Amazon Xbox Thanksgiving promo gone in minutes!
November 23rd, 2006 by Jeremy Toeman
As hit the whole geekier side of the Internet last week, Amazon.com had a promo for an $100 Xbox, available today at 11am PST. I had 3 windows, with up to 6 tabs each, open as of 10:58am. The site began timing out almost immediately, and so I refreshed the tabs as needed. By 11:05am the pages that did manage to load showed the deal was sold out. And I wasn’t the only one…
I wonder how many they had in the promo, and also wonder what % of dissappointed shoppers ended up buying something else. For example, as a consolation prize I was welcome to pick up the “Barbie in The 12 Dancing Princesses: Interactive Princess Genevieve “Let’s Dance” Doll” for only $25. What a bargain.
November 23rd, 2006 at 3:17 pm
yah…its a hoax I was there with 2 computers 2 browsers on each and still failed…..i dont think they gave them out at all.
November 23rd, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Kesh - at first I agreed with you, but when I checked their Movers and Shakers page, Xbox core (at the time of writing) jumped to #1 today. I know a little bit about the workings of their rankings, and this implies they did sell a chunk of units…
November 24th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Yep - I had 3 different browsers open (firefox/ie/opera) - and all timed out.. their front page was inaccessible too.. (tested from different computer)
-mark
December 1st, 2006 at 8:17 pm
[...] It’s probably not a huge surprise that Video Game Consoles ended up as #1 on the “12 Gizmos of Christmas” special. After all, we recently witnessed riots, fighting, scams, huge lines and even shootings to obtain Sony Playstation 3’s. It was a little less exciting for Nintendo Wii’s but no less important in the grand scheme of raw demand. Even a sale on Microsoft Xbox 360’s brought Amazon’s website to its knees and the Xboxes sold out in 5 minutes. [...]