amazon.com is down

and has been for almost 1 hour

[Bonusbana]

I get this message:

We're sorry!
An error occurred when we tried to process your request. Rest assured, we're already working on the problem and expect to resolve it shortly.
If you were trying to make a purchase, please check Your Account to confirm that the order was placed.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

None of the links work, and the associates section is also down.

[Zygoot]

I have applied for the Amazon Associates program a few days ago. And in these 2-3 days they seemed to be down a lot.

Does this happens a lot?

[hunderdown]

Define "a lot."

It happens more often than I would like, but in three years as an Associate I can't say it has happened often. If it did, Amazon wouldn't be in business any more!

It unfortunately tends to happen more often at times of high demand, of course.

[hunderdown]

Update: Some Associates are speculating on the Amazon boards that it's a DoS attack. If you're an Amazon Associate, log on to the discussion boards to find the thread....

[PPCBidder]

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[Essex_boy]

I noticed this at the weekend.

[webmastertexas]

No need to get excited over this stuff. Servers go down every now and then. When Amazon takes the money and runs, you'll hear about it on the news. A few hours of being unable to get onto your associate page/site is nothing to get anxious about. Gotta relax when it comes to this, guys. You'll have a stroke if you react like this all the time. :)

[redintheforest]

I've not dealt with Amazon much, and quite frankly, am not impressed. (They were down on Thanksgiving, too).

My question is how can I do well with Amazon? My items are loaded and look good, but how do I promote them? The search goes by bestselling - I've not sold anything to date, newest listed - Not relisted as of late, and so on. Any suggestions?

[Bonusbana]

I asked amazon customer support and got a funny email back. They changed my password and gave me very detailed instructions in how to logon...

[tsinoy]

amazon website has been pretty bad including their associate website...

how long have they been online? still they continue to go down.

Is there an amazon alternative?

[Triarii]

As many Amazon.com shoppers know, this holiday season something went terribly wrong in Bezosland. On several occasions, Amazon.com seemed to be posessed by gremlins – people couldn’t login to their accounts, view or modify wishlists, or even perform searches on the website.

Now those of us who do 99% of our shopping online, much of it on Amazon.com, are getting Amazoned. The symptoms of getting Amazoned are painful and easy to spot:

* Did you receive more than one copy of an item you placed on your Amazon.com wishlist?
* Did you give a “duplicate” copy of an item to someone because you purchased it off their Amazon.com wishlist?
* Or did you hit the jackpot, and both give AND receive duplicate items thanks to Amazon.com’s wishlists?

If so, welcome to the infirmary!

Due to the massive glitches on Amazon.com, their website failed to accurately track and display wishlist items as they were purchased. As a result, among five computer savvy individuals in my immediate family, four of us got Amazoned.

For example, my Amazon.com wishlist as of today still shows NINE items as “Unpurchased” that were ordered as Christmas gifts directly from my wishlist. Despite no indications that someone desired more than one copy of an item, thanks to Amazon’s foul-ups, that is exactly the scenario that played out.

Christmas isn’t just about the gifts, to be certain. But this is not the Amazon.com I know. Is Amazon.com under new management or something?

[shorebreak]

Anyone else have problems with Amazon's wishlist feature over the holidays?