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PopeSock

I ordered a couple, and the orders are now gone. They've not been cancelled, they've just been deleted from the system. So apart from the Amazon emails, there's no evidence of them having existed. Honestly, I didn't expect to get this. But just deleting them like that seems odd.

lalamb

PopeSock wrote: »

I ordered a couple, and the orders are now gone. They've not been cancelled, they've just been deleted from the system. So apart from the Amazon emails, there's no evidence of them having existed. Honestly, I didn't expect to get this. But just deleting them like that seems odd.

Same thing here and no email from them saying they cancelled it

I didn't expect to get it though but it was worth a try

cookie_monster

My order has disappeared as well.


oh well, didn't think it would go through.

lalamb

When items in shops are sometimes mispriced, they honour it don't they, so why not on the internet?

PopeSock

lalamb wrote: »

When items in shops are sometimes mispriced, they honour it don't they, so why not on the internet?

My cancellation email turned up after all. As to the above, I'd guess because in a store you generally only have one person asking about it. With an online misprice, with HotUKDeals and MSE in operation, everyone goes for it. I guess the question you'd really have to ask, would be why *would* they honour it?

I used to work in an electronics store, and when something had a misprice, not where someone put something on the wrong shelf, but where it was the actual product with an incorrect price, the store had two choices. One, honour the price, or two, withdraw the stock from sale for 24 hours. They genrally did the former, because they'd only lose a bit of cash. Unless it was a major difference, in which case they did the latter, which happened rarely.

Amazon, on the other hand, would have made a huge loss if they'd sold the products at this price. I'm guessing there were about a hundred orders for this at least. And they wouldn't just be selling at cost, but actually selling below cost. Pulling a figure out my backside - that they paid about fifty quid for each of these speaker items - they'd be making a loss of five thousand quid or so. So it's pretty obvious why they wouldn't honour it.