The XBox 360 borked Amazon
After three days Amazon has finally address the mayhem known as their “Customer Votes” sale, acknowledging that due to heavy traffic, their web site for about 15 minutes.
The page-load problems began at about 11 a.m. Thursday, while the online retailer was offering Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 video game systems for $100 to the first 1,000 customers. An entry-level Xbox system normally retails for about $300.
“We saw dramatically more traffic than what we anticipated,” Amazon spokesman Craig Berman said Friday.
The official time it took to sell all 1,000 XBoxes sold was clocked at 29 seconds. Personally, I thought it would have been far shorter.
Conspiracy theory time. Amazon.com had no problems with page loads when it came to the PS3 preorder, and Wii pre-ordering – and I am sure that brought a considerable amount of traffic. Do you think a website that knows web traffic and e-commerce so well was really unprepared to handle all the customers trying to snag a discounted XBox 360?
