I ordered a DVD from Amazon a few months ago that had not yet been released but they were taking pre-orders (it's of a BBC program that I can't download from iTunes) and so I put my order in. While I assume there was a statement to the effect that the actual price that I would be charged, when it was shipped, would be based on the price at that time, if it were lower, but that no matter what, I would only be charged the lowest price quoted during the time that the DVD was on pre-order status, I don't recall actually reading that disclaimer.
Anyway, I got the DVD yesterday with the invoice showing that the price had indeed dropped 83 cents since I ordered it and that was the price that my credit card was being charged.
Well today, I get an email from Amazon stating that there was another adjustment to the final price because apparently during the pre-order period the price had actually been lower for a period of time and Amazon's guarantee meant the I would only be charged that lowest amount, which was ONE CENT lower, so I've been told to expect a credit on our credit card for the ONE CENT. I wonder how much that's going to cost them to process?
It's like the time we got a rebate check from our health insurance company for something that we had already paid for but the amount that we were told that we were responsible for had been miscalculated and we had paid the doctor too much and so they sent us a paper refund check for TWO CENTS. My wife said she would never take a check like that to the bank and cash it since it would too embarrassing. I'm not that proud so I had no problems handing that check to the bank teller and having it deposited in our savings account, if for no other reason then to stick the insurance company, not to mention the bank, for something as lame as the cost of processing a TWO CENT refund and do so by mailing me a paper check (hell, they had already lost money the instant the envelope was stamped and dropped at the post office).
OCU
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