Make sure your receipt shows you got it at the special price. Contact Amazon immediately if your card was charged a different price. You need to act immediately, because they're often gone in minutes. Other customers, in the meantime, complain about other Lightning Deal errors.Īl Aponte forwarded a wacky price he found: a smart phone holder that was normally $21.25 on sale during a Lightning Deal for $21.24.Īmazon's lightning deals, in most cases, can be great buys. He has since told us he received a $100 gift card, not the laptop deal, but better than nothing. We contacted Amazon, where a spokeswoman explained the price was an error, but said the site would reach out to Terbrueggen and help him.
"I hear from Amazon about seven hours later that my order is canceled," he said, "and that I'd have to call customer service to get my money back and work with them." Terbrueggen gave his credit card and received a confirmation. The laptop, selling most days for $849 at Amazon, was slashed to just $200 during the Lightning Deal. "It came up, it was a very good price, about 70 percent off," said Terbrueggen. "I ordered it, got my confirmation and from there I thought I had it." It was an Acer Windows 8 laptop and the minute it popped up, he pounced. Joseph Terbrueggen had his eye on one item that was in the list to become a lightning deal. This is busy season at Amazon's distribution centers.Īmong Amazon's most popular items are its " Daily Lightning Deals," with drastic price cuts that may last only a few minutes. Some of the best are Amazon's daily deals that change every few hours.īut as one man learned, grabbing them is not always so easy. (Toledo News Now) - In these final days before Christmas, retailers are throwing all sorts of markdowns at us to get us to shop. Amazon features Daily Lightning Deals in a special section of its website, where hot items are for sale at extreme discounts - for a limited time.
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