What happens when shoppers can’t complete their purchases on Amazon for several hours on a Tuesday night? They turn to social networking sites in despair. Thousands of Amazon customers visited sites like Twitter, DownDetector.com, and IsItDownRightNow to see if they Read more
Amazon experienced an outage on Thursday that left sellers unable to complete tasks for well over 3 hours. The only positive aspect of the outage was that it did not appear to impact shoppers’ ability to search or purchase goods. Read more
Problems with Amazon’s backend where sellers manage orders, print postage and conduct other selling activities prevented sellers from processing orders for about 3 hours on May 6th – and much longer for some sellers. Reports started coming in at about Read more
Amazon’s UK site experienced an outage beginning at about 6 pm GMT, according to TechWeekEurope. Amazon UK spokesperson Ruth Attridge told EcommerceBytes, “Amazon.co.uk was down for approximately 2 hours yesterday. The site is back up. Amazon’s systems are very complex and Read more
Sellers wondering why they experienced a slowdown in orders today discovered it was likely due to technical issues that prevented many customers from completing orders. One seller who had tried to make a purchase himself started a thread, “The reason Read more
