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by AH4oFVbPT4f8 2905 days ago
Better today than Monday.

Using numbers from 2013, Amazon makes $2000 per second, down for 30 minutes = 3.6M

Edited: per hour to per second

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That's only true if people bounced of a broken homepage completely cancel their purchase, instead of waiting 10 minutes.

Most stores close overnight. They wouldn't double revenue if they opened overnight.

Per hour? Do you mean per second?
Good catch, you're correct it's per second not per hour.