A technology company recently did a year end sale on some high value retail items such as laptops and desktops as well as some portable media devices. A lot of these devices were on sale for half the price, so you can imagine "open box" iPods being sold for $150.00 ... still as good as brand new if you really think about it.
The sad part comes when the pricelist was given out to the public via Internet mail. it turns out that first dibbs went to the employees of the company who ransacked the stocks of computers and other items of technology. Employees could reserve orders while the public could not. Now I have nothing against serving the employees first - they deserve this 100%. But why do they have to release the pricelist of products that were already sold out?
Should they have given out the pricelist at all? It sure is a bummer to get the public excited about the deals and then take it back. Maybe they should have issued these prices AFTER the employees got first dibbs so that they won't have to include the really great bargains.
This isn't really a documentation error. It's more of a timing issue.
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