"They're closed"

November 24, 2000 8:47 AM

"They're closed" - After seeing millions of dollars worth of commercials for Amazon.com where they make fun of brick and mortar stores for closing at night, I go to their site today and find...... They're closed. Here's a screen shot in case they open today. Sure, sites go down, but the wording seems a little odd considering....
posted by y6y6y6 (8 comments total)

It seems to be up now.
posted by tranquileye at 9:10 AM on November 24, 2000

This happens every once in a while.
posted by tiaka at 9:20 AM on November 24, 2000

were they adding cars?

posted by andrew cooke at 9:20 AM on November 24, 2000

I thought this always happened in the early morning hours at Amazon.com.
posted by pnevares at 9:25 AM on November 24, 2000

pnevares: What's considered "early morning hours" on the Internet? :)
posted by PWA_BadBoy at 11:37 AM on November 24, 2000

Yep - Best Buy was down all morning as well. They are still having traffic problems as of this evening. I work for another click n mortar e-retalier and we are quite delighted at the performance of best buy's hardware and setup. You can only really test full capacity on days like this -- we're happy that we were able to handle the influx. It was surprising when amazon went down, but they weren't out for long.
posted by Hankins at 1:31 PM on November 24, 2000

Amazon does this frequently enough. It's never for very long.
posted by dhartung at 11:35 PM on November 24, 2000

My local Best Buy was also unavailable. Several hundred other patrons also could not get service.
posted by daveadams at 11:46 AM on November 27, 2000