Re: [Chicken-users] Fwd: Queinnec's Lisp in Small Pieces for CAN$3.95+shipping

[bryan rasmussen]

hmm, I just saw a blog post on this in my lisp reading list:

http://spikeypillow.com/item/28/catid/4

"However, Amazon has cancelled the $4 orders for Lisp in Small Pieces,
along with several other books which were also priced at $4. The guy
from customer service I spoke to says they will be sending out mails
telling people about this later today. They claim there were "pricing
mistakes", (LISP is now priced at $94.40). Their pricing policy allows
them to cancel any orders which haven't shipped and were incorrectly
priced. So, no LISP for you!

I find the pricing mistake story suspect as I've seen how good
amazon's monitoring software is at predicting orders. And something as
anomalous as an obscure programming book outselling Harry Potter would
have raised alarm bells long before they repriced it.

This pricing mistake also applies to a couple of other books that were
selling for $4 around the same time:

Probability Theory : The Logic of Science by E. T. Jaynes, cancelled
due to pricing mistake
Numerical Methods of Statistics by John F. Monahan, cancelled due to
unavailability of stock.

"

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen

On 8/15/07, bryan rasmussen <address@hidden> wrote:
> I believe the mathematical behavior of this is explained by an email I
> just received from Amazon.ca, relevant text:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> In accordance with our posted policies on pricing, we're unable to
> offer items that have an incorrectly posted price.  Therefore, we have
> cancelled this item from your order.
>  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I hope it doesn't make me less of a man if I sit here and cry for a while.
>
> Cheers,
> Bryan Rasmussen
>
> On 8/10/07, Brandon Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 8/10/07, Arto Bendiken <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > On 8/10/07, Brandon Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > BTW that site is showing LiSP for $CA 76.86,
> > > > not exactly a deal.
> > >
> > > It's up to CDN$ 94.40, now, with that being a price increase of 90.45
> > > since yesterday when it was still selling for 3.95
> >
> > I don't understand the mathematical behavior of this.  Unless the
> > point of a radical price drop is to temporarily catapult a book to the
> > #1 spot.  Then do you get to claim "#1 Bestseller!" on your cover or
> > something?  "#1 Bestseller for 24 hours!"
> >
> > > - guess you missed the deal...
> >
> > Wasn't planning to buy it.  I don't need no steenkin' books to learn
> > Lisp.  I just wanted to know what could possibly be more popular than
> > Harry Potter.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Brandon Van Every
> >
> >
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