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Amazon gives away $227 million… sort of

May 3, 2006 on 5:42 pm | In amazon, funny | 6 Comments

So, it seems that an error has given this Amazon customer some extra spending cash.

and by “some” I mean a little over 227 million dollars. Either that, or this guy has some great friends/family!

Update: This image was found on Flickr, you can click on it to go to the original. I don’t know if it has been photoshoped, or edited in anyway.

photoshop

Comment by how i love — May 4, 2006 #
this is awesome! I hope this guy used it!

Comment by matty007 — May 4, 2006 #
They probably did not allow him to use it

Comment by joelw — May 4, 2006 #
No one else noticed the missing comma in the dollar amount?

Not too difficult to edit HTML, view it in your browser, type in the Amazon address and take a screenshot…

I call bullshit.

Comment by cdahlkvist — May 4, 2006 #
The missing comma could be considered evidence for the page’s validity – a faker would have inserted it, but Amazon’s programmers, not expecting to deal with dollar amounts above $999,999, probably only insert a single comma in their formatting scheme.

Comment by Eje — May 28, 2006 #
“Amazonâ€™s programmers, not expecting to deal with dollar amounts above $999,999, probably only insert a single comma in their formatting scheme.”

Um, that’s not how programming works. I don’t know what language this particular page is written in but in most languages you don’t have to add each comma individually to large numbers – you just specify with or without commas when you specify the print formatting…

Comment by sam — May 28, 2006 #