Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work. The add to cart still
shows up as just the text. I know it works for others because you can
watch the percentage of the deals gone rise as time goes by and
because the gold box forum at the bottom of the page would explode if
people were not able to get any of the deals on the page. Have no
idea what is going on at this point.
Thanks,
Chris
At 10:42 AM 10/10/2010, Robert C wrote:
This is where Firefox comes to the rescue. When you encounter
sites that seem to be terribly coded, go to the View menu and
select Page Style then select No Style. This strips out all that
crap and you can easily find the links you need.
Quote of the nanosecond. . .
I am opposed to millionaires.......but it would be dangerous to
offer me the position.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Tekell" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 10:37 PM
Subject: Amazon lightning deals inaccessible
Has anyone tried to buy one of Amazon's lightning deals lately? For
those that haven't encountered these, they are one hour specials
that Amazon runs every day and can be found by following the link
at the top of the page labelled 'Today's Deals'. They are below the
Gold Box deal of the day and above the personal Gold Box specials
of the day. I've taken advantage of some of these deals in the
past, but when I tried to buy a flash drive that was on sale a
couple of days ago, the add to cart link was nothing but text. I
tried going to the item's page and instead of the add to cart
button, there was just a link to go to the deals page. I tried
adding the item to my wish list and then adding to my cart. This
worked, but the deal price wasn't given on the checkout page.
I emailled Amazon, and they offered to give me a "one time
exception" to take advantage of the deal, if my order qualified. I
didn't like the vague wording on that, so didn't bother. They
seemed to miss my point, which was that without a working link or
button, blind users can't take advantage of any of the deals and
something needs to be done to change this. In the days since, I
have checked the deals page. I can add the Gold Box deal of the day
to my cart, and I can take advantage of my personal Gold box
specials, all without any difficulty and all listed on the same
page as the lightning deals. But the lightning deals still show the
item and all of its info and all of the teasers for upcoming
lightning deals. All of the links work just as usual except the one
for adding the item to the cart.
I thought the issue might be a Firefox problem, so tried using IE
8, and ran into the exact same issue, so that theory went out the
window. I am using the latest Firefox and IE 8 as previously
stated, I am using the latest WE including the recent mini update.
I use XP SP 3 and keep everything up to date. I don't know what the
deal is or when the change was made, I think the last time I jumped
on a lightning deal was early summer or maybe even late spring, so
it has been months. Anyone out there still able to add these items
to cart? If so, then it might still be an issue with my setup, if
not, Amazon needs to get on fixing this problem.
Regards,
Chris
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