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Amazon Collapses Under Weight of 1,000 Xboxes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everyone-is-falling-down dept.

theodp writes "Is there such a thing as a BusinessWeek Cover Jinx? Amazon was bitten by the success of its 1,000 Xboxes for $100 promotion, which brought the entire site to its knees for about 15 minutes on Thanksgiving Day. Singing the too-much-traffic blues on Black Friday were Wal-Mart and Disney."

2 of 162 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Heh. by slakdrgn · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...Atleast that was the plan. Didn't turn out so well for Amazon when their site went down for hours.

  2. Re:'beta test' ? by Quixote · · Score: 0, Troll

    It was moderated " interesting ", not "insightful", you retard.