Amazon Prime Day 2018: Online shopping website crashes during one of its biggest sale days
Online shoppers in the US and elsewhere have been struggling to access Amazon’s website after it crashed during one of the firm's biggest annual sales.
Many reported that the platform had crashed and showed only an error page that apologised for the outage amid the Prime Day sale.
The issue mainly affected the US but also occurred on other continents.
In statement Amazon said: “Some customers are having difficulty shopping, and we’re working to resolve this issue quickly.”
— Amazon.com (@amazon) July 16, 2018
But it added that “many are shopping successfully”.
Shoppers took to social media to vent their outrage at the outage.
Thanks @amazon I only waited all day for your site to crash LITERALLY one minute after the Prime Deals started. Can't get it to load on the app or my computer. 🙃
— Deana Swift (@DeanaD11) July 16, 2018
Really Amazon? Crash immediately when Prime Day goes live? @amazon #PrimeDay #PrimeDayCrash I have tested with 3 different machines and different connections (ISP). None work.
— Benjamin Carver (@Shadowman1212) July 16, 2018
One wrote on Twitter: “Thanks @amazon I only waited all day for your site to crash LITERALLY one minute after the Prime Deals started. Can't get it to load on the app or my computer.”
Another said: “Really Amazon? Crash immediately when Prime Day goes live? @amazon #PrimeDay #PrimeDayCrash I have tested with 3 different machines and different connections (ISP). None work.”
And another wrote: “Dude, did @amazon crash as soon as Prime Day began?”