Monday, November 22, 2010

Amazon Attempts to Bring Black Friday Discounts to the UK

Take That Amazon Black Friday
Black Friday has Become Black Monday on infuriated discovered Customers They Could not buy discounted Products in Amazon.co.uk 's latest sale promotion. 
Customers are complaining on the Amazon website and Twitter That Products Promoted in the website's "Black Friday" sale are selling out the articles within seconds, and the ties That Keeps freezing, Preventing Them from Completing Their purchases. 

Traditionally Black Friday occurs in the U.S. Following Thanksgiving, Enabling Millions of shoppers Thurs take advantage of massive price cuts Offered by retailers. Amazon has Transferred the idea to the UK, starting this morning by offering Take That's Progress and Susan Boyle's The Gift CDs for £ 1 (Both albums Usually retail at £ 8.93). 

"The demand for the albums was incredible," said Brian McBride, managing director of Amazon.co.uk ltd. "Customers were online and ready for the start of" Black Friday Deals Week ', snapping up the Thousands of albums were available at That just £ 1 in a matter of seconds. The good news Is that there are more than just 300 deals Still To Come ". 

The Discounts Take the form of "lightning deals" with a Limited Quantity of Each item being Offered at a discount for a short period of time. Once Quantity That has Been hmmmm or the Elapsed Time Limit, the deal ends. Amazon says it will offer more than just 300 deals DURING the five day period, Including 60% off Nintendo Wii CONSOLES, 60% off the Flip pocket-sized high-definition cameras, Sony TVs at half price and More Than 70% off pearl necklaces. 

HOWEVER, deals have Sold out with seconds According to Those Trying to buy items on the site. One angry customer described the promotion as a "big con" Another said "Black Friday Deals? Someone call the cops," while a third to said: "There are three of everything guys." 

A spokeswoman for Amazon said the promotions are genuine, with large numbers of Each product being available. "We had Thousands of the Take That and Susan Boyle Thurs sell CDs, They have just proved incredibly popular," she said. "It's not a case of just 10 or a 100 Each of thing being available."

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