One is legal, the other is not.

Still no update?

Did they get back to you?

Supposedly they will be getting back to me today. We’ll see.

Damn right it’s fair game. It’s up to the seller to plug up the holes in their system, and if they exist, then it’s acceptable to use these “exploits”/”holes”/”mistakes”. It’s like the exploits that have been documented in Eve Online (the banking misdeeds and guild corruption and betrayal). You might ask what that has to do with The Hut, but it’s the same thing; it may not have been intended (or publicly acknowledged as intended), but these holes/exploits are part of the game, part of the system, and until that’s changed, rules made/altered and enforced, then they are there to be used.

I only have so much money for things, and I’ll go for the cheapest option I can find. When publishers like Activision jack up prices of games as part of an experiment to see if they can get away with it, I get frugal.

I’d have thought they had some automatic way of detecting sales and bumping up prices if there are not many in stock, although since they don’t show stock numbers I have no idea why, so perhaps the reason that things are popular is it.

I’d like to hear the followup! Will make me go to Amazon more if it is so.

Well, I still think that’s fair game. Presumably they intended those coupons to have that functionality for their international customers, but the exploit was probably unintentional.

The pressure is on them to not make mistakes like that, not us to ignore it when they do.

I assume adam means that business with switching currencies to trick the store into giving you a discount in one currency on a purchase in another. It is pretty clearly an exploit. Nowhere near as dickish as putting all the prices up after advertising and sending out a discount code, though.

Really? Using a coupon that they email to me and ask me to spread around in a way that it is completely allowed to be used?

I don’t think sending paying customers to their web site is exploiting them.

I will do on Monday, after speaking to The Hut.

That isn’t a “sale” or special offer, it’s misrepresenting of their prices. Those who know of the vouchers, get to buy at normal price, while those who don’t spend more than normal. Devious is an understatement and I’m glad I’ve never shopped with them.