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I will take a stab. Using these numbers: http://www.statista.com/statistics/197099/quarterly-revenue-of-amazoncom/ http://www.statista.com/statistics/197099/qua

• laluser 14y ago
  That's assuming that they're revenue is spread out evenly over every day and every minute. Which is not the case. Think Christmas, deals, weekends, time of the day, etc...
  • dagw 14y ago
    It also assumes that everybody who goes to buy something from Amazon while its down end up buying somewhere else as opposed to simply waiting until later that day
• axusgrad 14y ago
  That's less than I expected! Back at the height of their popularity, I remember hearing that AOL could lose a lot of money every second their servers weren't showing ads.
  • chaz 14y ago
    > That's less than I expected! That's still a huge amount of money ... $7mm an hour?