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Amazing how long it's been down for, I would figure this to be something that they'd work to resolve nearly immediately.

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If there is ever a post-mortem for this outage, I really hope it gets linked here. I'm interested to see what it could have been.

yeah, its being worked on as we speak.

"he strongest day of holiday sales for Amazon was December 10th, on which customers ordered 62.5 items pers second for a total of 5.4 million items. On its peak shipping day, the retailer shipped products internationally to more than 200 countries, moving more than 3.9 million shipments." from: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=16762

- although its from the same spam article that said they sold 17 wiis a second (when they were in stock) in 2007 ...

I would say every 10 minutes cost ...

78mm for a quarter in 07, (4 months = 120 day) 78mm/120 = 650k/day = 27k/hour = $450/sec ... they are losing big would love to hear the story behind it.

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