The Shrine

http://www.deepdiscount.com/

I just bought about 10 games for $25, even some for systems I don't even have yet. Free shipping to boot. A lot of good games for $1-3.

What the hell? They even have some good 360 games for $1-3 like Dead Rising and CoD2. Is there a catch or something?

EDIT: After looking at a bunch of the cheap ones, they all say they're no longer available.

the heck did you buy Sine? Nothing on here is much cheaper...any new game is $1-$5 off at most, and any CHEAP games are all coincidentally "unavailable"

I got them on the cart anyway. Figured they were either going to ship them late or cancel the order. Worth the effort.

I found this on slickdeals.net, so a bunch of the guys there did the same thing and likely exhausted the supply.

Just got the confirmation email!!! They will ship 6/17


Quantity Item # Description Price Status
-------- ------------ ----------------------------------- ---------- ---------
1 GBD673527 GB DS: METROID PRIME HUNTERS $ 2.49 Avl 06/17
1 GBD673577 GB DS: TRACE MEMORY $ 1.39 Avl 06/17
1 GBD673588 GB DS: METROID PRIME PINBALL $ 1.39 Avl 06/17
1 GBD890613 GB DS: FINAL FANTASY III $ 2.99 Avl 06/17
1 PSX200003 PS 2: LA PUCELLE TACTICS $ 1.39 Avl 06/17
1 PSX232935 PS 2: LEGO STAR WAR 2 ORGNL TRIL $ 1.39 Avl 06/17
1 PSX314853 PS 2: THE URBZ:SIMS IN THE C(GH) $ 1.39 Avl 06/17
1 PSX537023 PS 2: FAMILY GUY $ 1.41 Avl 06/17
1 PSX890606 PS 2: FINAL FANTASY VII DIRGE $ 1.39 Avl 06/17
1 PSX974652 PS 2: RATCHET DEADLOCKED (GH) $ 1.39 Avl 06/17
1 PSX974722 PS 2: SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS (GH $ 1.39 Avl 06/17
1 XBO405348 XBOX 360: PROJECT GOTHAM RACING 3 $ 2.05 Avl 06/17
1 XBO581053 XBOX 360: TONY HAWK AMERIC WASTEL $ 2.99 Avl 06/17
1 XBO668008 XBOX 360: PHANTASY STAR UNIVERSE $ 2.09 Avl 06/17
1 XBO833001 XBOX 360: DEAD RISING $ 2.99 Avl 06/17

Merchandise Total: $ 28.13
Tax: $ .00
Shipping & Processing: $ .00

Total for this Order: $ 28.13

Been fixed since. All the prices are back to normal

Watch your credit card statements. If the prices you bought those games at was a mistake on their part, they still might charge you the normal price. Amazon did that a while back when they screwed up the price of a DVD collection.

Kupek wrote:Watch your credit card statements. If the prices you bought those games at was a mistake on their part, they still might charge you the normal price. Amazon did that a while back when they screwed up the price of a DVD collection.

You couldn't fight them on that? You had a confirmation, it's basically a contract

Maybe you could. It would be a pain either way. Details here: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/15/1356226

Hmm, what you can do to be really nasty and put the onus back on them in a situation like that is to call your credit card company and deny that second charge. You could tell the credit card company that it was an online purchase and that the second billing was not authorized and was in error. They will say "clear it up with the customer" but you could say "I will, but I want you to deny it, I didn't authorize the second one". You even have the confirmation to prove the one charge but not the other. They can't say "no", if you didn't give authorization, you didn't give it. The credit card company flat-out cannot side with the vendor in a situation where no authorization was given.

Then you're forcing Amazon to come back to you and prove that they should be deservant of the money. That is more effort than it's worth on their end and they will likely forget it for a $100 or so.

Well, just got another email saying that they had a "system malfunction" and that some items were priced in error, and the order was cancelled.


Oh well...it was worth a shot.

They blamed it on a system malfunction? ha!

And the confirmation just confirmed the order, not the prices...they wouldn't have charged the credit card until shipment.

At least they warned you, I wouldn't put it past a sleezier company to process all those orders at the fixed prices.

The Amazon case and this case are two different things. They were advertizing the prices as shown, and I was signing an agreement to pay those prices. There was no clear indication that the prices were incorrect. (Sure, there's speculation, but nothing that would clearly conflict with the price that I'm being asked to pay.)

Therefore, if the deal went through, and my credit card was charged, the deal is sealed. They cannot charge my CC again, and if they try to change the prices at the last minute, that's illegal, too, because it gives me no time to agree to the new charge.

Besides, I had already "signed" my contract by submitting the order. They can revoke both sides of the offer (item for cash), but they can't increase the price or give out something less for the same price.

In both cases, you agreed to pay an amount the site later considered an error. How you got to that point is different, but the end result is the same. Deepdiscount just noticed it before shipping the items, whereas Amazon didn't noticed until after the items had shipped. What you're saying they can't do is exactly what Amazon did; they said if the items weren't returned, they would charge the full amount.

(Unrelated to the discussion at hand, but I think it was in Amazon's best interest to just bite the bullet. However much money they lost - a few hundred thousand, maybe? - was not worth the bad publicity they got for looking like dicks.)

Looks like they caught the error before they charged anyone-- confirmation is just that, confirming your order; it makes no indication that they have done anything WITH it yet. Next you'd get a "successfully charged" and "shipped" emails, so they didn't get that far before realizing their mistake.

I think I missed that Amazon thing-- error in prices, people bought, Amazon didn't notice until they had shipped the items? How is that legal in ANY regard to change the terms of a finalized deal?

"Your burger comes to $1.25" "Here you go" *20 minutes later after finishing it* "I'm sorry sir but there was an error-- your burger was really $10.25, either spit it back up or pay up"