the same thing happens here in the u.s. a week or so ago, there was a robot with a great discount. i took a few minutes to decide whether or not to buy it, and it was already sold out - and that was before 12:10 am.
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Originally Posted by DMSmillie
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 |