Lair and Folklore pre-orders cancelled in Amazon UK
Only recently Amazon UK was offering the PlayStation 3 games Lair and Folklore for only GBP 14.99 (about US$ 30) each. The appealing prices quickly shot the games to the best selling list in Amazon. Sadly though, Amazon reported that there was a mistake in recording the prices and had to cancel the pre-orders.
According to the email sent by Amazon UK to those who’ve pre-ordered Lair and Folklore, it’s standard procedure to cancel the orders if the reported price was lower than the actual price. Right now the games are available for GBP 34.99 (around US$ 70) each. Lair will be available on October 19 in the Europe, and Folklore on October 12.
Read Amazon UK’s email in the full article after the jump.
Only recently Amazon UK was offering the PlayStation 3 games Lair and Folklore for only GBP 14.99 (about US$ 30) each. The appealing prices quickly shot the games to the best selling list in Amazon. Sadly though, Amazon reported that there was a mistake in recording the prices and had to cancel the pre-orders.
According to the email sent by Amazon UK to those who’ve pre-ordered Lair and Folklore, it’s standard procedure to cancel the orders if the reported price was lower than the actual price. Right now the games are available for GBP 34.99 (around US$ 70) each. Lair will be available on October 19 in the Europe, and Folklore on October 12.
Amazon UK sent this email to those who pre-ordered Lair and Folklore:
Dear Customer
We are writing to inform you that the price for the following item was displayed incorrectly at the time you placed the above referenced order:
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Folklore (PS3)
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Despite our best efforts, with the millions of items available on our website, pricing errors can occasionally occur.
In our Pricing and Availability Policy (see http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=1040614), we state that where an item’s correct price is higher than our stated price, we will cancel the order and notify you of that cancellation.
Your order has now been cancelled. If you still wish to purchase this item, please place a new order online which will be charged at the correct price, when we dispatch it to you.
Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused by this error, and rest assured that we will continue to make every effort to maintain the accuracy of all prices on our site.
We look forward to serving you again in the future.
Warmest regards, Amazon.co.uk