Dam. Wish I had noticed! Been on the hunt for a 70-300
The Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS II USM was worth every penny. I've had it for 10 years now and it is still wonderful.
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#12IANAL. Any U.S.-based lawyers out here?
I believe a listed price is an "invitation to treat" which means a retailer can charge whatever they like regardless of listed price (whether in a physical or online store), but at what point can't an online retailer cancel/back-out of a transaction? Let's say the merchant and buyer are both California-based for simplicity. Would it be legally similar to "theft by discovery" (e.g., taking money falling out from an overturned armored truck) for accepting goods sold at an excessive, erroneous discount? Or would it require proving intent on part of the buyer that the price was a serious mistake they deliberately acted in bad-faith to exploit?
Let's say the (over-simplified) phases of a transaction are:
1. Agreed - Buyer clicks "Buy".
2. Paid - Payment is posted.
3. Shipped out - The product leaves the custody of the merchant.
4. Received - Customer receives the product.
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#13My favorite ecommerce glitch was a guitar center coupon for $50 off being usable an unlimited number of times. I didn't push my luck and only applied it a few times. Surprisingly they honored it and I got a bunch of miscellaneous guitar accessories for free.
Back in the 1998 there was one website that let you enter negative values into the quantities to zero out the cost of other items. I notified them quickly and they let my order though as a way of saying 'thanks'.
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#14Maybe an intentional amazon move to take some losses but destroy B&H’s hold on high end photography
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#15I like the comment suggesting articles like that being banned. That lens has been one of my dreams for years now for birding. Though 800mm is kinda ridiculous and probably impossible to hand hold. I did nearly get lucky like this some years back when Walmart $100 gift cards were on sale for $10. All my orders were cancelled. It seems like several of these Amazon orders have been delivered.
>>Though 800mm is kinda ridiculous and probably impossible to hand hold If you have a bit of DIY spirit - You can get a decent 4" Newtonian telescope, porro prism and an intermediate lens and adapter to play around with and see if you like it for much cheaper - roughly $1200 Bonus: For $45 you can get a solar filter and take snazzy photos of partial eclipses.
Yes! I looked into some mirror lens options too trying to get the price down more. It turns out that doing a zoom/crop on the computer afterwards gives me the same or better results apparently. I haven't thought about a telescope though that would be sweet for pictures of nests.
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#16Wow, and I thought I had it good with the HP fire sale years back.
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#17This is great for Amazon publicity wise.
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#18Dam. Wish I had noticed! Been on the hunt for a 70-300
The Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS II USM was worth every penny. I've had it for 10 years now and it is still wonderful.
If your pictures are the sunny outdoors and not indoors, a long slow lens is almost certainly a better value than the typical 75-200 2.8.
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#19Amazon would be within their rights to refuse to honor such purchases. I also don't think it's ethical to take advantage of such mistakes. What if it was you who accidentally listed your house for $60,000 rather than $600,000? What if you accidentally included an extra 0 on the check you wrote?
> What if you accidentally included an extra 0 on the check you wrote?
Regarding this particular example, I would hope the bank and/or other party would read the text and notice the discrepancy...
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#20I remember something similar happened at Best Buy 15 years ago with a high end nvidia card. I bought one, but Best Buy obviously chose not to fulfill on the glitch. I wasn't surprised or disappointed. I was surprised at how many people felt entitled to it, though. The number of calls to boycott Best Buy over it seemed insane.
I wonder how many people will feel entitled to Amazon honoring this glitch.