diff --git a/providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/compute/functions/VirtualGuestToNodeMetadata.java b/providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/compute/functions/VirtualGuestToNodeMetadata.java
index 7c60f8a6cc..6475a333d2 100644
--- a/providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/compute/functions/VirtualGuestToNodeMetadata.java
+++ b/providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/compute/functions/VirtualGuestToNodeMetadata.java
@@ -22,9 +22,7 @@ import static com.google.common.collect.FluentIterable.from;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 
-import javax.annotation.Resource;
 import javax.inject.Inject;
-import javax.inject.Named;
 import javax.inject.Singleton;
 
 import org.jclouds.collect.Memoized;
@@ -34,15 +32,12 @@ import org.jclouds.compute.domain.NodeMetadata;
 import org.jclouds.compute.domain.NodeMetadata.Status;
 import org.jclouds.compute.domain.NodeMetadataBuilder;
 import org.jclouds.compute.functions.GroupNamingConvention;
-import org.jclouds.compute.reference.ComputeServiceConstants;
 import org.jclouds.domain.Location;
 import org.jclouds.location.predicates.LocationPredicates;
-import org.jclouds.logging.Logger;
 import org.jclouds.softlayer.SoftLayerApi;
 import org.jclouds.softlayer.domain.ProductItem;
 import org.jclouds.softlayer.domain.ProductOrder;
 import org.jclouds.softlayer.domain.VirtualGuest;
-import org.jclouds.softlayer.exceptions.SoftLayerOrderItemDuplicateException;
 import org.jclouds.softlayer.predicates.ProductItemPredicates;
 
 import com.google.common.base.Function;
@@ -136,10 +131,6 @@ public class VirtualGuestToNodeMetadata implements Function<VirtualGuest, NodeMe
    @Singleton
    public static class GetImageForVirtualGuest {
 
-      @Resource
-      @Named(ComputeServiceConstants.COMPUTE_LOGGER)
-      protected Logger logger = Logger.NULL;
-
       private SoftLayerApi api;
 
       @Inject
@@ -148,16 +139,10 @@ public class VirtualGuestToNodeMetadata implements Function<VirtualGuest, NodeMe
       }
 
       public Image getImage(VirtualGuest guest) {
-         ProductOrder order = null;
          // 'bad' orders have no start cpu's and cause the order lookup to fail.
          if (guest.getStartCpus() < 1)
             return null;
-         try {
-            order = api.getVirtualGuestApi().getOrderTemplate(guest.getId());
-         } catch (SoftLayerOrderItemDuplicateException e) {
-            // this is a workaround because SoftLayer throws sometimes 500 internal server errors for the above method call
-            logger.warn(e, "Cannot get order template for virtualGuestId(%s)", guest.getId());
-         }
+         ProductOrder order = api.getVirtualGuestApi().getOrderTemplate(guest.getId());
          if (order == null)
             return null;
          Iterable<ProductItem> items = Iterables.transform(order.getPrices(), ProductItems.item());
diff --git a/providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/exceptions/SoftLayerOrderItemDuplicateException.java b/providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/exceptions/SoftLayerOrderItemDuplicateException.java
deleted file mode 100644
index a08a61b84d..0000000000
--- a/providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/exceptions/SoftLayerOrderItemDuplicateException.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-package org.jclouds.softlayer.exceptions;
-
-public class SoftLayerOrderItemDuplicateException extends RuntimeException {
-
-   public SoftLayerOrderItemDuplicateException(String message, Exception exception) {
-      super(message, exception);
-   }
-
-}
diff --git a/providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/handlers/SoftLayerErrorHandler.java b/providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/handlers/SoftLayerErrorHandler.java
index e2d7092d41..129e051041 100644
--- a/providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/handlers/SoftLayerErrorHandler.java
+++ b/providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/handlers/SoftLayerErrorHandler.java
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ import org.jclouds.http.HttpResponse;
 import org.jclouds.http.HttpResponseException;
 import org.jclouds.rest.AuthorizationException;
 import org.jclouds.rest.ResourceNotFoundException;
-import org.jclouds.softlayer.exceptions.SoftLayerOrderItemDuplicateException;
 import org.jclouds.util.Strings2;
 
 import com.google.common.base.Throwables;
@@ -65,8 +64,6 @@ public class SoftLayerErrorHandler implements HttpErrorHandler {
                      exception = new ResourceNotFoundException(message, exception);
                   } else if (message.indexOf("currently an active transaction") != -1) {
                      exception = new IllegalStateException(message, exception);
-                  } else if (message.indexOf("SoftLayer_Exception_Order_Item_Duplicate") != -1) {
-                     exception = new SoftLayerOrderItemDuplicateException(message, exception);
                   }
                }
          }