{"id":346123,"date":"2010-02-21T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002374"},"modified":"2010-02-21T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T16:07:59","slug":"barnes-noble-offers-great-battlefield-bad-company-2-deal-then-changes-its-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/346123","title":{"rendered":"Barnes &amp; Noble Offers Great Battlefield Bad Company 2 Deal, Then Changes Its Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/battlefield-bad-company-2-thumb-200x142-37247.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/bn_cancel-thumb-600x690-37246.png\">         <\/p>\n<p>For a brief, shining moment, Barnes &#038; Noble let customers pre-order the upcoming PC game <a href=\"http:\/\/badcompany2.ea.com\">Battlefield Bad Company 2<\/a> for $19.95, far below the retail price. Gamers were skeptical, but placed orders anyway. Their skepticism was well-founded, since the retailer caught the error and canceled all of the mistaken pre-orders&#8230;nine days after the deal began to go viral.<\/p>\n<p>Reader Richard writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Back on 2\/8, B &#038; N had a hot deal going for the upcoming EA video game Battlefield Bad Company 2, 19.95 for the sale of the game.  Often times when you see a new gaming being offered well below retail price like this, it brings to mind a too good to be true worry. Naturally  Barnes &#038; Noble delivers by affectively canceling every single order of Bad Company due to their own apparent Price Mistake.<\/p>\n<p>The game was featured on many bargain sites and gained much interest, but today, B &#038; N began a mass mailing informing honest customers that they would not be honoring the price they offered. Too good to be true or not, it&#8217;s poor practice and made even worse in that they waited 9 days from when this deal was making the rounds on the internet to inform customers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a common urban legend that retailers are obligated to keep their end of the deal when pricing errors like this occur. They are not. But it&#8217;s still very disappointing that it took Barnes &#038; Noble this long to catch the error.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bn_cancel.png\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/21\/bn_cancel.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"690\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slickdeals.net\/forums\/showthread.php?t=1855797\">Battlefield Bad Company 2 (PC) Preorder $23<\/a> [Slickdeals]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a brief, shining moment, Barnes &#038; Noble let customers pre-order the upcoming PC game Battlefield Bad Company 2 for $19.95, far below the retail price. Gamers were skeptical, but placed orders anyway. Their skepticism was well-founded, since the retailer caught the error and canceled all of the mistaken pre-orders&#8230;nine days after the deal began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}