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by anamexis 2318 days ago
I won the lottery on a similar issue. I was looking at monitors on Amazon using a business account, which sometimes offers volume discounts. Instead of a $10 discount, someone had set the unit price to $10 if you bought more than one, for a $1100 monitor. I bought five. I expected the order to be cancelled, but a week later five monitors showed up.
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Along the same lines, I was shopping for fuel injectors and someone listed a particular part number at like $1.50ea. So now, years later, I have a peanut butter jar fulled of 24lb/hr EV1 injectors that are not the right flow rate for anything I own but hey, maybe I'll use them eventually. It's nice to find a pricing error but it's rare to be in a position to actually use or be able to re-sell multiple units.