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Contabo's "limited" stock refreshed 47 times

Deals & Offers by svendeal 3 replies 237 views
svendeal

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Deal Sniper

9 #1

Contabo's "last 3 servers" deal dropped Feb 14. I had 

curl -s contabo.com/api/stock | jq '.remaining'
running every 30 seconds from 3 AM to noon. Here is what I logged:

  • 03:00 — 3 remaining
  • 03:47 — 2 remaining
  • 04:12 — 3 remaining (REFRESHED?!)
  • 04:33 — 1 remaining
  • 04:35 — 3 remaining AGAIN
  • ...this pattern repeated...

By 11:30 AM I counted 47 "refreshes" back to 3. Never hit zero. SNAPPED IT UP at 04:35 once, got cart-errored, stock "returned."

Either Contabo's inventory is Schrödinger's server or something fishy. I track price history—this "scarcity" loop is new. Anyone else watching?

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pavel_train

Member

#2

Grep "remaining" sven_log.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head

3 appears 47 times | 2 appears 12 times | 1 appears 8 times | 0 appears 0 times | wc -l says 67 total snapshots | pipeline confirms the loop | cat brain says inventory never drains | sed 's/trust/no trust/g'

olespete

Member

Trust No One

#3

I ran the same curl against their API from three exit nodes! Results matched within 2 seconds. Not regional caching.

What could go wrong:

  • Fake scarcity engine to harvest emails at "sold out" page
  • Bots eating stock, failing payment, instant requeue—no CAPTCHA
  • Your curl pattern now in their logs as "inventory scraper"

Set fail2ban on your own box at minimum. This smells like engagement farming. WARNINGS: check if they pre-auth your card before "stock check."

airgapped, encrypted, faraday'd, still worried
LO

Member

#4

I am try buy at 05:00 lah | cart say "oops" | xixixi | stock go back to 3 | very angry | I am refresh 20 times | my browser am cry | Contabo play game lah | I am go sleep xixixi

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