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Honestly amazon would be better off honoring it. It’s a drop in the bucket and good publicity for prime.
by empath75 7y ago
Honestly amazon would be better off honoring it. It’s a drop in the bucket and good publicity for prime.
- WalterBright 7y agoYes, Amazon would be. That doesn't make what the customer did ethical.
- Kye 7y agoWhat's unethical about buying something for the listed price? edit: rephrased for clarity
- mc32 7y agoWhat if you accidentally paid extra to a bank, supermarket, paying back your friend, whomever and the recipient thought "Wow, great, I ain't tellin' -I get to keep that, that's awesome!"
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- johnpowell 7y agoI worked at a movie theater during college and people didn't really get in trouble if your till was under. But if it was over it was a instant strike.
- mensetmanusman 7y agoWhat’s unethical about taking advantage of another human who made a mistake?
- Kye 7y agoThis is not some over-burdened shop owner on the corner. I doubt any people were involved in setting these prices. Some algorithm messed up somewhere in a company for which this is a rounding error.
- mensetmanusman 7y agoI agree. But you have to admit it is unethical. People justify stealing $16 million from the government because it is just a rounding error every day :)
- Kye 7y ago>> "But you have to admit it is unethical." No, I don't. Buying something for the listed price is perfectly ethical. Your ethics are different. That's okay. People have different perspectives. My ethics don't require me to pay more than the asking price. I'll tip people who undercharge to the point that it's harmful to them (like albums on Bandcamp), but Amazon will be fine. >> "People justify stealing $16 million from the government because it is just a rounding error every day :)" I don't have the slightest idea what you're referring to here, but buying something for the price it's listed at is in no way stealing.
- mensetmanusman 7y agoInteresting. In previous e-commerce mistakes, negative prices were listed. If amazon listed -$16M as the cost of the camera and put it in your bank, would it be unethical to accept that?
- Kye 7y agoThis is like asking "what if the sun disappeared?" It hasn't happened, probably won't happen, and would be such a shock to all logic that any thoughts about it wouldn't survive contact with reality.
- gingabriska 7y ago> 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.
- kd5bjo 7y ago
- JabavuAdams 7y agoI can't tell whether this is a serious question, or not.
- kyruzic 7y agoYour opinion doesn't even make sense. You are literally saying it's unethical for a customer to buy something at the price which Amazon is selling it for? Because it might cause Amazon to lose money? You do realize businesses regularly sell products at a loss right? So at what point does the loss become so large that its unethical for the customer to buy it?
- mnm1 7y agoBy your insanely stupid logic, buying anything is unethical. Do you understand how markets work? Clearly not. Has Amazon even admitted it was a mistake and not a marketing ploy as others have suggested? No. So how do you know they didn't intend to sell at these prices? There's nothing unethical going on here only incredible misunderstanding and uninformed assumptions on your part. Maybe you should think twice next time before labeling things unethical when you clearly do not have the full facts.