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Was this a bargain or am I a CF?

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FabRickie · 15/05/2023 17:53

Name changed for this one..

I was browsing Amazon the other day and came across some fabric at a great price, so I ordered a fairly large amount. In the past I've bought it for eight or nine quid a metre. There are several different designs and a few of them were 50p a meter. I guessed they were on clearance so ordered 10m of each of a few that I liked.

It occurred to me later that this might have been a mistake, so I went back to check and they had gone up to normal price. I expected they would cancel my order because they had made a mistake. They sent me an email saying they had dispatched it and nothing to say it had been cancelled. I started to feel really guilty that I had taken advantage of them.

On a separate Amazon page for the same seller it says they charge 50p per sample, so I guess someone put that on by mistake. The page I ordered from was definitely in meters. No mention of samples. My order says meters.

So now I'm waiting for a delivery that will either be a great big bundle of fabric, or an envelope of teeny pieces. If it's samples, I will have to send them back for a refund, which will be embarrassing because they will think I'm a greedy cow and they might say I should have known they weren't meters for that price.

I'm either going to get a load of fabric I got at a ridiculous price due to someone's mistake or I'm going to have to own up to being a cheap chancer.

YABU - It was greedy to order loads and either way I'm a CF

YANBU - The price was clearly marked and they could have cancelled my order if it was wrong

OP posts:
plasticpens · 15/05/2023 17:57

Surely if it's samples at 50p each you are not going to send them back?

Ktime · 15/05/2023 17:58

YANBU at all. They will know well and good that they have they can refuse the sale, so if they haven't cancelled that's their choice.

Enjoy with zero guilt.

And if it turns out to be tine samples, definitely return them for being unclear on what they're selling.

Ktime · 15/05/2023 17:58

plasticpens · 15/05/2023 17:57

Surely if it's samples at 50p each you are not going to send them back?

Why wouldn't she? 50p for a lot of samples adds up.

plasticpens · 15/05/2023 18:00

Oh hang on I misread that amount of samples Blush

Mummapenguin20 · 15/05/2023 18:04

I’m hoping you got a bargin

Alargeoneplease89 · 15/05/2023 18:05

I always order glitches on amazon, if your email says metres then you have every right to have a refund.

Itsanotherhreatday · 15/05/2023 18:06

I think you’ve got a bargain!

custardbear · 15/05/2023 18:10

Bargain! Sometimes they have crash sales, I bought a bottle of perfume for £8 once which is usually about £40
Enjoy!

Original poster
FabRickie · 15/05/2023 18:10

Thanks folks.
The delivery is due today or tomorrow, so fingers crossed!

OP posts:
78thcat · 15/05/2023 18:10

Alargeoneplease89 · 15/05/2023 18:05

I always order glitches on amazon, if your email says metres then you have every right to have a refund.

How do you do this? (CF in training)

sadsack78 · 15/05/2023 18:35

Enjoy your bargain!
Jeff Bezos will not cry himself to sleep over you scoring some discounted fabric.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 15/05/2023 18:59

Enjoy your bargain!
Jeff Bezos will not cry himself to sleep over you scoring some discounted fabric.

I'm not saying that OP was right or wrong to take advantage; but it will be the seller who takes the loss and not Amazon/Jeff B.

Allhailkingcharlie · 15/05/2023 19:01

This is brilliant.

Aprilx · 15/05/2023 19:10

sadsack78 · 15/05/2023 18:35

Enjoy your bargain!
Jeff Bezos will not cry himself to sleep over you scoring some discounted fabric.

@sadsack78

You are quite right of course, but it is nothing to do with Jeff Bezos, it is probably a small business selling on Amazon. That is the Amazon business model. Of course the small business had every opportunity to cancel so I am not saying I am massively worried about them but that really was a very daft comment.

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 15/05/2023 19:11

It might well have been a sale - but only for example 30 meters of each fabric, and once it sold, it went up to normal price again. Some internet shops do this, and state it only the first x number of units at that bargain price. Maybe you just got extra lucky - in which case go and get a lottery ticket!

polkadotdalmation · 15/05/2023 19:16

sadsack78 · 15/05/2023 18:35

Enjoy your bargain!
Jeff Bezos will not cry himself to sleep over you scoring some discounted fabric.

It's not Jeff Bezos selling, it's a fabric company using the Amazon platform.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 15/05/2023 19:18

Of course the small business had every opportunity to cancel

I bet this goes against them, though, if they cancel too many (or even any) orders - and probably puts them further down the search results on Amazon. I don't know how selling on Amazon Marketplace works, but I'm guessing that Amazon have it all set up to look out for their own interests first and foremost.

vandupe · 15/05/2023 19:18

Their mistake!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 15/05/2023 19:22

It might well have been a sale - but only for example 30 meters of each fabric, and once it sold, it went up to normal price again. Some internet shops do this, and state it only the first x number of units at that bargain price. Maybe you just got extra lucky - in which case go and get a lottery ticket!

Would they not put a limit on it per customer, though? What's the point in taking a hit to promote yourself, with a view to building up a future repeat custom base, if one person just snaps up the lot?

I think it's much more likely that somebody initially clicked the wrong button and then everything kicked in automated from then. Nobody at Amazon would have entered the item details themselves - they sell far too many things for them to do that job in-house for everything.

ChattermaxFromBluey · 15/05/2023 19:52

Sometimes sellers intentionally do things like this to push more sales through their shop and get more reviews as both boost the algorithm so it could have been a loss leader? I hope for everyone’s sake that’s what it is and not a mistake! They could have cancelled if they didn’t want to honour it!

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 15/05/2023 22:00

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll
i guess any limit would be dependant on the business circumstances. Eg, if they desperately need the space or it’s going out of date, and can sell quickly to one customer, then why bother limiting how much one person can have. It would only slow up the clearance process and the monetary amount is still the same to them, wether it’s from one customer or culminated over 10 customers. Sometimes a sale is just a sale and not always about growing a customer base.

PocketfulOfMiracles · 15/05/2023 22:34

I had a £250 BBQ a couple of years ago for £25, someone had missed off a couple of figures. I ordered just one, told nobody and hoped for the best.
Price was corrected late afternoon but the company honoured it and their goodwill went a long way with me as I’ve bought quite a lot of things from them since.

Lavenderandbrown · 15/05/2023 23:04

Pottery barn did this with a large rug. Priced 70$ instead of 700$ so my niece sister and I all ordered and possibly all of niece’s Facebook friends because pottery barn cancelled the sale 48 hrs later. If you receive the fabric enjoy it because the vendor absolutely can cancel the sale of there is an error in the listing.

PocketfulOfMiracles · 16/05/2023 10:43

Lavenderandbrown · 15/05/2023 23:04

Pottery barn did this with a large rug. Priced 70$ instead of 700$ so my niece sister and I all ordered and possibly all of niece’s Facebook friends because pottery barn cancelled the sale 48 hrs later. If you receive the fabric enjoy it because the vendor absolutely can cancel the sale of there is an error in the listing.

And that’s most likely why it was cancelled. You told everyone.

when you find a misprice you quietly order just one. You don’t announce it to the world. A company is much more likely to honour a single order and lose a little, whereas they really won’t honour it for all your friends and family as well and lose a lot.

They can always cancel a sale, but goodwill is more likely when you have t broadcast it to the world.

HolyFuckerRooney · 16/05/2023 10:49

Place marking to see what you end up with