The e-commerce giant Amazon stated its 36-hour sales holiday, Prime Day, amongst technical glitches on both its website also every bit on app.
The users were unable to login to the site also every bit an app, 1 time if they logged inwards successfully, it showed them domestic dog images, or inwards but about cases, at that topographic point was a link that but keeps users redirecting to the same page, together with stating that "Sorry something went incorrect on our end."
According to a spider web problem monitors DownDetector.com, shoppers started facing problem but forthwith later Prime Day officially began at 3PM Eastern Time.
Initially, it wasn't clear how widespread the employment was. The DownDetector squad clarified that outage is restricted to the US, generally affecting large parts of California together with the New York. Some of the users were reportedly seeing the “dogs of Amazon” notification, spell others complained that the Prime Day discount cost wasn’t reflected. For some, clicking anywhere redirected them to the same page. And for some, at that topographic point was no trouble.
Users vented their frustration on Amazon's Facebook also every bit on their Twitter accounts.
“Way to go, Amazon.com. People mightiness truly purchase prime number hateful solar daytime materials if your site wouldn’t crash. Great planning. Can’t larn the app to charge at all,” Jessica Henning, a user wrote on Amazon’s Facebook page.
Amazon spokesperson responded to the queries past times the BleepingComputer squad regarding the outages, “Some customers are having difficulty shopping, together with we’re working to resolve this termination quickly. Many are shopping successfully – inwards the outset hr of Prime Day inwards the U.S., customers convey ordered to a greater extent than items compared to the outset hr final year. There are hundreds of thousands of deals to come upwards together with to a greater extent than than 34 hours to store Prime Day.”
