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Problem:Amazon's website experienced some issues on Monday as Prime Day kicked off in the United States. Amazon 
  
 Looks like Amazon wasn't primed for Prime Day this year. 
  
 Customers reported experiencing issues with the retailer's website at the same time Prime Day deals were scheduled to begin in the United States, on Monday at 3 p.m. ET, with the site appearing to be down and responding with a 404 error. 
  
 Some links on the main page advertising Prime Day deals went nowhere but back to the page. Pages within Amazon's mobile app were also affected, showing an error message with a photo of a dog. 
  
 Individual product pages didn't appear to be affected and were still functional, though customers reported issues with adding items to their carts. Some customers also said that their shopping carts would completely empty when they were adding or removing items from it. 
  
 Customers reacted to the site issues with anger and confusion, with some even going as far as to threaten to cancel their Prime memberships or shop elsewhere. Many on social media posted pictures of the error pages with the dogs. 
  
 "Some customers are having difficulty shopping, and we're working to resolve this issue quickly," Amazon said in a statement at 4:59 p.m. ET. 
  
 "Many are shopping successfully — in the first hour of Prime Day in the U.S., customers have ordered more items compared to the first hour last year," the statement continued. "There are hundreds of thousands of deals to come and more than 34 hours to shop Prime Day." 
  
 Prime Day is expected to be one of the biggest sales days of the year for Amazon. One Click Retail estimated that Amazon sells about $1 million a minute during peak time on Prime Day, based on last year's data. The issues this year could easily mean millions in lost sales, One Click Retail's founder, Spencer Millerberg told Business Insider at the Digital Food and Beverage Conference in Chicago. 
  
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 It’s not just you. Amazon Prime Day started 15 minutes ago, and so far, it’s not going well for Amazon. The landing page for Prime Day does not work. When most links are clicked, visitors are sent to an error page or to a landing page that sends readers back to the main landing page. 
  
 Direct links to the product pages, either from outside links or the single product placement on the landing page, seem to work fine. I just bought this tent two weeks ago for $120. Some users are reporting errors when completing a purchase, too. 
  
 This is a huge blow to Amazon and its faux holiday Prime Day. The retailer has been pushing this event for weeks and there are some great deals to be had. It’s not a good look for the world’s largest retailer even though the retailer saw glitches last year, too. 
  
 Other retailers jumped on Amazon’s bandwagon and are running big sales around Prime Day. As of this post’s publication, both Walmart and Target are not suffering site outages and probably love Amazon’s outage. 
  
 Also, this. 
  
 Diane Greene is the only person celebrating Amazon Prime Day so far. — megan quinn (@msquinn) July 16, 2018 
  
 3:30pm EDT: It’s 30 minutes past the launch of Prime Day and the landing page and deal navigation page is still down. ||||| Screenshot by Joan Solsman/CNET 
  
 All eyes in retail are on Amazon this Monday, and not just for good reasons. 
  
 The world's largest e-commerce company kicked off its annual Prime Day sale today with a series of glitches that plagued its site and mobile app for over an hour in the US, based on visits from CNET staff and a host of reports on social media. Outage reports spiked around noon PT, according to DownDetector.com, just as Amazon Prime Day officially started. Amazon.com in the US appeared to be hit the hardest. Lesser issues were reported in parts of Canada, Mexico and Europe. 
  
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 As of 1 p.m. PT, a full hour into the sale, there appeared to be a handful of errors on the site. The homepage was generally available, but errors were coming up at checkout, items in shopping carts were disappearing, mobile alerts were delayed, products searches were sometimes offering no results, and some shoppers were caught in a "Shop All Deals" loop. Soon after, it appeared the site was beginning to recover, with the main Prime Day homepage becoming available. 
  
 Roughly two hours after the outage began, Amazon acknowledged the ongoing problems in short statement: "Some customers are having difficulty shopping, and we're working to resolve this issue quickly." It added that US customers ordered more items in the first hour of Prime Day than last year, despite the outages. Amazon didn't offer an explanation for what was causing the issues. 
  
 Monday's problems weren't the first time that Amazon experienced a notable website error during Prime Day. In 2016, a computer glitch prevented people from checking out their purchases online in the early hours of the sale. 
  
 When asked about the site running properly during the increased demand, Jamil Ghani, vice president of Prime international, earlier this month told CNET: "We feel prepared for what's to come." 
  
 con: @amazon prime day site down 
  
 pro: doggo pictures pic.twitter.com/szN0h4JPOa — elizabeth wozobski (@EWozobski) July 16, 2018 
  
 The problems could be due to an early rush of web traffic, though for now that's uncertain. 
  
 Amazon is used to surges of consumer traffic following over 20 years operating its website during the height of holiday shopping. The company is also a leader in operating server farms and cloud computing, thanks to its highly lucrative Amazon Web Services business. AWS runs Amazon's sites and appeared to be working normally Monday, according to its online status page. 
  
 However, Prime Day offers significant challenges for even Amazon, since the sale is consolidated to a short period of time -- not a whole shopping season -- kicks off at a set period across the globe and is focused on just one retailer. Amazon also added four new countries to Prime Day this year: Australia, Singapore, Netherlands and Luxembourg. 
  
 That scenario invites a big wave of shoppers to arrive at Amazon right at the beginning of the sale, which could temporarily overwhelm its capacity. Additionally, Prime Day offers its own set of over 1 million deals globally and a customized homepage, adding to the complexity of operating the sale. 
  
 "We've seen this sort of thing happen on Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the past with other retailers," said eMarketer retail analyst Andrew Lipsman. "In many ways, it's a double edged sword. On the one hand, you don't want to erode consumer trust by having an outage. On the other side, it's often a reflection of higher-than-expected demand." 
  
 He added that consumer shopping tends to recover if an outage is fixed fairly quickly. 
  
 amazon down on prime day heellpp #AmazonPrimeDay pic.twitter.com/IQRpr72iDw — Lisa Scherzer (@lisascherzer) July 16, 2018 
  
 My @amazon Prime Day experience. Multiple refreshes and still the same. Is @awscloud down too? pic.twitter.com/MMRCglgGK1 — Mike Baranski (@mikebaranski) July 16, 2018 
  
 Because Prime Day is going on for 36 hours this year -- up from 30 hours last year -- Amazon has an opportunity to come back from the weak start. But, the problems may make it harder for the company to break its single-day sales record, which it managed to do for the past two Prime Day sales. 
  
 Amazon last year said Prime Day sales grew by 60 percent from the year earlier and that more new members joined Prime than on any other day in Amazon history. Overall, Prime Day raked in an estimated $2.5 billion to $2.9 billion in global sales, including sales from third-party vendors, financial firm Cowen said last year. 
  
 First published at 12:19 p.m. PT. 
  
 Updated at 2:21 p.m. PT: Adds more background throughout and updates the site's performance, as well as an official statement from Amazon. 
  
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Solution:
According to Business Insider, CNET, TechCrunch, and a bunch of irritated would-be customers posting about it on Twitter, Amazon was having serious technical difficulties as its much-anticipated Prime Day started Monday. Outage reports spiked around 3pm Eastern, just as the 36-hour sale was starting, but the site appeared to go up and down; some users got error reports or were not able to navigate past the Prime Day landing page while others apparently had no issues or were able to find workarounds. "I saved a bunch of money today because the Amazon site is down," posted one Twitter user. One workaround appears to be using the URL smile.amazon.com rather than amazon.com.