The reseals eMAG they were very much in demand last night when the online store displayed a price of only 1 leu for a multitude of products that apparently erroneously had a 99% discount applied to the base price. As you can see from the images of this article, a multitude of products available in the retailer's offer had erroneous discounts applied, in some cases of 99%, and this brought them a final price of only 1 leu and it seems like a multitude of people visiting the online store's website took the opportunity to buy them.
resealed eMAGs sold for 1 leu
According to the general director of eMAG, Iulian Stanciu, the total value of the products ordered by customers is over 1 million lei and all those who took advantage of the error will receive their orders at the store's expense. This is the first time that there are such problems for resealed eMAGs, but not the first time when the store is forced to honor orders at a loss due to apparent errors in the system that sets the prices, a few years ago a multitude of customers took advantage of a similar mistake to buy televisions at ridiculous prices, the publicity generated on the side of the subject, bringing a lot of attention to those from eMAG, something that happens even now.
For a store like eMAG, the loss generated by the sale of these resealed products at the price of only 1 leu, in some cases, is covered by the profit generated by Black Friday, so in the end they win a lot of free advertising. If you are wondering what were the most interesting products at the price of only 1 leu, well we are talking about terminals Samsung Galaxy S4, washing machines, switches, razors, or even TV, some products having prices approaching the value of 1000 euros, so that some customers will be able to say that they bought smartly on Black Friday and benefited from real discounts.
UPDATED: Here is the official position of the store regarding the milling generated for resealed eMAGs, and according to them the total value of the products ordered is 1.157.200 lei, the most apparent discount being applied to a Dell Studio XPS Duo 12 Ultrabook whose price of 4.796 lei was reduced to only 3 lei.
Bucharest, November 24, 2014 – eMAG, the largest online retailer in the region, experienced an error uploading prices for certain resealed products on Sunday, November 23, between 20.30:22.59 and 1:8. The error resulted in selling prices between XNUMX lei and XNUMX lei for a wide range of products.
For example, a Samsung Galaxy S4 phone could be bought at the price of 1 lei, reduced from 1.449 lei, a LED Smart TV 3D Philips, 117 cm, Full HD was reduced from 4.246 lei to 3 lei, Ultrabook Dell Studio XPS Duo 12 has been reduced from 4.796 lei to 3 lei.
"Customer satisfaction is very important to us and we will honor absolutely all orders, and the products will be shipped quickly," declares Iulian Stanciu, general manager of eMAG.
The total value of the wrong discounts is 1.157.200 lei. The biggest discount, of 11.190 lei, was applied to a network equipment, a Cisco Catalyst 2960 switch, which could be bought at the price of 8 lei compared to the list price of 11.190 lei. During the two hours that the products were listed with the wrong prices, from 21:00 PM to 23:00 PM, a total of 730 products were ordered.
