Amazon Diwali Dhamaka sale: Buyers take to Twitter as sale turns out to be a damp squib

Amazon India’s Diwali Dhamaka sale kicked off earlier today. While a lot was expected after Flipkart’s Big Billion Day farce, turns out Amazon India is no different.

Since the sale kicked off this morning, buyers are complaining about the site crashing and coming across blank pages. While this is expected at rush hours, the lack of deals is what has frustrated buyers. Take the Philips shaver for example, which Amazon India claims is being offered at 25 percent discount. It is being sold at Rs 3,160 on Amazon India, but head over to Snapdeal and you will be able to buy it for 2,999.

This is just one example, and the lack of deals has truly frustrated buyers. Not surprisingly, many took to Twitter to vent it out, and here are some tweets embedded below.

I guess Amazon India , worst website ever visited and today experienced too . At least flipkart showed the deals…http://t.co/aC0wdxj6di

— LEE (@abhisekverma) October 10, 2014

 

Amazon India has been running these deals since the Big Billion Day, nothing new today, except the traffic they are getting.

— Chetan Bhawani (@chetanbhawani) October 10, 2014

 

Guys help me decide which is more of a Flopshow ! #DiwaliDhamakaweek#AmazonIndia or the #FlipkartFoolsDay ? *confused*

— Balaji (@twitslave90) October 10, 2014

 

#amazonindia sale fails as the network is pathetic and also no deals on mobile app..bad bad sale no donuts for you

— ATS (@dhinvira) October 10, 2014

 

Apparently there are 39 pages of deals on#Amazon #India website. No pages after first three would load up. #FailDhamakaWeek

— Omkar Deshpande (@Im_OmD) October 10, 2014

 

So the Blackmail of Brick and Mortar worked. Amazon India Diwali Dhamaka is a#DampSquib No attractive deals, pages not loading @amazon

— SankarK (@SMedia4) October 10, 2014

 

#Amazon #India presents #crapweek

— Omkar Deshpande (@Im_OmD) October 10, 2014

 

Amazon India is this what you call your#DiwaliDhamaka..???http://t.co/qpRUWpOOqB

— Meet Shah (@Meet_Nutec) October 10, 2014

 

Thanks to #AmazonIndia #diwalidhamakaweekmy dog has started hyper-salivating

— Prateek (@pratikortho) October 10, 2014

 

Amazon now has more deals for your dog, not you. #AmazonIndia #Amazon

— Ajay (@ajay_bdwj) October 10, 2014

 

Lightning deal of the hour- 70 % discount to Amazon India for my services to write an Apology letter.

— Sreyes Ravi (@sreyesravi) October 10, 2014

 

#amazonindia the store is open, customers standing outside the store, but not products at display. Thts calles #diwalidhamaka

— Sachin PURI (@sachinpuri85) October 10, 2014

 

#amazonindia showing no deal. seems to be bigger flop show that flipkart.

— Pavan Reddy (@PavanReddy1901) October 10, 2014

 

#AmazonIndia Did the Diwali crackers burst your Autoscaling framework?

— sumanth_myneni (@sumanth_myneni)October 10, 2014