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Amazon Erases Orders To Cover Up Pricing Mistake 338

Posted by kdawson from the now-that's-just-naughty dept.
The Knife writes "Amazon secretly canceled orders for a large jazz CD set after realizing that it had mis-priced the item at $31 instead of its MSRP of $499. At first, inventory shortages caused the online merchant to string customers along for over a month after they placed their orders. But when Amazon realized that the box set was under-priced by $470, it simply erased all records of customers' order in their account history. No emails were sent to customers informing them of the price change or of the order cancellation. Probably because it violates Amazon's highly publicized price guarantee policy. A customer who called to complain and request the CD set at the $31 price was given a $20 discount off of his next Amazon order." A caveat: there is no external confirmation that Amazon did what is claimed here.

Comment Re:Refund? Sure. Damages??? (Score 1) 286

by jimmyjams03 (#21853686) Attached to: Trekkie Sues Christie's for Fraudulent Props
"Value these days is indeed anticipatory.-------- If you bought a house that was guaranteed to be atop a famous grave, that purchase is more or less an investment. If it turned out that John Q. Public was underneath, that would be bad for business. Similarly, if you bought a stock based on reports from cooked books, you'd have a similar gripe." You never provide detail for your opening sentence in that paragraph. Your two supporting sentences are employ the same illustrate the same disappointment in a different situation. That is not count as analysis. Also, It's not interesting, that auction houses sell unique items at inflated values, its almost the definition of auction. I love Sl'dot post for what they are, but pick up a Roget's Tyrannosaurus instead of using the same word twice. "Similarly, if you bought a stock based on reports from cooked books, you'd have a similar gripe."
XBox (Games)

Journal Journal: Master Chief gives Nintendo the Banhammer

Journal by jimmyjams03
In Halo 3 players select a one letter two number series as a micro-tag for themselves, ex. A13 or B45. This is allows you to be identified by teammates at a distance on the HUD. But some combinations have been disabled, among them L17, the Master Chief's code in the Halo universe. More curiously, and vindictively are tags like N64 or P52, which are "not allowed under UNSC regulations." Didn't Bungie hear? Get N or get out.
Math

Kilogram Reference Losing Weight 546

Posted by CowboyNeal from the incredible-shrinking-alloys dept.
doubleacr writes "Ran across a story on CNN that says the "118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight — if ever so slightly. Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo appears to have lost 50 micrograms compared with the average of dozens of copies.""

Slate Speculates on Internet Operating Systems 248

Posted by Zonk from the googOS-would-be-fun-to-say dept.
Slate features a discussion of possible internet operating systems, a Google OS foremost among the potential contenders. The author views the fledgling YouOS as a proof-of-concept that an Internet OS is feasible. He dismisses the idea of a Google-built thin client, arguing that Google would rather build a service available from any Internet-capable device. Google's already-fast service would theoretically translate easily to other web-based applications. From the article: Dollar for dollar, network-based computers are faster. Unless you're playing Grand Theft Auto or watching HDTV, your network isn't the slowest part of your setup. It's the consumer-grade Pentium and disk drive on your Dell, and the wimpy home data bus that connects them. Home computers are marketed with slogans like "Ultimate Performance," but the truth is they're engineered to run cool, quiet, and slow compared to commercial servers. The author compares Eric Schmidt's denials of a Google OS to Steve Jobs's denials of a video iPod. However, he notes that potential obstacles to a Google OS adoption include: the desire to own things; the requirement for fast, flawless networks; and, the trust-deficit when putting personal information on web-based applications.

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