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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
I think Amazon will have a good supply, for at least two reasons.
First, because they are not a retail store, there's no point in having only a limited amount. In a retail store, even if you can't buy one of the cheap plasma TVs or whatever on black Friday, the fact that you're in the store makes it likely that you will buy *something* to offset the cost of the cheap items. But if you log onto Amazon and can't buy the K2, it's not like you are going to wander around the store looking for other things to buy.
2nd, Amazon doesn't make much money off of the Kindle; they make it off of the books...so the more kindles out there, the better Xmas is for Amazon.
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Perhaps they reserve more items for the US sale compared to elsewhere.
There's been a lot of anger here in the UK - they had a series of "Black Friday" style sales running on Amazon UK on Monday (possibly all week, I'm not sure), and many items appear to have been sold out within seconds (quite literally) of an item going live in the sale. My partner was interested in one particular item, and waited for when it was scheduled to go live, but when it did, decided it was still a bit too pricy to justify buying, but refreshed the page a few times out of interest, having read some of the complaints earlier in the day. Less than a minute later, it and the two other items that went live at the same time were listed as sold out. People were reporting that they'd get an item in their shopping basket as soon as it went on sale, but a few seconds later, when they tried to checkout, they'd get a message saying it was no longer available at the sale price, and offering them the option of buying at the normal price. Lots of angry people.
See
http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/847964-a...eft-frustrated.
- Donna