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Re:Amazon was down by noname123 on Monday August 19, 2013 @03:31PM (#6239200)
If one looks at the intra-day chart of AMZN, you could see the market adjust the pricing of the stock relative to the revenue lost every second due to site down.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=amzn&ei=JWwSUuCkE8Lp0QGC5QE... compare to SPY, the overall market trend.

Re:Amazon was down by InclinedPlane on Monday August 19, 2013 @05:16PM (#6239911)
The interesting thing is that amazon doesn't typically lose orders when the site goes down for a short period, it often just causes people to delay their orders a little.