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I got in on this! I got a Sony A7R II and a 24-70 2.8 II I'd always wanted but could never justify the purchase of. ($~3k value for $200) A few observations:
by acid__ 7y ago
I got in on this! I got a Sony A7R II and a 24-70 2.8 II I'd always wanted but could never justify the purchase of. ($~3k value for $200)
A few observations:
- Despite the extraordinary deal we got, my friends (who also made a purchase) and I all have our joy offset by a feeling of regret that we didn't order more. Greed!
- Despite the fact that I couldn't justify the purchase before I owned them, I now definitely don't want to sell the gear. A clear cut case of the Endowment Effect in action [0]
- A lot of people saying the orders are going to be cancelled -- seeing as I currently have both body and lens in possession, I find that unlikely.
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect
- nahtnam 7y agoDamn! I got the A6000 for $100, but I wish I got the A7R instead :( I guess that falls under observation 1
- _Nat_ 7y agoGrats on the lucky score! > A lot of people saying the orders are going to be cancelled -- seeing as I currently have both body and lens in possession, I find that unlikely. Gotta agree that it's unlikely for these orders to be cancelled. Seems like Amazon.com's got a lot of cash (without checking, but I assume?), so they can probably afford it. Instead, the smart move would seem to be to play this up hard -- perhaps, for example, pushing a few stories in advance of the next Prime Day about this mistake, driving more sales as folks hope to enjoy a similar lucky break. I mean, overall, seems like a nice feel-good story.
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- unethical_ban 7y agoExcellent point - what better way of advertising than to let some stories leak to mass tech media that you may hit a lottery, and if you do, Amazon won't take it away?
- teej 7y agoThere were stories of other mispriced deals that folks got where the order was cancelled. So I imagine it’s simply a matter of what Amazon caught in time vs not.
- h6d-100c 7y agoA camera I ordered just shipped, so I think they are just eating the cost.
- mkagenius 7y agoOnly if its in your hand. They have ways.
- h6d-100c 7y agoTo redirect a UPS shipment after a card has already been charged? Not even in pending - the charge has cleared at this point?
- BinaryIdiot 7y agoYes, technically the person or company who is shipping with UPS (or FedEx for that matter) can redirect shipments. Sometimes it's expensive, sometimes not so much. Regular folks receiving do not have as much control. I've never done it personally but when I worked at Polk Audio way back in the day they had a special application that interfaced with UPS and they could reroute things already in route. I don't know what the limits are, etc, but seems doable. Having said that I doubt they'll do it once it's out the door.
- zaarn 7y ago>- A lot of people saying the orders are going to be cancelled -- seeing as I currently have both body and lens in possession, I find that unlikely. Just as a counterview; I've ordered other types of equipment on prime day that had pricing errors and I was later informed Amazon would not fullfill the order and got a 20$ gift code.
- snikch 7y agoI've had the same situation and reward, but just on a normal non prime day.
- iamnotacrook 7y agoI've had mispriced orders cancelled with no gift voucher in return. Just a "mistakes happen" email.
- want2know 7y agoIn the Netherlands this also happened some times on webshops. And everytime a judge ruled people had to bring the goods back or should pay the full amount. The reason is that it is very clear for the buyer it is a mistake. And almost all webshops have a legal notice about wrong or false prices.
- mattashii 7y ago> And everytime a judge ruled people had to bring the goods back or should pay the full amount. This is slightly different from what I remember, so can you link me an example? Last time I checked, the webshop must fulfill the order, unless the price is obviously wrong, and the webshop cannot force a return for something the customer has already recieved and paid for.
- want2know 7y agoHere an example (in Dutch): http://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:GHSHE:2008:BC2420 http://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:G...
- mattashii 7y agoAh, I see. So, in short, you can be forced to return an order, but that is only because the order was not made with a "legal" price [0], so no legal transaction has taken place, and all that happened was you sending the webshop money without cause, and they mistakenly sending you a product, which both must be returned upon request by the other party. [0] a "legal" price is a price which the customer would expect for such a product. But in a shop advertising "up to 60% off", a 50% off TV would still be legal price, even if it is a price error.
- want2know 7y agoYes. It is a little more complicated than I posted earlier, but the point is that not all parties agreed on the arrangement so there was no arrangement.
- vkaku 7y agoHey, if you're feeling bad about it, I'll be happy to get it from you at $200
- iam_varunnair 7y agoYou are one hell of a lucky guy !!
- Sherl 7y agoNo. Amazon is not going to send you a legal notice to return this. Amazon wants to be the customer centric company and this act is to prove that they own the mistake and the customer is the king. Source: Amazon employee.
- Kaiyou 7y agoThis attitude is exactly why I feel safe buying from amazon and will continue to do so. If they were sending lawyers over a few bucks like Nintendo regularly does, they would have landed on my blacklist, just like Nintendo did. This attitude is imho one of the most important assets of amazon and they'd be stupid to throw it away over peanuts.