BF/CM / Prime Days do not effect your ability to run deals. It’s a glitch or it’s purposeful but it’s been like that forever. You’re not supposed to be able to but you can…
We have run deals many times before, RIGHT AFTER an event that just past AND before an event like just past.
It’s a classic technique to really drop your rank / raise your organic search for weeks at a time. Works like a charm.
Since all of our workstations for this SoA Account are located in another country than is yours (U.S. as opposed to Canada), I suspect that what our Seller Community is reportedly experiencing is yet another example of new-paradigm rollouts progressing through the AWS ‘server blocks’ which are targeted towards supporting this or that geographical region in the North American Marketplace.
As all of us can here in the SAS can likely attest, that’s a movie that our Seller Community has seen many a time before.
I’m not surprised the seller forums got spammed with posts about this, by default you don’t see the newest posts and this took a very long time to fix a very serious problem.
Most people don’t do that though. It’s why it’s so important to have default settings on websites and devices be something good, because the majority of people don’t change them.