Less then 5 minutes. I was on the site as the clocked turned to 4:00mtn and loaded cart but by the time I entered card info and hit the complete purchase. It loaded up and said product not available. Thank God for smoking pipes and the 12 a day limit. Picked up 9 so I'm a happy, just the lag and crashing could be better but what can you expect when you have a quarter of all the tins produced.
One thing I have done is always have a CC saved in my account for those types of purchases.
That way its, add to cart, checkout, done.
After that is complete I will typically delete the card.
Funny how these things have now turned into a Black Friday type mad dash for something like a PS5 or the new "it" toy. Its a bit ridiculous and funny honestly.
I do agree about the issues SP's website is constantly having with these releases. They could do better on that front. Probably the only negative I can think of I have experienced with them. I guess its a good issue to have that much traffic too though.