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Title: Sporadic Dog Pages... Anyone?
Post by: BelindaWhite on April 14, 2020, 08:05:25 PM

Like my life wasn't stressed out enough before this.

While checking my ranks this morning, I found that certain books would show dog pages when I clicked on them from the KDP dashboard. Then, if I clicked again, the product page would show up.

Please tell me that Amazon isn't getting ready to do something crazy! Talk me down, people! Is this happening to anyone else?

Title: Re: Sporadic Dog Pages... Anyone?
Post by: TimothyEllis on April 14, 2020, 08:22:55 PM

I just clicked all your books out of order, and it happened once. Click again a few seconds later, and it was fine.

I just tried 8 of mine and they were all fine.

I don't know, but it could be a bandwidth issue, with people ordering off Amazon who never did before, and the site only just coping with the load.

Title: Re: Sporadic Dog Pages... Anyone?
Post by: BelindaWhite on April 14, 2020, 09:12:47 PM

Thanks for checking, Timothy! That's what I was seeing too. Totally sporadic and fixed the next time I clicked.

Hopefully it's just a by-product of Amazon's overload right now.

Title: Re: Sporadic Dog Pages... Anyone?
Post by: She-la-te-da on April 24, 2020, 06:32:56 PM

I'm pretty sure Amazon is always getting ready to do something crazy, or just coping with glitches in general. Reporting has been weird, and I noticed that sales from last month and this one showed up on the month to date, but were not on the sales graph. Yesterday, they showed up on the graph. I don't really worry about anything on the graph, as it's not meant to be a true showing of anything (or not that I've ever noticed, in more than ten years), but it was strange.