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eMacs for £14 in Web bungle (100 million orders)
Macworld ^
| 4/23/04
| Martyn Williams
Posted on 04/23/2004 4:54:35 AM PDT by Rebelbase
A Japanese company has been deluged with thousands of orders for multiple eMacs this week after computer error caused them to be listed on an online shopping site for the knock-down price of £14 a pop.
Catena said it received orders from around 20,000 people for 100 million eMacs, but said it will be unable to fulfill the orders.
The company said a code number assigned to a set of five 8x DVD-R discs, which were the products it was intending to sell, was sent to Yahoo Japan on Wednesday afternoon. However, a product information database matched that code with details for the eMac computer and with the price for the DVD discs. The result was a listing for the computer, part number M9461J/A, at a price of ¥2,787 (around £14) rather than the usual price of over ¥100,000 (over £500).
Yahoo Japan was notified of the problem at 9:15 am on Thursday morning – however, the product did not disappear from the Web site until 11 am, said Catena.
Both companies have posted notices on their Web sites apologizing for the error.
That Catena says it won't fulfill the orders isn't a surprise – but had it done so, it would have catapulted Apple's market share in Japan to around 90 per cent for the year. In October last year IDC estimated around 14.1 million PCs would be sold in Japan during 2004.
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iwantone
Dang! Emac for $26.
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posted on
04/23/2004 4:54:36 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: Rebelbase
eMac
2
posted on
04/23/2004 4:55:00 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
("Kerry is the female version of Hillary"............FReeper Paul Atreides)
To: Rebelbase
I wouldn't pay $26 for Emacs. Emacs is free with almost any Linux distro.
3
posted on
04/23/2004 5:04:54 AM PDT
by
MediaMole
To: Rebelbase
I can't use a Mac.
4
posted on
04/23/2004 5:08:23 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: Rebelbase
That's a lot of money for a doorstop.
5
posted on
04/23/2004 5:18:17 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(My Biography: Psalm 40:1-3)
To: AppyPappy; Rebelbase
<< I can't use a Mac. >>
That's the beauty of the absolutely user-friendly Mac. It knows you can't and, better yet, that you don't want to. Mac users don't know a thing about computers and just get on with their work.
Macs are the only real computers!
6
posted on
04/23/2004 6:10:59 AM PDT
by
Brian Allen
(Intact - Male - American - Republican - Pro-Bush - PRO-ISRAEL - Pro-War - Pro-Gun - Pro-Life! Next?)
To: Brian Allen
No I mean I really can't use one. I'm a heterosexual.
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posted on
04/23/2004 6:11:37 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: AppyPappy
ROFL!
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posted on
04/23/2004 6:12:48 AM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Cats: The Other White Meat.)
To: Rebelbase
Get you
Emacs right here for free.
9
posted on
04/23/2004 6:15:14 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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