought my computer was having issues.
  
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Posted on: 8/17/14 7:20 PM ET
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The Simplicity site is ALWAYS slow. The McCall site is not usually. I'm sure it's because of the sale. I was able to make my purchase, but it pretty much took all day.
  
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Posted on: 8/17/14 9:04 PM ET
The shopping part was slow, but if you're patient, it's doable. The problem is trying to check out. I kept getting errors. I must have tried more or less continuously for 3+ hours before I finally got through. Most of the time I get an error before the page where you enter your address. Sometimes I get through to that page, but once I enter the address and payment information, I got error then as well....until the last time when I finally got through. I would have waited and come back later but I didn't want the items to go out of stock while I wait, and I figured I didn't want to waste that much time for nothing.
  
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