Brian Klug, a software engineer in California found a curious listing on Amazon for a Discover Channel "Cells" CD-ROM for sale on Amazon for $2,904,980,000. It was being sold by a third party seller called Suburbankbooks. Oh and get this, they charge $3.99 for shipping.
Being mischievous, he ordered the item and it was approved.
He writes on Reddit that Amazon called him to make sure he received the order cancellation e-mail from them and confirm that everything was OK on his end.
Amazon said that they have software checks to make sure orders with erroneous too-low prices are caught, but they don't have checks for the other extreme. They said they will be implementing changes ASAP.
Read the posting from Brian Klug here.
Amazon Customer Billed for $2.9 Billion CD-ROM Purchase
Friday, January 08, 2010 10:35 AM
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