Amazon.com is down

Amazon is down this afternoon. Amazon is Amaz-off,  The company has posted a notice on seller’s pages, but no public statement has been made about when they expect to be back up.

Shopping carts that have been loaded for months are empty, and some users can’t get the site to load. The inventory is not available.

Amazon has posted the following on seller’s home pages, “We are experiencing an issue that is impacting customers’ ability to view items and place orders on the Amazon website. This is also impacting how items display in Manage Inventory within your seller account.”

Twitter has the following, “Amazon is down. Retreat to your bunkers. Arm yourselves. Remember that cannibalism is a good way to prevent potential zombies.”

“Why is everyone so upset that Amazon is down? Things break, people. Go into a bookstore for a change. But please stop complaining about it!”

TechCrunch notes, “For the past couple of hours the service has been switching back and forth between being totally down and being up, but showing no products. Twitter is abuzz about this — though there’s no word from Amazon on Twitter yet about the downtime. Amazon Web Services, meanwhile, all seem to be a go, according to their dashboard. The mobile apps on the iPhone, iPad and Android devices are sort of working, but it doesn’t appear you can go to actual product pages.