Ash K. Gilpin

Amazon.com said that it sold 1,000 Xbox 360 game consoles in 29 seconds as part of a promotion that slashed two-thirds off the regular retail price.  It also broke last year’s single-day record of more than 4 million orders placed on December 11th.

It has also been reported that the demand for the Microsoft Corp. machines were so high that Amazon.com’s site bogged down briefly on Thanksgiving Day, generating bitter complaints from shoppers and forcing the retailer to change procedures for subsequent promotions.

Amazon.com also sold the most expensive digital music player to date, for $19,999.

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