Amazon sells out with "Prime Day"

Jacob Nierenberg • Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Amazon sells out with "Prime Day"</h1>
                <h2><p>Amazon’s Prime Day sales were hyped as having “more deals than Black Friday,” but for many shoppers, Prime Day proved frustrating. Many of Amazon’s so-called “Lightning Deals” — which promised savings on everything from electronics to clothing to office supplies — vanished like, well, a bolt from the blue. Disgruntled</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/jacob-nierenberg-crosscut-com/">Jacob Nierenberg</a></p> 
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            <p>Amazon’s Prime Day sales were hyped as having “more deals than Black Friday,” but for many shoppers, Prime Day proved frustrating. Many of Amazon’s so-called “Lightning Deals” — which promised savings on everything from electronics to clothing to office supplies — vanished like, well, a bolt from the blue. Disgruntled customers took to Twitter with their outrage; personal favorites include “When I die I want whoever’s responsible for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmazonPrimeDay?src=hash&ref=avalancheghost.one">#AmazonPrimeDay</a> to lower me into my grave so they can let me down one last time” and “So basically, I can have disappointment shipped for free. <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PrimeDay?src=hash&ref=avalancheghost.one">#PrimeDay</a></strong>”. Revel in such misery to your heart’s content <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23PrimeDay&src=tyah&ref=avalancheghost.one">here</a>.</p>
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Amazon’s Prime Day sales were hyped as having “more deals than Black Friday,” but for many shoppers, Prime Day proved frustrating. Many of Amazon’s so-called “Lightning Deals” — which promised savings on everything from electronics to clothing to office supplies — vanished like, well, a bolt from the blue. Disgruntled customers took to Twitter with their outrage; personal favorites include “When I die I want whoever’s responsible for #AmazonPrimeDay to lower me into my grave so they can let me down one last time” and “So basically, I can have disappointment shipped for free. #PrimeDay”. Revel in such misery to your heart’s content here.

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By Jacob Nierenberg

Jacob Nierenberg is an editorial intern at Crosscut. He has lived in Washington for nearly all of his life, and still proudly identifies with the Pacific Northwest despite his relocation to Stanford U