Amazon says Prime Day was bigger than its biggest Black Friday

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by Sindy Cator on July 16, 2015 at 5:06 pm

Despite widespread disappointment, Amazon says Prime Day was bigger than its biggest Black Friday. According to Amazon, the made-up holiday was the largest device sales day the company has ever had with 398 items ordered every second in Prime-eligible countries – that’s 34.4 million products. Some of the biggest sellers on the day in the US were Amazon’s Fire TV sticks, the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy boxsets, televisions (unspecified which brands), Bose Headphones and ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ on Blu-ray. Outside the US, the big sellers were slightly less impressive products like diapers, Crocs and Monopoly. However, while Amazon…