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Or someone on slickdeals is good at marketing because that's what half the article talks about.

I'm surprised Amazon honored such a big price mistake. A few weeks ago, some Western Digital drives were priced incorrectly. About half off. Everyone got cancelations. And yes, I heard about it on front page of slickdeals...

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As a dev for Slickdeals, I can tell you this was not planned on our side haha.

Once the deal was caught by one of our mods, the site went into a frenzy. Unfortunately I was AFK during the deal, but this will go down as one of the best price mistakes of the year if not the best.

IIRC in the WD drive case the drives were on backorder so Amazon had a longer time window for cancellations.

Similar things have happened on past Prime Days / Black Fridays, I remember some smartphones (Moto?) being sold for under $3 - some were canceled, but some shipped before Amazon managed to cancel them.

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