Amazon Prime Day is a immense fucking deal , harmonize to Amazon . It ’s a day when Amazon Prime members canbuy loads of crapat a exceptional discount . But now that Prime Day is upon us , it ’s clip to go shopping . Except for one problem : Amazon ’s website is all sleep with up .

This is the second twelvemonth in a row ( in the two year of Prime Day ’s existence ) that Amazon was not able to anticipate the demand generated by its bastard holiday . site subject have peoplesuper pissedon Twitter . Founder of Business Insider and Amazon investor Henry Blodget is also super pissed . One of his employees evenwrote an articleabout it .

Trying to buy Amazon Echo for $ 50 off on Prime Day … But Amazon overloaded!https://t.co / sT55kLkI0Bpic.twitter.com / COnAV2bheQ

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— Henry Blodget ( @hblodget)July 12 , 2016

But Blodget was n’t the only discomfited customer . Plenty of tweet show issue that range from incorrect shopping cart to busted promo codes :

https://twitter.com/embed/status/752868452445089792

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Amazon prime day continues to give me a fail content when adding to the cart.#PrimeDayFail

— marnewein ( @marnewein)July 12 , 2016

What is the level of@amazonprime day if you ca n’t supply matter to your cart ? Even large fail than last twelvemonth .

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— Michelle Tanner ( @MikeKemp22)July 12 , 2016

Amazon at last acknowledge to the issues earlier today :

Some customers are reporting difficulty with checkout . We ’re working to adjudicate this issue quickly .

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— Amazon ( @amazon)July 12 , 2016

Now , I know what you might be thinking . This is a corporate holiday , and Amazon may have justunderestimated demandin society to make an appearance that the one - day sale is in reality a cock-a-hoop quite a little than it is . But that would be CRAZY , right ? Not as sick asthese crappy deal .

https://gizmodo.com/the-worst-bargains-of-amazon-prime-day-1783509099

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