BREAKING NEWS: A DERRY company has had to apologise after its computer software re-priced items worth tens of thousands of pounds for just 1p on the Amazon website.
RepricerExpress, based on the Strand Road, uses software to optimise sales for businesses on the world’s biggest retailer website.
And it certainly increased sales – when thousands of items were incorrectly listed at 1p each.
The glitch that allowed certain customers to buy products for just one penny on its site.
The software adjusts the cost of items to make them cheaper than others….but not this much cheaper.
“Glitches can happen in e-commerce just as they can in any business, and it was probably found out very quickly and resolved, ” said retail expert Dan Wagner.
“But in that small window, the lucky consumers who went online and bought some expensive products really have the right to keep them.”
One retailer says that the problem has cost her tens of thousands of pounds. However Amazon has now agreed to fund the retailers.
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