Comments on: Amazon.com hit with outages

Online retail giant confirms site-performance problems but doesn't give an explanation.

Amazon's Decline?

As of 10:55 pm EST, various parts of Amazon including "Track Packages" are still down. Some Cart Items suddenly moved to "No longer available" status. I have been a loyal Amazon customer for two years now, but will start looking for alternatives for my Christmas shopping.

Thanks for nothing, Amazon!

I had done my online Christmas shopping last week, and was looking forward to logging in yesterday and moving my "Cart" items from "Saved" to "Buy Now." Well, guess what?

Thanks for nothing, Amazon! If my friend's kid doesn't get her "Disney Princess Theater" book, will you buy it for her, Mr. Jeff freakin' Bezos??

Holy Crap!

Some kid might not get a book he wanted for christmas because you dragged your feet?

The horror!!!!

He will survive that crippling blow somehow.

[sdencar]

blah blah blah

Online shopping is still a relatively new technology. In fact, in the grand scheme of things, computers are still a new technology. And, with new technologies come new problems. They had some problems, and you people are abandoning a business you liked? What if you favorite brick and mortar store had an unavoidable plumbing leak and had to shut down for a few hours to clean up. Would you abandon them forever? If you would, then you are petty and you disgust me. If you like them, then stick with them through hard times, too.

[Sboston]

Agreed.

Some outages are just unavoidable. From what I read here most of the issues were resolved fairly quickly.

As for the shopping cart. I didn't realize that you could leave items in it for an extended period of time and they would remain there. It looks like to me that they would expire or time out after a while.

What is your problem?

You had items in the cart, and while you were deciding to buy, they sold out?

Do you really expect a store to hold merchandise for you when there is a customer in front of them waving money?

[Ubber geek]

items in the cart

http://www.analogstereo.com/index.htm

[Gasaraki]

OMG!

Oh No! The sky is falling. The first two people are complaining about not being able to get to the site because of people like him who wait till the last minute to do their shopping. If this makes you losers feel any better, it was me, it was me clogging Amazon because I kept hitting refresh to get the XBOX360 deal for $100. And I got one. HAHA. I didn't even have any problems on Amazon that day.

[Gasaraki]

OMG!

Oh No! The sky is falling. The first two people are complaining about not being able to get to the site because of people like him who wait till the last minute to do their shopping. If this makes you losers feel any better, it was me, it was me clogging Amazon because I kept hitting refresh to get the XBOX360 deal for $100. And I got one. HAHA. I didn't even have any problems on Amazon that day.

[k3d8n]

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