What did you buy during The Great $14.99 Amazon Sale?

Submitted by Teoh Yi Chie on

I've pushed the Bargain Books page back and removed all the links to books that went back to their normal prices. It was a glitch after all.

Looks like Amazon's sending out cancellation letters to some already.

I read that some books actually got shipped out, especially those that were in stock.

What did you buy during The Great $14.99 Amazon Sale? Did you manage to get your art books to the "Shipping Soon" or "Shipped" stage?

Here's what I ordered, some of which are for my friend.

Just for historic reference, here's the list of art books that went on the $14.99 sale during the glitch.

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Ok, now it's official, just

Submitted by LIRCH on

Ok, now it's official, just got mail from Amazon about this error.
Good news- Amazon will respect all orders!!!!!!!!!
Not so good news- but only one copy of each item (I guess no copies of iron man to my friends..)!
Have a great week everyone!

The mail:
We're contacting you about order #. Unfortunately, we recently discovered that an error caused the following item(s) to be displayed at an incorrect price: Iron Man: The Art Of Iron Man The Movie TPB At any given time, despite our best efforts, a small number of the millions of items on our site may be mispriced. However, this was our mistake, and we'll honor the incorrect price for one of the items you ordered. We're unable to honor the price for multiple quantities of this item. Therefore, we've adjusted the quantity of your order to "1." We're sorry for the disappointing news.

I really hope they ment 1 copy of each item, and not 1 copy per order...

@LIRCH I've received that

Submitted by Teoh Yi Chie on

@LIRCH
I've received that email from Amazon as well. They have decided honor 1 book per title if multiple copies are ordered.

Most of my order went through as I only ordered 1 copy per title, except for The Art of Iron Man 2 which I ordered 3 (and Amazon canceled 2).

Effectively, I had over $200 worth of savings over 13 books.

What a day!

Picked a selection of books,

Submitted by nysv on

Picked a selection of books, carefully calculated the total cost to avoid taxes and was all ready to order when I remembered that I should go and affiliate the purchase to someone. Went ahead and picked one site from those I follow, went to fill the cart and just as one would expect; the prices had been fixed.

Fairly annoyed about the whole deal. I haven't been able to buy any books for nearly a year and then had to miss this chance when they were finally affordable for me :/ Good to see some people got some books at least.

Back to wainting for the next one I guess...

I ordered SF20: The Art of

Submitted by Kevin on

I ordered SF20: The Art of Street Fighter, Udon's Art of Capcom, The Art of Top Cow and Witchblade Compendium Vol. 2. Unfortunatly Amazon mailed me a few minutes ago that they won`t get Udon`s Art of Capcom. But I didn`t recieved a mail concerning the false pricing but it looks like Amazon is behaving brave and fair. Thumbs up here.

Parka, Please cover your

Submitted by LIRCH on

Parka, Please cover your ears..
..
good..

Now people, I really hope you all remembered to make your orders from Parka's links! the guy deserves each cent he gets as a commission from amazon (although yesterday he coast them a bit more than just "a little commission " :-)

PARKA IS OUR HERO! :-)

don't know what about you

Submitted by parker on

don't know what about you parka, but today just got mail that cancel my order-

Unfortunately, due to a pricing error, we sold many more than expected. In fact, we completely sold out — we don't have any in stock right now, and we're not even sure if we'll be able to get more. As a result, we've had to cancel your order. I realize this is disappointing news, and I'm so sorry for any inconvenience this causes.

:-(

@parker You ordered a lot of

Submitted by Teoh Yi Chie on

@parker
You ordered a lot of comics?

At the time of the glitch, most of the comics were already displaying shipping lead time of at least 1 week. I'm beginning to think that my 2 comics might be canceled too.

As for art books, most of them were in stock and I'm pretty sure Amazon would have no problem fulfilling them. As I'm writing this now, most of the art books are still in stock.

Half my original order of 12

Submitted by Zaer on

Half my original order of 12 books (8 of which were bugged at the time though I didn't realise as they're all artbooks) and all my pre-orders/back orders from another order just mysteriously vanished from my orders on Amazon. No e-mail, nothing. Just my original 12 book order now down to 6 (only 2 glitched ones).

They did e-mail me about cancelling the Art of Udon earlier because it was out of stock, but some of the books that disappeared were clearly in-stock, and even now still are.

Now I'm just annoyed cause I planned my orders to be just nicely below the GST cap, and I'll probably have to add more to them.

Or maybe I should protest and take my money to the Kino sale this weekend.

I ordered art books. they

Submitted by parker on

I ordered art books. they canceled all my pre-order, like iron man 1+2, although its still on sale, art of udon (out of stock), mega man+ mega man x- I don't know what is the problem.
I want to contact Amazon but don't know how.. this is really disappointing

I ordered 1 copy of 4

Submitted by MarkD on

I ordered 1 copy of 4 different art books and my order has simply vanished as well with no notification as to why. I'm waiting to hear back from an email I sent them asking what happened. Of course we all know how this is going to pan out. Sigh. At least contact me. Makes me simply not want to use Amazon again in the future.

I've been reading people

Submitted by MarkD on

I've been reading people getting out of stock emails but they are still selling those items and showing them in stock. So some are trying to re-order and get a price adjustment. Not worth the trouble at this point. Hopefully others do the same as me and speak with their wallet since an email isn't going to do anything. Poor form in such a bad economy.

Finally got the email saying

Submitted by MarkD on

Finally got the email saying they have no stock which is a lie. Everything except for SF20 is still showing in stock. I wrote asking them to explain why they cancelled the ones they are still showing in stock. F Amazon. Here's the BS email they sent me...

Hello,

Our records indicate you recently ordered 'Okami Official Complete Works
Darkstalkers Tribute
SF20: The Art of Street Fighter
The Marvel Art of Marko Djurdjevic'. Unfortunately, due to a pricing error, we sold many more than expected. In fact, we completely sold out — we don't have any in stock right now, and we're not even sure if we'll be able to get more.

As a result, we've had to cancel your order. I realize this is disappointing news, and I'm so sorry for any inconvenience this causes.

You may want to check our website from time to time to see if this item is available. If anyone is selling it, you'll see a "More Buying Choices" box on the product detail page; if it's not available from any sellers, you might see an "Order it used" or "Alert me" link. "Order it used" allows you to place a pre-order for the item in case another seller lists the item for sale later. "Alert me" allows you to sign up so we can e-mail you when Amazon has stock available for purchase.

I'm sorry I don't have better news. We hope to see you again soon.

I must ask, did anyone

Submitted by Anonymous on

I must ask, did anyone recieve an email saying that your order was shipped before it was cancelled?

I did not find the "sale" via parka but through manually searching (was comparing european prices with american) and I found a handful of artbooks that I wanted. Except for the Okami book I ordered stuff that wasn't in your list. Apparently there was a pricing error on alot of Ashley Wood and other artbooks also.

Today I got an email saying that my order was shipped with everything except for my Okami book. It looks like they took an amount of money from my account and tells me I can't cancel it already, are they just wrong or you think I have a chance of getting those books?

If your items are shipped, if

Submitted by Teoh Yi Chie on

If your items are shipped, if means they have left their fulfillment center so you'll definitely be getting the books.

As for Okami art book, I doubt Amazon will be honoring it at $15. They have said in the email they ran out of stock and canceled the order.

Seems like they've labelled

Submitted by Zaer on

Seems like they've labelled all affected titles as now no longer being sold from Amazon.com, even the pre-orders.

I got an e-mail after I wrote in to their customer service about the cancellations.

Good News, the newest Amazon

Submitted by Kevin on

Good News, the newest Amazon mail:

Hello,

We wanted to follow up on a recent message we sent about the cancellation of your recent order.

To recap: Due to a pricing error, we sold many more graphic novels than expected. In fact, we completely sold out — we don't have any in stock right now, and we're not sure when we'll be able to get more.

We're sorry for any frustration the issue may have caused, and have applied a $25 promotional certificate to your account.

You can use it the next time you order an item shipped and sold by Amazon.com. You'll see your available promotional balance at checkout--this amount will be applied to your next order automatically without entering a claim code.

I hope this helps. We look forward to seeing you again soon.

Sincerely,

Customer Service
Amazon.com

Ok well. Now I'm just not

Submitted by Olof on

Ok well. Now I'm just not sure about anything anymore.
I'm the previous poster mentioning Ashley Wood books.

They shipped my first order at 9th march, Ashley Wood sparrow boxset and Skilled Huntsman. Later the same day (10 hours ago to be more exact) I got a reply telling me Okami had a pricing error, was sold out and I get a $25 something something.

Just now I recieve another letter telling me that my Okami book was just shipped.

Did I just get all three of my books in two separate orders together with a coupon by mistake?
Did they send out "Your order was sent" emails by mistake, is none of my orders sent and did I only get a coupon?

They already took money from my account, but since I'm living in europe it'll take almost a month before I'll know for sure. I've also emailed the amazon staff.
I have no idea why they would send the first two books one day before the okami book, especially when I selected the option to put orders together for lesser shipping costs.

I'm not expecting anyone to know the answers to this. Just sharing ~~

Since I only ordered Capcom

Submitted by Erix on

Since I only ordered Capcom books, I'm probably not getting anything, but I'm still holding onto hope that Amazon will get a restock of all those artbooks.

I also ordered the Avatar TLA artbook, but since it's not even out yet, I don't see how they can cancel it due to lack of availability... at least move it back to my cart...

I've got the $25 coupon as

Submitted by Teoh Yi Chie on

I've got the $25 coupon as well, something to lighten up the whole situation.

@Olof
Amazon only charges money when items are shipped so your two books are probably shipped already. And sometimes they break up shipping into several parcels so that they can send out faster, which happens to me all the time.

If you still don't receive your books by the end of the shipping estimate they provide you, you can contact Amazon. They will make sure you get the book and ship again, at their cost, again happens to me sometimes. Shipping to Europe might not be that slow. I live in Singapore (Asia) and standard shipping to here (the cheapest option) is around 2-3 weeks, usually 2 weeks.

And if you still don't receive your books, they will refund you. Again, happens to me but rarely because most of my books arrive, based on my experience shopping with them so far.

@Erix
Me too. I also can't see how they can run out of stocks for those pre-orders without having stocks in the first place.

Not to rain on anyone's

Submitted by Averly on

Not to rain on anyone's parade but I think I lucked out because of few reasons.

A) I had a fairly small order. I only ordered the Okami book, Apple Vol 3, and the Marko book in one shipment. I also ordered the Avatar (TLAB) book but I placed that in a separate order so as not to affect my initial shipment.
B) I ordered (I think) pretty early on after seeing Parka's post (Thank you so much for the info, Parka!)
and
C) Mine's was an international order, since I live in Canada. Honestly, I thought this would have been a negative but maybe I got overlooked in the sea of domestic "Free Shipping" orders. Who knows.

All and all, I came away happy because all of the books I REALLY wanted have shipped at the fabulous price of $14.99! The only order the cancelled was for the Avatar book, which I expected and, like most people I received a $25 credit (which, in all honesty, will probably go towards purchasing the Avatar book when it's out). With only a few weeks before my birthday, this is truly an awesome gift and I can't thank you enough Parka for bringing this to my attention.

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