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On: Amazon Erases Orders To Cover Up Pricing Mistake

I found the jazz set on Slickdeals and ordered it for $30.98. A day or two later, Amazon sent me an email informing me my order had been cancelled (see below). While I think it's lousy of Amazon to do this, at least they notified me. Interestingly, I've had this happen three times in the last week with things I found on Slickdeals: Once by Dell, once by Best Buy and once by Amazon. All three were claimed to be "pricing errors." It seems like one of those cases where the company is relying on the fact that people are just going to accept the cancellation and walk away rather than fight it.

Greetings from Amazon.com. We regret to inform you that an error caused the following item(s) to be displayed at an incorrect price: Jazz in Paris In accordance with our posted policies on pricing, we are unable to offer this item for the incorrectly posted price. Therefore, we have cancelled your order for this item. At any given time, despite our best efforts, a small number of the millions of items on our site may be mispriced. We do, however, verify prices as part of our shipping procedures. If we discover that an item's correct price is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation. This policy is posted in the Help section and is accessible through numerous other areas of our web site. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We value your business and hope that you will give us a chance to serve you again in the future. Sincerely, Customer Service Department Amazon.com Please note: this e-mail was sent from a notification-only address that cannot accept incoming e-mail. Please do not reply to this message.