Unfortunately this happened in US, while in EU the price was correct
Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
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Re: Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
> No, I don't. Buying something for the listed price is perfectly ethical. Till you don't know the price listed was an error on their part, but now you know so it's unethical.
When dealing with a retail establishment (as opposed to a private sale), they should have controls in place to correct such mistakes before the sale is finalized. The key point here is that the error passed through enough people/systems acting as representatives of the seller that I can consider the organization as a whole to approve of the sale. If a cashier accidentally gives me a $10 instead of a $1, that’s unethi…
>they should have controls in place to correct such mistakes before the sale is finalized.
If they start bricking devices remotely (to protect against these pricing errors), would you support it?
Re: Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
#193I got in on this! I got a Sony A7R II and a 24-70 2.8 II I'd always wanted but could never justify the purchase of. ($~3k value for $200) A few observations: - Despite the extraordinary deal we got, my friends (who also made a purchase) and I all have our joy offset by a feeling of regret that we didn't order more. Greed! - Despite the fact that I couldn't justify the purchase before I owned them, I now definitely do…
Grats on the lucky score! > A lot of people saying the orders are going to be cancelled -- seeing as I currently have both body and lens in possession, I find that unlikely. Gotta agree that it's unlikely for these orders to be cancelled. Seems like Amazon.com's got a lot of cash (without checking, but I assume?), so they can probably afford it. Instead, the smart move would seem to be to play this up hard -- perhaps…
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Re: Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
#194Sounds to me like someone at Amazon is good at marketing. Let a few things go for an insane deal, knowing it will hit the front page of every blog. Then reap the rush of next years prime day with people scouring the site for pricing "errors". Pretty cheap and effective marketing. Kind of like a raffle but without having to get all the lawyers involved to make sure you comply with raffle laws.
Astute assessment.
Re: Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nah, the blowback they'd get from not honoring the purchasing would be terrible. More generally, Amazon are one of the few companies who understand that short term losses can lead to long-term goodwill and profit. So anyway, my prediction is that they will do nothing about your purchase.
Eh, no one is going to stop using Amazon if Amazon didn't honor 2k camera for $94.
Eh, no one is going to stop using Amazon if Amazon didn't honor 2k camera for $94.
Probably, but people might be disinclined to pay attention to prime day next year. It's definitely lost a lot of its luster now that Amazon mostly hawks their own cheap crap that nobody's that interested in.
Me? I could see this easily being an accident that someone decided to let ride. Maybe they cancel a few orders, but I doubt they'd cancel most or all of them.
Re: Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
#196Re: Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
#197> Others also reported that they successfully price matched gear at retailers such as Best Buy and Walmart. Wow, this is incredible if true. Not just as a sign of how much these traditional retailers will stick to their promises, but also how the ostensible safeguards of brick-and-mortar/human-touch can still be subverted by algorithmic error. I've never worked at retail but if I saw such a drastic reduction I'd call…
I'm not sure how far and wide the show Nathan For You reaches, but there's a fantastic episode where he proposes a local electronics store mark TVs down to $1 in order to buy up new inventory from Best Buy for his own store using their price match policy. Rather than trying to explain it poorly, I highly recommend everyone watch this clip from the show: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/i6q9t5/nathan-for-you-the-pric...
Never seen the show before, but enjoyed the clip - thank you. Very curious how it turned out.
Re: Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
#198I got in on this! I got a Sony A7R II and a 24-70 2.8 II I'd always wanted but could never justify the purchase of. ($~3k value for $200) A few observations: - Despite the extraordinary deal we got, my friends (who also made a purchase) and I all have our joy offset by a feeling of regret that we didn't order more. Greed! - Despite the fact that I couldn't justify the purchase before I owned them, I now definitely do…
>- A lot of people saying the orders are going to be cancelled -- seeing as I currently have both body and lens in possession, I find that unlikely. Just as a counterview; I've ordered other types of equipment on prime day that had pricing errors and I was later informed Amazon would not fullfill the order and got a 20$ gift code.
I've had the same situation and reward, but just on a normal non prime day.
Re: Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
#199Sounds to me like someone at Amazon is good at marketing. Let a few things go for an insane deal, knowing it will hit the front page of every blog. Then reap the rush of next years prime day with people scouring the site for pricing "errors". Pretty cheap and effective marketing. Kind of like a raffle but without having to get all the lawyers involved to make sure you comply with raffle laws.
It's most likely a mistake this year. Used to work for an online retailer. With my experience, at any moment there's always several items with really terrible pricing mistakes that we probably have to honor.
Happen a few years ago at our local Walmart, a solar kit (panel, battery and invertor) for $999.99 was priced at $99.99 - even the cash registers showed that price. I found out about them when one of the guys at work bought two of them. By the time I arrive at the store later that day all the kits were gone and the price was corrected on the store's computer too.