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We’re all familiar with the syndrome: someone forgets to fill in the price field in a database, and all of a sudden, an online store is offering products at zero dollars. The usual outcome is that a few users – or a few dozen – make the purchase, then angrily demand that the site honour the purchases they made; the site will …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    If you are stupid enough to buy a pink camera you probably are stupid enough to pay 100k for it.

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    1. Francis Boyle Silver badge
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      but shirley

      They're offering $100k to take it off their hands.

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  2. Alan Edwards
    WTF?

    Car hire companies

    I think car hire companies do something similar, to stop you booking stuff they've not actually got.

    I've had some distinctly odd results for a car for a Las Vegas trip I'm toying with, including $13,000/week for a Jeep Grand Cherokee which is probably more than the car is worth.

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    1. Asiren
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      Holmes

      Just buy a new one

      They've probably calculated that if someone is willing to pay that much for a car per week, it'd be worth buying a new car for the client!

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  3. ChaosFreak
    Happy

    Maybe there's something to it...

    Maybe its memory is full of Scarlett Johansson sex pix?

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