Amazon Prime

What the Tech? Amazon Prime Day Problems

Many Amazon customers had trouble placing orders and shopping on day one of Amazon Prime Day. Here’s what’s happening: A customer goes to make a purchase and instead of getting a verification that the order was placed, they see this: a photo of a dog. The reason? Too many people shopping at the same time. Even Amazon and its servers…

What the Tech? Amazon Prime Day

If you’re one of the 100 million Amazon Prime members ready to shop, you may be priming yourself for the 5th annual Prime Shopping Day (this year it’s actually a 2-day event). Last year’s Prime Day was Amazon’s biggest shopping day in history as shoppers spent over $100 million and the company reportedly processed over 17 million transactions. This year…