Amazon.com Is Was Down!
Whoa Amazon is down. It just says, "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable." Then I tried again and the front page was there, but when I clicked through, same error message. It looks like it's been this way since at least 1:30 PM, eastern. It was broken for several Consumerist writers who tested it out.
How much money do you think they're losing every second? Well, Cnet says, "Based on last quarter's revenue of $4.13 billion, a full-scale global outage would cost Amazon more than $31,000 per minute on average." However, that won't be happening as the international Amazon sites are still up. An Oct '07 Bloomberg article says US and Canadian sales account for 55% of revenue, so based on that, they're losing roughly $17,050 per minute. The stock market seems to have taken notice; Marketwatch says, "Shares of Amazon were down 2.7% to $82.25 in early afternoon trading."
A post on an online forum for Amazon sellers says, “Engineers are actively engaged in resolving this issue and we will provide an update once the issue is resolved...We appreciate your patience during this time.”" Does anyone have a spare paperclip? Time to hit the reset button.
UPDATE: 4:04 -It's spluttering back from the dead. Pages load very slowly and clicking around may still lead to dead pages.
UPDATE: 4:31 - It's alive! A bit slow, but now once again you can buy everything in the world without leaving your house! Huzzah!
(Thanks to fivecentnickel!)
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Wonder if everybody storming the site for Metal Gear Solid 4 preorders had anything to do with that. Those were gone awful fast.
yup, sure is.
Down over in South Dakota as well
Uh-oh, better tell Buy.com before they think they're doing something right.
Down for me too in the Midwest.
I ordered something this morning. Wonder if i'll get it for free, or not at all?
Oh my God! The internets! It's broken!
Probably Kindle-related.
AAAAHHHHHH!!!
It's good for me in boston.
ZOMG! It's back up!
Whaaaaaat. Iiiiisssss. A. Sloooooooow. Neeeeeews. Daaaaaay?
No Amazon in Colorado.
But that's obvious in a high-plains desert.
I got an email from amazon today saying my order couldn't be processed because payment from my bank was not authorized. I couldn't imagine why this would be the case, so I checked my bank account, and I have about 4,200% more money than I need to place the order. Figuring this was some sort of glitch, I head to amazon.com... hmm...
Must....load....amazon!
Need......buyers.....remorse!
Perhaps it is Fark related...
Hmm, seems to work for me. Of course people are probably making it worse refreshing until it's back up.
Its systems couldn't handle calculating the NYS tax
Can't they just switch to a different tube? I mean, the internets is just a series of tubes.
Save the Rain Forests!!!
Oops, wrong Amazon. My bad.
But I haven't seen the lightning deals yet! How can I start my day without seeing the lightning deals???
Down in Southern California. :-(
its working for me in MA?
They need to get a small boy to try unplugging and plugging it back in.
It's down in Texas too, Ya'll!!
down in NC
Maybe its because the Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle went on sale this morning.
I think that what the message means is that "Http/1.1 Service" is out of stock.
Down in Antarctica!
Down in Maryland.
How will I buy crap now!
Down in MN, someone must have tripped over a power cord...
Update: Still down. Stay Tuned.
I'm scared.
Working here, SoCal.
All $25 and no free shipping makes Ash a dull boy
All $25 and no free shipping makes Ash a dull boy
All $25 and no free shipping makes Ash a dull boy
All $25 and no free shipping makes Ash a dull boy
working in NC
You can also get to the main page via a SSL connection:
But many of the links there that don't use/have SSL links do not work.
What is with the "down in X" messages? Do people think they are on a different internet than the rest of the country?
down in Cashville
amazon.com is down
www.amazon.com worked once, its like they reverted to a 56k connection, maybe a slow DSL...not sure.
Either way PANICPANICOMGWTFBBQLOLCATZ!
No Amazon in Missouri either... Luckily there's always the Mississippi river. Dodged that bullet!
That sucks. I'm not buying anything from them anytime soon, but I LOVE amazon.com. I hope they get things back running soon.
Hmmm, so it Weather Underground: [www.wunderground.com]
"Site is currently overloaded. Please try again in a few minutes..."
NY must have done this.
I'm watching their stock very closely, if it falls enough, I'm gonna buy. I mean we all know it'll come back.
MY GOD THE HOUSING CRISIS HAS TAKEN DOWN AMAZON