Comments on: Amazon.com is down… http://thenextweb.com/2008/06/06/amazoncom-is-down/ International technology news, business & culture Wed, 23 May 2012 14:48:17 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten http://thenextweb.com/2008/06/06/amazoncom-is-down/#comment-363727 Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:48:17 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=1279#comment-363727 Hi Jesse, you are absolutely right. I can imagine some people going to other online bookstores but that percentage will be very small. Hi Jesse, you are absolutely right. I can imagine some people going to other online bookstores but that percentage will be very small.

]]> By: Jesse http://thenextweb.com/2008/06/06/amazoncom-is-down/#comment-363726 Jesse Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:55:33 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=1279#comment-363726 You can't assume they are losing any business from being down. People that plan to buy something from Amazon will just buy it after the site comes back up. An outage only delays an inevitable transaction. If they generated revenue from advertising, then you might be on to something. You are using the same logic that drives people to make those "National Don't Buy Gas Day" Facebook groups. You can’t assume they are losing any business from being down. People that plan to buy something from Amazon will just buy it after the site comes back up. An outage only delays an inevitable transaction.

If they generated revenue from advertising, then you might be on to something.

You are using the same logic that drives people to make those “National Don’t Buy Gas Day” Facebook groups.

]]> By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten http://thenextweb.com/2008/06/06/amazoncom-is-down/#comment-363725 Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:25:31 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=1279#comment-363725 Hi George, thanks for letting us know! I tried it myself and still received the 'bad doggy' page. After a few reload though I did get through and the site seems speedier than earlier today before the outage. Hi George, thanks for letting us know! I tried it myself and still received the ‘bad doggy’ page. After a few reload though I did get through and the site seems speedier than earlier today before the outage.

]]> By: George http://thenextweb.com/2008/06/06/amazoncom-is-down/#comment-363724 George Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:20:43 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=1279#comment-363724 Amazon is back online. George - http://worldonblog.com/ Amazon is back online.
George – http://worldonblog.com/

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