At midnight Sony had an offer where the first 500 people who bought the Z got a £300 pair of headphones free. You knew if you were successful as the price after entering the code would drop the phone price by £1.

So the site went live at 11.57pm. And I got my cart updated saying I had the free headphones. After that and for the next 30 mins Sony’s website kept crashing and each time I got further to paying for the phone with the free cans.

But the after the last crash with 30 mins passed my cart showed I didn’t have the free headphones. I called it a night.

Perhaps this was a sign not to buy the phone. Very disappointing that a company like Sony couldn’t cope with the web traffic