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Lisle (LIS58350) CAP WRENCH 86MM
List Price: $131,072.00
Price: $7.99
You Save: $131,064.01 (100%)

http://www.amazon.com/Lisle-LIS58350-CAP...rds=lisle+58350

 

[MrQuackers]

That's a huge savings over military pricing

 

[SaturnIonVue]

A bargain at twice the price!

 

[hemitruck]

pretty funny.

 

[default]

Amazon glitches tend to go both ways and happen more than you would think. Sometimes you see stuff where it was actually a high dollar item mislisted at a silly low price. If you buy something like that, once it ships they cant do anything about it. Got a case of nuke grade 3M duct tape for $26 that way once, the wide red stuff, supposed to be that much per roll.

 

[JethroBodine]

Wow! and I thought $65,000 was a good deal.

 

[d00df00d]

131,072 is a nice clean number in hexadecimal (20,000). Looks like some programmer made a mistake.

 

[Corvette Owner]

Originally Posted By: d00df00d
131,072 is a nice clean number in hexadecimal (20,000). Looks like some programmer made a mistake.


WOW, who knew, bet you are right!

 

[d00df00d]

I''m moderately good at recognizing certain powers of 2.

131,072 was a particularly important number to me because it was the number that showed up when I first got my hands on a computer with 128 MB of RAM.

 

[Donald]

I have seen brake rotors where the item weight was 30 and the shipping weight was 9.

I was wondering if they had an automated way to determine if the packer slipped 2 of an item into a box rather than 1 by expected weight of the package. I did once receive 2 saw blades when I ordered 1. So I am not sure if they do any weight checking.

 

[Donald]

Originally Posted By: d00df00d
131,072 is a nice clean number in hexadecimal (20,000). Looks like some programmer made a mistake.


Typically money is never stored in hex on a computer. On IBM mainframes its in packed decimal. Other systems in integer. Never in hex.

 

[PandaBear]

Originally Posted By: Donald
Originally Posted By: d00df00d
131,072 is a nice clean number in hexadecimal (20,000). Looks like some programmer made a mistake.


Typically money is never stored in hex on a computer. On IBM mainframes its in packed decimal. Other systems in integer. Never in hex.


Everything is stored in binary, and how you interpret it is your business.

Most likely the programmer / engineer / staff had a bug in certain corner cases and enter volume in hex into the price, or something like that, didn't realize the mistake till something was triggered and a price drop / increase kicks in.

I once saw a Target store brand contact solutions (2 pack) selling for $17 when the name brands were $12, and store brands typically sell for $5. I ask the employees, and they couldn't do anything about fixing it. The next week it drop back to $4 instead.

This is the biggest problem of relying on machine / automation / computer to do the job of a human. You can easily make mistakes and no one notice.