Amazon Wank
So it seems that before Christmas Amazon had a DVD offer on boxsets - buy one get one free. Except they made a bit of a mistake and the lowest item was actually taken off twice. This resulted in, if you had two items of the same price, free DVDs.

As will happen people took advantage of this and people discussed whether that was ethical.

Skip forward to December 28th, and Amazon finally realises their error. All customers affected are asked to either return the boxsets unopened, or their credit cards will be charged the total price.

Aaaaand wank results People ask whether it's legal. Some people ring Amazon to complain. And some people sit proclaiming that it's all perfectly fine and serves folk right for taking advantage of it.

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	oar 2007-02-16 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	No, that's not really the case, because that's when you get people switching price tags on things and going, "That $15 dollar bottle of vitamins was totally labeled for $.50 when I found it! ZOMG FALSE ADVERTISING YOU MUST SELL IT TO ME AT THAT PROCE!" And we were always like "yeah . . . nice try, but no." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

judyhazeleyes
2007-02-16 07:36 pm UTC (link)

*nodnod* One clothing store I worked at had sale tickets that basically slid overtop of the regular tags, so it was incredibly easy to take them off and slide them onto a non-sale item. We were basically told to use our common sense - if everything was mistagged, honour it. If this one thing magically wound up mistagged when nothing else did, give 'em the nice try but no.

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	(Anonymous) 2007-02-16 10:29 pm UTC (link)
	We used to have people do that too, putting dog toys in the sale and then making a fuss when we said those toys weren't sale items so no, they couldn't have sale price. But if we legitimately had something marked then we had to sell it at the price it was on the shelf. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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