Amazon UK Sellers Hit by Nightmare Before Christmas

Amazon UK suffered from a devastating glitch last night that listed prices incorrectly for over an hour. The glitch was with RepriceExpress software that keeps Amazon’s prices the lowest, that somehow experienced a meltdown and listed expensive products as low as a penny. The glitch was reported to Amazon by one of its main competitors.

"We got a call from a competitor to say ‘do you realize all your listings at a penny?’ By the end of the hour, we had 1,600 orders," he said. "People were buying 10, 50, 100 copies of everything. It is £50,000, £60,000, £100,000 of stock; we can’t even work it out."

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