Amazon crashes just minutes into Prime Day

Amazon Prime's extended Prime Day (really 36 hours), didn't get off to the start the online retail giant may have expected. According to several reports, the website either crashed or had trouble loading pages.
DownDetector.com reported over 24,000 problems just minutes into the sale. It noted that website problems accounted for 46% while log-ins affected 34% of those reporting, and check out had a 19% problem. The site said stated that problems started at 3:04 pm ET, four minutes into the sale.