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Amazon sells Phantom Menace for 12p

People buying 200 copies a time

By Tim Richardson

Posted in Business, 27th April 2000 16:18 GMT

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Amazon.co.uk is holding an urgent internal investigation after it offered the video Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace for just 12p (20 cents). Including postage and packing and VAT, the sum total for the video comes to a bank-breaking £3. The Register understands that some people have ordered as many as 200 copies. A spokeswoman for Amazon.co.uk said she was aware of the decimal point slip and that the matter was under investigation. She wouldn't say how many had been ordered. In a statement today, the company said it would honour purchases (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/10552.html) at the knockdown price on the basis of one copy per customer. Last year e-tailer Wstore said a computer glitch was responsible for reducing the prices of some PCs from £1200 to just £12. And Argos sold Sony TVs for just £3. Related Stories WStore offers 99 per cent discount on PCs - kinda (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/9153.html) Argos welshes on three quid TV Net 'offer' (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/6632.html)