Xbox 360 for $100
November 27, 2006 by John in Consumer, Video Games
Yeah, I too, tried to get an Xbox 360 for $100 on Thanksgiving day. I had the page queued up, hit reload at 11:00AM PST, and it took several minutes for the page reload. The results were predictable:
Tried to get an Xbox 360 for 100 bucks:
“The effort seemed futile. Amazon was going to sell 1,000 Xbox 360 Core Systems for $100.00 via Amazon.com, starting at 2PM EST on Thanksgiving Day. Surely there was no way we’d get one - I was right.
“Eliza had pointed out that she wanted to try anyways and she had the page all loaded up to fire an order away the moment “the gates” were open. Sure enough, Amazon.com was brought to it’s knees during an onslaught that an Amazon spokesman described as “dramatically more traffic than we anticipated.”.
“‘Amazon sold out of Xbox 360 Core systems in 29 seconds. Not 30, no no - 29 seconds.’”