Amazon's 1p sale!

Any orders that haven't been dispatched can be cancelled and the monies refunded. The ones that are in trouble are those that have already shipped.

I once bought a Canon P&S for £60 instead of £160. Didn't hold my breath but it never got cancelled or refunded. Wasn't from a third party seller either.
 
See Amazon could absorb that loss easily.

But it's not Amazon who are impacted, it's the small businesses who use Amazon for fulfillment. I hope Amazon make it right and if not that the greedy people who benefited return the items.
 
But it's not Amazon's fault either. Even though Amazon are fulfilling the orders, you (the seller) still have full control over pricing levels. Those sellers that use repricing software are taking a bit of a gamble by using a third party system unless there are any guarantees in place. In fact I'm surprised to see, on the software in question homepage, the statement:

"Risk free and safe in every way
Want to try repricing but are worried about testing on live listings and prices? No problem, RepricerExpress has built-in safeguards to make it absolutely risk-free."

I think once I'd deactivated my listings, the it'd be repricerexpress I'd be going after for recompense.
 
RichardtheSane said:
See Amazon could absorb that loss easily.

But it's not Amazon who are impacted, it's the small businesses who use Amazon for fulfillment. I hope Amazon make it right and if not that the greedy people who benefited return the items.
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There's getting a good bargain and then there's just taking advantage - people buying 95 board games or 59 mobile phones (as stated in the article) is just not cricket IMO.
 
Computer error it seem,but the guy must of taken his eye of the ball,as it was his competitive who were telling him about the mistake :(
 
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apparently this situation lasted for an hour Fri pm, BBC news carried the story over the weekend that some affected by having items sold as little as 1p saying that this loss, at what should be the busiest time of the year, was unsustaneable and might force them out of business
 
simonblue said:
Computer error it seem,but the guy must of taken his eye of the ball,as it was his competitive who were telling him about the mistake :(
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Not just one guy.

Many small businesses affected as it was a third party pricing tool that went tits up.
 
TopBanana said:
There's getting a good bargain and then there's just taking advantage - people buying 95 board games or 59 mobile phones (as stated in the article) is just not cricket IMO.
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100% agree.
 
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