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Now THIS is a clever pre-christmas marketing ploy. Basically Amazon have “accidentally” sent a student £3600 worth of goods and said he can keep them.
Clever how Amazon made it so the goods were all being "returned" to make people think the "original customers" were getting their "money back" for "stuff they didn't want". All the items apart from the Cosatto Supa Baby Buggy, Draper leaf blower and Brabantia ironing board (actually perhaps not the ironing board) smack of: "Let's make sure all the stuff we "accidentally" send is what a student would want."
£3600 for newspaper space, now that is an absolute steal of a bargain, much cheaper than paying for advertising. Amazon have even managed to get a list of the particular products on a newspaper article I saw, many of which are currently discounted. Wow, just wow, that is just genius cheeky.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...s-from-Amazon-because-of-computer-glitch.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...including-TV-tablet-sent-computer-glitch.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6142803/Student-gets-3k-gifts-free-in-Amazon-glitch.html
http://money.aol.co.uk/2014/12/02/student-bags-3-000-in-freebies-due-to-amazon-glitch/
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...n-goods-sent-to-him-by-mistake_n_6260914.html
http://thenextweb.com/uk/2014/03/31...ed-deliveries-six-months-50-prime-thereafter/
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/amazon-order-mix-christmas-bonanza-briton-140323156.html#aBdgXL4
http://consumerist.com/2014/12/03/a...with-return-depot-gives-him-5k-in-free-stuff/
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/news/3rd-day-of-christmas-amazon-sent-to-me-1.1789927
The newspapers don’t seem to realize they’ve been suckered!
Clever how Amazon made it so the goods were all being "returned" to make people think the "original customers" were getting their "money back" for "stuff they didn't want". All the items apart from the Cosatto Supa Baby Buggy, Draper leaf blower and Brabantia ironing board (actually perhaps not the ironing board) smack of: "Let's make sure all the stuff we "accidentally" send is what a student would want."
£3600 for newspaper space, now that is an absolute steal of a bargain, much cheaper than paying for advertising. Amazon have even managed to get a list of the particular products on a newspaper article I saw, many of which are currently discounted. Wow, just wow, that is just genius cheeky.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...s-from-Amazon-because-of-computer-glitch.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...including-TV-tablet-sent-computer-glitch.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6142803/Student-gets-3k-gifts-free-in-Amazon-glitch.html
http://money.aol.co.uk/2014/12/02/student-bags-3-000-in-freebies-due-to-amazon-glitch/
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...n-goods-sent-to-him-by-mistake_n_6260914.html
http://thenextweb.com/uk/2014/03/31...ed-deliveries-six-months-50-prime-thereafter/
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/amazon-order-mix-christmas-bonanza-briton-140323156.html#aBdgXL4
http://consumerist.com/2014/12/03/a...with-return-depot-gives-him-5k-in-free-stuff/
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/news/3rd-day-of-christmas-amazon-sent-to-me-1.1789927
The newspapers don’t seem to realize they’ve been suckered!
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