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kb_lock wrote:
I'm moving all my servers off aws in protest

LOL There you go!

It would be even more impressive if you finished with, "And I run Netflix." (they just finished moving to AWS, I think)

Just a follow-up on this.

I ordered one set and also received the "order has been cancelled" e-mail a month later. In that e-mail, Amazon suggested an alternative which just happened to be the same product at $86 rather than the original $17.50. As an added bonus, the alternative did not offer shipping to Canada.

My understanding of Amazon is that they have 2 types of orders/shipping. They have massive warehouses from which they ship their own stock and maybe some of belonging to their partner vendors. This list these items as "Amazon-fulfilled". The other type of transaction are for orders that are sent directly from the vendor/store partners of which Amazon must get a cut in profits. Both the original $17.50 offer and the alternative named above were Amazon-fulfilled. This means it was a case of "we can't sell you them for $17.50 and ship them to you from our warehouse but we can at $86".

I sent them an e-mail stating my disappointment and questioning the fairness of the bait and switch in pricing. By the time they responded, the $86 Amazon-fulfilled were now also out of stock but vendor-direct stock was available. The stated that they could do nothing about the pricing on orders as shipped direct by their vendors but would still honour the original price on a Amazon-fulfilled order. I was hesitant as it was quite the difference in pricing and when the product finally came back up as available last week, I ordered a set again..... at $109.99. It took a few days but I did receive a credit of $92.50 to my credit card. Somewhere along the way, I also got free shipping. Although it was great that they actually came through with this offer, it was more than I expected and I am disappointed and feel a bit guilty that they did not offer this to everyone.

I now think something else went down where they actually had stock to sell at a price of $17.50. When all of our original orders listed such a long date to re-stock, it was a bit of a red flag that something was not right and I assumed that they had screwed up the pricing or perhaps the product was factory seconds (they are actually perfect). My new theory is that 1 buyer recognized the deal early on and bought the majority or all of them to resell later. Perhaps there was discussion between Amazon and the buyer about "limit per customer" hence the amount of time it took for them to decide to cancel our orders. If this was the scenario, they buyer got a great deal and I can't blame them at all for buying them all up. A quick check shows that the set can still be purchased outside of Amazon for appx $55 + shipping.

If the Google search results are true, this offer has come up before and may happen again so be prepared.

Well, shipping to Japan would have quintupled the price for me. However, a quick search on Amazon Japan netted me a set of six brushes for about ￥9000, which is about half off retail. That's about as good as it gets here.

 Jackal wrote:
I've been greedy and got 5 sets lol.
Can't pass this up and doubt I'll find a deal like it for some time.

if i was a woman....
damn deals over

Got the first batch of my brushes today. After the initial order was cancelled I reached out to Amazon and politely explained my disappointment they offered to allow me to order the brushes individually, and they would honor the rate that I paid.