Amazon UK Glitch Sells Thousands of Products For a Penny

An anonymous reader writes For about an hour on Friday a few lucky Amazon UK shoppers were able to take advantage of a price glitch which discounted thousands of marketplace products to the price of 1p. An Amazon spokesman said: "We are aware that a number of Marketplace sellers listed incorrect prices for a short period of time as a result of the third party software they use to price their items on Amazon.co.uk. We responded quickly and were able to cancel the vast majority of orders placed on these affected items immediately and no costs or fees will be incurred by sellers for these cancelled orders. We are now reviewing the small number of orders that were processed and will be reaching out to any affected sellers directly."

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Re:Amazon is run by Nazis

[ledow]

Not if the price is obviously an error.

And not until both sides have consciously accepted the contract. Acknowledging receipt of your order request is NOT acceptance of the contract.

English law contains this, so I imagine American law and almost all first-world law systems are similar.