Deals ! Deals ! Deals ! It ’s the time of twelvemonth when an even larger - than - average group of hoi polloi choose to spend money on shit they do n’t demand to enrich thesingle richest manon the planet . Except this class , in addition towarehouse workersandconsumersthemselves , Amazon ’s own websiteseems to be protestingthe grueling workload of fulfilling our collective ingestion .
That ’s good — for a tumid phone number of shoppers , Amazon.com is down . Unreachable . Totally borked . And the ecommerce site cum streaming help cum wind energy firm cum , uh , facial realisation Inferno - chimera has no one to blame but itself , since one of the slivers of its vast portfolio speculated to actually be profitable — Amazon Web Services — is what powers the blamed thing .
rather , distraught vendee of things have been greeted by eitheran endless , hyperlink purgatoryor error messages accompanied by an regalia of Pretty Good Dogs . ( All dogs are dear , even if they serve the motivation of billionaires . )
Six minutes into Amazon#PrimeDaypic.twitter.com/2BKg07j3bV
— Abha Bhattarai ( @abhabhattarai)July 16 , 2018
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receive comrades Waffles , Martini , Peek , and Rupert . give thanks you for your service .
Update 7/16/18 5:19pm ET : Amazon offer the following program line to Gizmodo ( which is the exact same one it post to its official Twitter account some 20 minutes prior ):
Some customers are having difficulty shopping , and we ’re working to resolve this issue quickly . Many are grass successfully – in the first hour of Prime Day in the U.S. , customers have govern more point compared to the first hour last twelvemonth . There are hundreds of thousands of deals to issue forth and more than 34 hour to shop Prime Day .
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