Comments on: Amazon freezes sales via DBD in wake of Omnibus Dome

By: Rob J.

Rob J. — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:11:47 +0000

@Jon Warren — I was thinking that the Dome reference was actually to “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,” given how voraciously and competitively people were trying to buy these Glitch items as fast as they could.

By: Nick Marino

Nick Marino — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:57:16 +0000

I had this dream last night that I took advantage of the pricing glitch on Amazon over the weekend, and I ordered myself two giant hardcover volumes of some sort of Jack Kirby anthology / retrospective series for like $16 a piece. Then, I come home a couple days later and there’s a suspiciously small box from Amazon sitting at my door. I open it, and inside is a copy of Astonishing X-Men: Gifted, and it says I was charged $8.00 for it!!! Then, lower on my invoice, it says my two Jack Kirby volumes will be shipped soon, and it lists their prices at $60-something a piece. I get all furious and call Amazon and complain about it.

Point is, I woke up real stressed out from that. I didn’t even order anything from Amazon in real-life and I’m sweating it!!!!

By: Charles knight

Charles knight — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:25:30 +0000

“comics archivists” – fuck no, I was planning to sell them on ebay.

By: Allyn

Allyn — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:54:33 +0000

“Omnnibus Dome?” I’m not getting the reference.

“Teapot Dome.” The -gate suffix doesn’t work in this case; it doesn’t look like anyone did anything illegal. -Dome does work, though, because the snafu resulted in profits and windfalls.

By: Amazon, Opportunity Costs, and $25 « Half Eaten Sandwich

Amazon, Opportunity Costs, and $25 « Half Eaten Sandwich — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:59:38 +0000

[...] some were able to buy $100 Marvel Omnibus for $8.24! For more details check out Bully’s or The Comics Beat’s rundown of the [...]

By: John Warren

John Warren — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:09:18 +0000

“Omnnibus Dome?” I’m not getting the reference.

I thought that since the ’70s it was required that all these things be called “-gates” of one kind or another. :-)

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Techland Roundup: The Daily Dose; Technology News 3/10/10 - Techland - TIME.com — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:20:54 +0000

[...] the Chipmunks 3. (Throws something across room.) Shame on you, 20th Century Fox. Amazon gets cold: The Beat is reporting that in light of this week's over-sell snafoo, Amazon has frozen sales of all books distributed by [...]

By: Nat Gertler

Nat Gertler — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:23:55 +0000

And not all orders were canceled; even yesterday, they were still sending out some of even the $8.24 Ominibi which had been ordered during the weekend.