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Amazon Erases Orders To Cover Up Pricing Mistake
The Knife writes "Amazon secretly canceled orders for a large jazz CD set after realizing that it had mis-priced the item at $31 instead of its MSRP of $499. At first, inventory shortages caused the online merchant to string customers along for over a month after they placed their orders. But when Amazon realized that the box set was under-priced by $470, it simply erased all records of customers' order in their account history. No emails were sent to customers informing them of the price change or of the order cancellation. Probably because it violates Amazon's highly publicized price guarantee policy. A customer who called to complain and request the CD set at the $31 price was given a $20 discount off of his next Amazon order." A caveat: there is no external confirmation that Amazon did what is claimed here.
Wasn't there a record company during the dot-boom who went broke in about a week because they omitted the "required" flag on "enter credit card details"?
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Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
Why single out Senator Clinton. This is a common practice in Washington (and every state capital I might add). To carry this concept a little further, since most of the legislators are male and most lobbyists are also male, that would make the male legislators homosexual hookers (on a percentage basis), thus, in the minds of the people who seem to hate Hillary most, they would be more sinful than Hillary.
Yes, almost every politician takes money from lobbyists, but I never thoughr that I would hear a Presidential candidate openly defend their own selfish and corrupt practice of taking money from lobbyists.
Hillary openly said that she would not stop taking money from lobbyists becaue "lobbyists represent the American people". I have never heard a politician openly say such a thing, let alone publicly.
Everyone knows that lobyists DO NOT represent the American public, they only represent people with enough money to buy a politician. The people the lobbyists get their money from represent a fraction of Americans, thus, they do not represent Americans.
The fact they do not represent Americans is why the American public is so fed up with them. That is why lobbyist influence has become such a big issue in the Presidentia lelection- We are sick and tired of greedy special interests buying our politicians and running our lives the way they think we should live them.
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....