The MOST important thing is getting into the queue as quickly as you can. Bots will be stopped so the only thing you need to do is move quickly and confidently with everything you do. Every second counts.
Let’s get one thing out of the way:
What website are the shoes dropping on?
Currently they have promoted both https://www.a-ma-maniere.com and https://amamaniere-projects.com where the collection will drop but let me be clear here: IT WILL NOT RELEASE ON EITHER WEBSITE. Both of these sites are very likely decoys but for sure it will not drop on https://www.a-ma-maniere.com. So for the sake of this post we will only refer to https://amamaniere-projects.com.
What is the quick breakdown of what will happen on release day?
- https://amamaniere-projects.com goes into password protection mode
- password page is removed at 12PM EST
- On the site is now a link/button that takes us to a new URL for the release
- Find the shoes
- Add to cart, you may be required to answer a question on the product page
- Go to cart/checkout and there you will be required to do checkpoint bot test and answer a question
- Now you will be put in queue
- Once the queue ends, you will order
Steps to take before the release:
- Practice a few captchas so you know what to expect: https://www.hcaptcha.com/ (scroll down)
- Have quick and easy access to our slack for any pressing updates
- Join the zoom audio live release
- Clear cookies/cache completely OR use an alternate chrome profile with autofill set up
- Login to a google based account (gmail/youtube etc)
- Ensure you bookmark the correct links
- Homepage: https://amamaniere-projects.com
- We won’t be using any monitors, there’s no need.
- DESKTOP: Have autofill set up on both payment and shipping for your browser of choice, we recommend chrome.
- Addresses: chrome://settings/addresses
- Payment: chrome://settings/payments
- MEMORIZE YOUR CVV CODE (3 digits on Visa / 4 on Amex)
- Have a back up payment method handy just in case, save that to your autofill as well
- MOBILE: make sure apple pay or google pay are set up
What to do at release:
- Click on the bookmark for the Homepage at release time until the site loads.
- Don’t go too crazy at the bookmark, you might be banned, try every 2-3 seconds
- This means at 9AM PST / Noon EST start clicking your bookmark for https://amamaniere-projects.com homepage until the site loads for you.
- DO NOT visit https://amamaniere-projects.com/password directly OR refresh the password page, you will waste up to 10 seconds of valuable time and this is an L
- The most important thing will be getting into QUEUE ASAP
- You should not be focused on adding multiple items to your cart, if you do this you will take an L
- The first people in the queue will be the first ones out of the queue, simple as that so the more time you waste getting into queue the worse off you are
- MAKE DECISIONS QUICKLY AND SWIFTLY
- The next goal is to get to CHECKPOINT as quickly as possible and do captcha bot test.
- Next go to your cart or click checkout, because we dont know how the store will operate when live, it could say one or the other. You have to make a game time decision
- If you get taken to your cart, click checkout.
- Once you are on the checkpoint bot test page you need to do the hCaptcha
- hCaptcha will require you to answer a question, pick some images and click submit
- You will now be waiting queue
- If you want to buy multiple items, now is the time to OPEN A NEW tab in the same browser, and go back to the site to add more to your cart
- Add the items that you want to buy
- Go back to your first tab and you should still be in queue
- Wait for the queue to end, if the queue did end, you should see the shipping information screen and all your items in cart
- If your cart does not contain the new items you added, refresh the page.
Potential Issues:
- The site crashes and doesnt load – in that case, refresh to try and get it to come back, you can also try in another browser
- Shipping rates screen that doesnt load shipping rates or says it wont ship to your region, refresh it.