MarkO

Why's it different to normal trading? It's perfectly possible for a company to advertise a price in a newspaper, for example, getting peoples' interest in the product only to claim that the item was out of stock, and that once new stock was in the price would revert to the 'normal' non-discount price.

It happens all the time - and in fact Argos was on Watchdog for doing precisely that with a digital camera over Christmas. People went into the store to order the camera at the amazing price, but it wasn't available anywhere in the country. By the time stocks arrived, the price had gone up.

I think you'll find that any web company doing this intentionally and on a regular basis would soon go out of business - simply because word spreads like wildfire on the 'net about this sort of thing (for an example, search the archives for 'Anders' and 'Power Engineering' ).

Oh, and Badger - that's the single most stupid and childish post I think I've read on SN for quite some time. Get a grip, FFS!

[Edited by MarkO - 19/03/2003 16:05:25]

Old_Fart

How can anyone get upset by Amazon not delivering? It's funny to order them but honestly they were so obviously miss-priced people must have expected nothing to come of it.
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Badger Stuffer

Marco.....Take a chill pill mate. Moving to Scotland was supposed to relieve your stress. Maybe you should move back south as you are clearly a bit touchy.

MarkO

ROFL!! The man who's just posted "deleted" tells me to take a chill pill!!!

[Edited by Diablo - 19/03/2003 16:26:35]

Badger Stuffer

MarkO..........Do you think that I ment that everyone should follow this statement?

Do you think they would miss a max of 10,000 customers from their worldwide operation.

It was posted in jest, you just missed the sentiment.

MarkO

If you meant it as a joke, then why not add some smilies? They way you wrote it just came across as agressive...

Whatever.

Badger Stuffer

I obviously missed the smiles.

Here you go......to balance the score.



Now get out on the mountain bike.

MarkO

Tell you what, Diablo, your recent action makes Badger's post look positively grown up. You should get out more. <sigh>

MarkO

Hmm. Talking of MTBs, I might nip out to Glentress for an hour this evening.

Badger Stuffer

What action was that?....I'll get him to do it again..

The_Gza

Boo! No fair!

MarkO

You could always nip over and join me!

Diablo

Guideines mate.

so don't be a smart.....

pslewis

Mine has just arrived at the reduced price!! whoooopie!!! maybe I got it because I ordered only one and a day before it became widely known??!!

RESULT!!!

Just plugging it in to charge now!!

Pete

-=Buzz=-

JUST ARRIVED at 11:32 PM?

Get lost, not even Parcel Force are THAT late!

pslewis

I've just got in from work - theres a war going on you know????

Pete

Dunk

iTrader: (1)

Just rec'd this ............

Dear Customer

Greetings from Amazon.co.uk.

We are writing to inform you that the price of the following item was
incorrect at the time of placing your order, and we hope that we can
clear up any misunderstanding:

"HP iPAQ H1910 Pocket PC"

Despite our best efforts, with the millions of items available on our
Web site, pricing errors can occasionally occur.

In accordance with our Conditions of Web Site Use and our Pricing and
Availability Policy, please know that we will be cancelling all affected
orders. If you still wish to purchase this item, please place a new order
online which will be charged at the correct price.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008W5UT/

Please note that you have not been charged for this item.

Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience caused by this
error, and rest assured that we will continue to make every effort to
maintain the accuracy of all prices on our site.

We hope you will find this an acceptable solution and look forward to
serving you again in the future.

Sincerely,

Customer Service Department
Amazon.co.uk

chiark

Yup - me 2. Twice.

Badger Stuffer

I replied with:

I forgot to add that I will be there getting a new sofa......

chiark

Someone has actually started an on-line petition for this... Sad, very sad...

Badger Stuffer

It would have been nice to get one at that price but I would have sold it as I have no use for one or how to use one....