Amazon, like many other online retailers were brought down yesterday from eager users trying to get their hands on some limited offers from the sites. Sears.com, Saksfifthavenue.com, lowes.com, victoriassecret.com, amazon.com and many others were overwhelmed with internet traffic from users that the sites experienced down time due to too many users trying to get cheap black Friday deals.
Much like last year, Amazon.com was hit the hardest again, offering electronics, video games, and personal media from 10% - 70% off some items, making Amazon.com a hot spot for online shoppers. Last year, Amazon.com was brought down due to black Friday shoppers trying to access the web site to save on things like Xbox360, and many other things.
Many online retails, including shoppers are not surprised by the event bringing major sites offline. This year's black Friday deals where heavily promoted, offering great deals to users on a first come, first serve basis. Overcrowding malls made online shopping web sites very tempting to millions of shoppers to avoid giant line ups, all from the convenience of their home.
I know, it's quite sad to see people acting like animals. People waiting in line for food rations and water somewhere in a refugee camp in Africa would be less likely to trample someone. These people on the other hand, did it purely for greed, with disregard for anybody else. It's sad to see society turning into this...
You gotta admit this is very low even for greedy American consumer zombies. =p
Christmas is a very scary place around chrissy time... Working in retail... see some crazy people running to be first to grab one of 80 items to be sold in the next hour...
ill get my other bits inthe week when its not so busy
I was out and about a couple times yesterday. Wasn't any different around here than any other day, as far as I noticed. Now, today seemed a little busier.
Edit: Oh wait, i should read the whole article before posting from now on.. lol I thought it was going to talk about how they lost money.
You are an electronics/clothing/books/porn/whatever shop. With a few narrow exceptions (Wal-Mart, K-mart, and possibly Seats), your offerings are too narrow-- we are probably not going to do ALL our Christmas shopping at you. Your entire loss-leader philosophy is devoted to such a delusion.
Therefore, there's limited benefit in getting us to queue up in hopes of the limited-supply loss-leaders. We may well leave with nothing but them.
Instead of the insane "only two of these in the store" deals, give us deals with a reasonable supply-- and advertise as follows: "We will stock this item at 6AM, 9AM, noon, and 3PM". This will dramatically reduce queuing, fighting, and the need for crowd control.
Furthermore, you might attract more customers-- I know most years, I don't even bother, assuming the special-offer I covet is going to be gone by the time I get there, since the shop opened at 4AM.
Oh wait.....
Or have more Black-Friday like sales throughout the year. But just dont announce it to everyone.
Alistair Darling expects us to guy empty the shelves.
In the UK we need a v.a.t. quarter.
2 months before Jan 1st and 1 month after Jan 1st.
That should get plenty of money in the tills.
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