Another pricing glitch at Amazon, this time more egregious. DVD boxed sets were mistakenly priced at enormous discounts — some >75% off list. When Amazon discovered their mistake, they asked customers to pay the higher price or cancel their orders. “This is the last time I will do business with Amazon. There are too many other places online that don’t pull stunts like that,” was one (representative??) customer response. Amazon had similar difficulties last month in its toy store, which led to complaints to the FTC and the Better Business Bureau about what some construed as deceptive advertising and unfair treatment. Then there’s the “price-testing” debacle of last week, also in the DVD store. Lo! how the mighty have fallen — Amazon’s fate as the online retailer the public loves to hate seems sealed.CNET
