Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
Nobody outsmarted Amazon. They know their system perfectly well and have been using it for many years on dozens if not hundreds of promotions just like this. Amazon knew perfectly well that there would be orders that got cancelled. It happens with every such promotion they do. They accept that as a standard part of their business model. The point of the whole thing was to get people to their site and buying things and it accomplished that(?). I expect Amazon is probably quite happy with the sales boost it gave them. They couldn't care less if along with that there were also a few extraneous codes sent out.
I'm not sure about that statement, because they cancelled their purchase didn't they? I mean I don't know how amazon works to be very honest (so i might be wrong here, please correct me), but if the purpose was to buy things over their site how would it work if these people actually deleted their purchase after getting their codes? I mean this is (probably) one of the main issues why we EU got essentially "screwed" when it comes to the promotion, and it worked "perfectly"?

I'm just saying because, if this worked "perfectly", then it means that they purposedly did all this to ruin us. I'm probably exagerating and I HOPE that this was simply a mistake on their decision (they seem to be doing that a lot lately though...), but if this fiasco was all thought up, this would be really, REALLY bad.

But this would all be fixed if we had a response already...