Amazon’s invented July shopping holiday, Prime Day, got off to a less-than-epic start Monday.
The e-commerce giant’s website experienced outages in the U.S., with thousands of reports of problems flooding into DownDetector, a site that tracks service interruptions and outages.
Shoppers who went to the site looking to grab a sweet deal were greeted with images of cute dogs and a message that read: “Sorry, something went wrong on our end. Please go back and try again.”
Collect 'em all! The dogs of Amazon are showing off on #PrimeDay pic.twitter.com/AkeuXI4clM
— Heather Poulsen (@TheRealCre8trix) July 16, 2018
“Some customers are having difficulty shopping, and we’re working to resolve this issue quickly,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement to Deadline, adding that plenty of people have been able to make purchases.
Prime Day is Amazon’s annual sales extravaganza. It kicked off at noon...
The e-commerce giant’s website experienced outages in the U.S., with thousands of reports of problems flooding into DownDetector, a site that tracks service interruptions and outages.
Shoppers who went to the site looking to grab a sweet deal were greeted with images of cute dogs and a message that read: “Sorry, something went wrong on our end. Please go back and try again.”
Collect 'em all! The dogs of Amazon are showing off on #PrimeDay pic.twitter.com/AkeuXI4clM
— Heather Poulsen (@TheRealCre8trix) July 16, 2018
“Some customers are having difficulty shopping, and we’re working to resolve this issue quickly,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement to Deadline, adding that plenty of people have been able to make purchases.
Prime Day is Amazon’s annual sales extravaganza. It kicked off at noon...
- 7/17/2018
- by Dawn C. Chmielewski
- Deadline Film + TV
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