I would like to share my Mi3 buyng experience. (It may help future buyers of Redmi 1s or Mi3)
It was the 6th sale today and I tried for the first time.
There was a power cut so i was unable to start my pc and it was just not possible on my phone, tried arranging for a laptop but failed. I just wanted to see if I can bag one(not that I didnt want the phone but I had money issues). There was some charge left in the inverter(battery).Usually I shut down my pc rightaway, but i knew it will hold around 5-7 minutes. I opened Current local time in India to see the actual time. I decided it was best to sync with the exact actual time right upto the very second. I didnt jump my system's time.I think its server sided now anyway.
I switched on my PC at 1:56 pm exactly (I am always logged in on flipkart but flipkart wasnt open in any browser on mobile PC or anything so I didnt log in 2-3 hours before ). Thought I wont make before 2:00 pm to the site.At 1:58 pm I was at the desktop. Then it took another 15-30 seconds to open unnecessary stuff automatically (onscreen keyboard, pspdisp, connectify and stuff).I connected phones net to PC over Wifi (was using idea 3g). Then I opened Mozilla then flipkart. When flipkart loaded counter was at 55 seconds.I opened one more tab of the same. Kept refreshing between those 2. When 22 seconds were left I did last refresh on one tab and at 10 seconds on the other. Former tab was fine but in the latter after refreshing at 10 seconds it showed 12 seconds. So I was left with one. Just when counter hit )0:0:0 I clicked at the area where buy now would appear (I saw it before the click) and I only did it once. At this time I was worried that PC may switch off (Inverter was doing its last minutes of power). While at the wait, do not refresh screen, power came back. I went onto the other tab clicked buy on it too, after few seconds it was showing "you already purchased one", wait screen was in progress though. I waited for some 4-5 minutes and it said "it wasnt added to your cart but we have reserved one for you". I refreshed for a couple of times in other tab and It was in the cart.
I watched the previous sale to see how fast it really goes out of stock. I was using a phone and continously refreshing (live countdown was not possible on the phone so I was continously refreshing) and I didnt even see the buy button.It went straight from you are registered 0:0:2 seconds left to out of stock.