"Black Friday" Kindle 2 for $ 89 broke up on Amazon in a few seconds

This year, the well-known and expected sales period in regular and online stores turned out to be the most productive for online stores. Many Internet companies laid out attractive products on this day at an attractive price, with a significant discount, which led to an influx of buyers who wanted to save money. But the leader was Amazon, which announced ahead of time that the Kindle 2 e-reader would appear in the bins of this resource on Black Friday, at a price of $ 89. Let me remind you that the usual price for this device is $ 189, so you could save as much as $ 100. The sale was supposed to start at 9 am. And it began, and how!

Exactly at 9:00 this device became available for purchase, and already at 9:00:02 it disappeared. Why? Some customers think that Amazon simply deceived them by drawing on the company's website with the promise of a cheap e-reader, and deceiving everyone’s expectations. There are buyers who are going to even sue for such actions, such buyers really believe that the company was not going to sell Kindle 2 at such a low price.
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Other buyers, who think more logically, believe that a huge number of potential buyers from different countries, rushing to the Amazon site at 9:00, simply bought up the device in this couple of seconds. After all, it was not even announced how many cheap readers would be offered - maybe a few thousand, and maybe a couple of hundred. In this case, two seconds is even a lot. Of course, on the part of the company it is a little dishonest not to leave information about the exact number of available devices, but here there is no law that seems to be broken.

In general, we have one of the fastest and most feverish sales on Amazon in the history of this resource (if this is not so, please correct me). A few seconds - and a couple of thousand devices whatever happened. Of course, perhaps, the cunning Amazon put up not a couple of thousand, but a couple of dozens of such devices, on the cheap, but it would be strange to suspect such a large online store, or rather, the largest, in such frauds.

I wonder how long ten thousand fourths of iPhones, for example, priced at three hundred dollars, would be sold out? Probably, even the Amazon server would not withstand the influx of afflicted customers, and it would be the most unfortunate sale in the history ...

Via cnet