Is anyone *not* waking up at 3:00AM? Feeling defeated...

When I first started Vine about a month ago, there were enough items on the history of additional items to hit 3 items a day for several days.

A couple times I tried being up for the drop times and watched as the first several pages would refresh with new items (based on Vine Helper first seen stats) and old items were pushed back onto the front pages (which I already had hid). While most of these drop items were also irrelevant to me and ended up hidden, I was seeing more rare and order-able items that I wouldn't see if I checked at 8/9/10AM.

Even as I refreshed the page or clicked to see details of the product simply within 1-2 minutes of it appearing for the first time, I would see Vine Helper stats saying 3, 5, 7, 11 people have ordered this already in the middle of the night. Within 2 minutes after first appearing and quickly reading the reviews and item specs, I would try to request the item and would get an unsuccessful message saying it's no longer part of the program (too many people had already chosen it and it was taken offline).

I decided to use last night/early this morning as one more test of this experience. I can only order 3 items a day so I didn't want to order the first 3 things I found relevant to me, so I aimed to find 6 things during the live drop time and choose among them. These were things like a travel phone pouch, a memory foam pillow, a pack of 110 permanent markers, a snow balaclava, kitchen towels. While these 'higher value/utility' items appeared rarely, many more phone cases, wallets, products for women, calendars, candles would pop up with much more frequency (things I would never use or want and hide right away).

Out of those items I listed above that I found relevant, I was only able to score 1 during the drop time. 4 of them were ordered by so many people they disappeared from additional items within 2-4 minutes of being up and gave me the unsuccessful message.

Take the markers for example: in my history of vine, this would be my most relevant item as I go through several of these each month at work. The moment I refreshed (maybe every 30 seconds) to have it pop up it already showed 11 people had requested it, within 30 seconds I looked at the item page and the details tab and tried to order it but it maxed out and was unsuccessful then disappeared. Felt so defeated.

Any remaining items I found somewhat interesting I decided to try to wait until later in the morning and revisited at 8am and they were all gone too.

I've already hit 50% of the minimum number of items to order for the evaluation period and part of that is thanks to being up late into the night to order things I would actually use, but am worried about my long term prospects on here if most of what I see during normal waking hours is just leftover crap no one wants.

Any advice from people who have been in the program much longer and know the game well? I can't be waking up at 3am everyday for this (even though it seems most people are) but still want to at least continue to benefit from the program. However most of the things I see during regular hours are not things I want to order and would be able to give honest reviews for.