Homebase / Amazon Marketplace Glitch?
Archive: Online bookselling
Today we got an order for a book via Amazon's marketplace. The Homebase book number which Amazon converts into the SKU was wrong. It was off by one digit.
Never had this before and hope to never see it again. The headaches this sort of thing could create are as painful as anything I can think of in online bookselling.
Richard Evans Lee • December 27, 2005 • Reader, what do you think?
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Richard
1 · Posted by: Steven List on March 23, 2006 09:02 AM
I've got to believe that this is an incredible rarity, given the number of customers and sales that Amazon has. It's actually surprising that we don't hear about MORE glitches, given how complex their systems have to be.