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Posted by earthworm, 12:57, 19th March 2003:
 
Did anyone make any use of amazon.co.uk's SALE OF THE CENTURY?
Posted by arsepuppy, 12:59, 19th March 2003:
 
ha ha! I noticed that. Sadly, so have they, it's down now.
Posted by jlittle, 12:59, 19th March 2003:
 
No
Posted by Victor Menendez, 13:06, 19th March 2003:
 
With Bob Barker?
Posted by cal, 13:06, 19th March 2003:
 
yeah - i ordered the £7 one. didn't make the £23 one in time :(
Posted by earthworm, 13:08, 19th March 2003:
 
I wonder if they are going to honour the orders...
Posted by cal, 13:22, 19th March 2003:
 
they don't have to - it's in the t&c's
Posted by Grim..., 13:25, 19th March 2003:
 
What is this about?
Posted by cal, 13:30, 19th March 2003:
 
amazon.co.uk were offering campaq ipaq's for £7

millions of people ordered them amazon crashed, then shut down
Posted by Victor Menendez, 13:31, 19th March 2003:
 
hehe
Posted by Sul, 13:35, 19th March 2003:
 
hehehe. Sainsburys To You done something like that and some guy ordered 200 chickens then tried to complain when they wouldnt honour the rediculously low price.
Posted by beargod, 14:03, 19th March 2003:
 
Sometimes they legally do have to honor such low prices, if it is marked up as that price, I think Internet companies don't have such a big problem
Posted by earthworm, 16:41, 19th March 2003:
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2864...
Posted by cal, 16:51, 19th March 2003:
 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/...

:(
Posted by plindoe, 08:42, 20th March 2003:
 
Tesco did one a while back on the x files series 'whatever'. My mate got the full series for £19 or there abouts, they honoured all those who got it at the STUPID low price, subsequently it went back to £60 or £70 whatever it was supposed to be
Posted by Grim..., 13:33, 20th March 2003:
 
I think some companies use it as a maketing ploy.

Sell off 4 X-Boxes at £5 each, then set the price back to what it should be.

Issue an apology and a press release, honour the 4 sales, and laugh at the amount of publicity your site gained while every Blog in the world goes http://www.yeeha.com is selling X-Boxes for £5!
Posted by plindoe, 13:47, 20th March 2003:
 
THEY MUST HAVE GONE BUST SELLING THEM AT THAT PRICE, THE LINK DOESNT WORK GRIM... :)
Posted by reitsma, 23:34, 20th March 2003:
 
yeah, in the 'real world', that sort of bait & switch technique gets absolutely roasted by the consumer comission authorities...

it's hard to say how they should do that on the internet.