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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.
It's Vitale dumbass, as in Dick Vitale.
If you going to talk sports on slashdot, you better know exactly what the hell you are talking about BAY-BEEEE!
Gone!
Honestly, I was about to post a huge rant on the logical flaws and implications the author of the summary made, ie: Amazon is evil and didn't guarantee me $31 CD sets, but then I realized that this was posted by kdawson. Everyone just stop reading the thread and don't bother commenting from here.
Uhm, tell that to the nation/state of California. That's the actual law here. If something is advertised *anywhere* by you or your company at a certain price and someone attempts to buy it you *MUST* sell it at that price. I'll bet that's one reason Amazon Corporate isn't based in Cali...
this looks shopped i can tell from teh pixels and from having seen quite a few shops in my time
Why do you think Amazon should swallow thousands of dollars worth of losses over a typo?
Why do you think Amazon should be allowed to pull a bait and switch, even if it's an unintentional one?
Wow, is the idea of screwing the corporations so tempting to you that any shred of morals is lost?
Wow, if you weren't so busy moralizing, you'd have noticed the part where I said if a consumer failed to do a price check before completing a transaction, it's their own damn fault. It's called due diligence.
I've noticed you like to argue. Shame you do it so ineptly.
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