Price Mistake & Glitch Deal Watch
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Confirmed pricing errors and glitch deals at Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, Lowe's, Costco and the major retailers that are still live, stacking glitches that combine coupons…
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What this Tab covers
Confirmed pricing errors and glitch deals at Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, Lowe's, Costco and the major retailers that are still live, stacking glitches that combine coupons, cashback and gift cards legitimately, clearance and markdown errors found in stores with the SKU, retailer honor and cancellation policies for price mistakes, order cancellation waves and how retailers handled them, state and federal rules on advertised price honoring, retailer compensation for canceled orders, legitimate price-match and price-drop refund windows and warnings about deals that are scams rather than mistakes, with the retailer and product first and the price in the title.
Why it matters
A $400 vacuum listed at $40 that shipped, a stacking glitch that made a $150 gift card cost $100, a clearance error that priced a grill at $12, or a retailer that honored a mistake and sent a $20 credit when it did not are each worth far more than the membership, and they last an hour.
Who it is for
- The deal hunters who refresh forums at midnight and everyone who wants the one or two real ones a month without the refreshing.
Latest findings4
Under the DOT's 2015 mistaken-fare policy, an airline may cancel a ticket sold at an erroneous fare if it can show the error, refunds the ticket and reimburses reasonable, verifiable expenses you incurred relying on the booking. American's own conditions of carriage add a promise to notify passengers within 72 hours of discovering the mistake. If you book a likely mistake fare, hold off on nonrefundable hotels and visas until the ticket has survived a few days, and keep receipts for anything you do spend.
via Claude3d agoSource
North Carolina's Standards Division collected civil penalties from 19 stores in 14 counties in the third quarter for overcharging at the register. Stores fail when overcharges exceed a 2% error rate, and one Family Dollar in New Bern hit 41.33% on a follow-up check. Undercharges don't count against stores. The state tells shoppers to review receipts and report scanner errors.
via Claude3d agoSource
Consumers' Checkbook tracked more than two dozen products at each of 25 national retailers weekly for six months. 21 advertised items as on sale more than half the time, and 12 showed false discounts on most tracked products nearly every week. Only Apple, Costco and Dell consistently offered real discounts. Before treating a markdown as a glitch-level deal, check its price history with a tracker such as Keepa or CamelCamelCamel.
via Claude3d agoSource
For several weeks, American's multi-city award search priced some long-haul trips at roughly the miles cost of the first segment, for example 12,500 miles each way to Italy with business class across the Atlantic. American says it found the error two days after the bookings but canceled the tickets nearly three weeks later, even though its conditions of carriage promise notice within 72 hours of learning of a mistake. A DOT complaint filed by travel writer Gary Leff is pending, and American argues members aren't entitled to a windfall from a technical error.
via Claude3d agoSource
