Woah!
oh em gee.
Can this be the world's most expensive laptop? PreisCompany's pricey laptop on Amazon Certainly anyone mad enough to cough up almost £1m for this Samsung Series 7 notebook will only get themselves a machine with a standard spec: 2.2GHz Core i7 CPU, 8GB of memory, 15.6in screen, AMD Radeon HD graphics and all the other stuff …
I've just started selling a few bits and pieces on Amazon Marketplace, and whilst researching I've noticed that crazy pricing is not unusual. For example booksellers that have items listed for £100 where others are listing for £5 or so. And it's not typos, if you look at their other items they're doing it all over the place. I can't work out what the scam/point is. Maybe a mate buys it, gets a refund and the cash comes out whiter-than-white or something...
As Dermot no doubt mentioned (he pointed this out to me late last week) the prices started fairly normally at first, but have been climbing exponentially every few hours since then. They'll go up again later today, just you watch.
This isn't a simple typo, something algorythmic is changing the price based on a broken assumption.
As the original spotter of the problem I can say it is certainly a "price tracking" type of problem. In this case the idiots are tracking two of their own products - they probably meant to track the Amazon offered listing.
On Friday the Amazon one jumped from 899.99 to 999.99 and that's when the independent seller's listed items went bonkers. I notified Amazon and they were not in the slightest bit interested saying (correctly) that pricing was a matter for the sellers themselves. I think the more expensive one peaked at £1.2M before they spotted the problem, perhaps tipped off by an El Reg reader.
They have "fixed" it now so the prices are "only" 15% and 70% respectively more expensive than Amazon's own listed product (which is the highest spec model). I bought that one, from Amazon. It's very nice so far but I would not value it at a million.
Han, Tul, Set, Net, Tasot...
WON, Korean won?
KRW 937,915, as of 2012-02-03, 1400 PST, is USD 840.5019
KRW 104,212.8 = USD 933.8905
If anything is cocked up, it is maybe that the dealer got paperwork with Won currency and probably didn't bother to look up X-Rates or find out from the Korean vendor what values were used for the date of transaction.