Alas, it turned out to be a pricing error.
It could be a pricing error, or maybe Amazon is trying to get rid of that old stock for some reason.
UPDATE: Must have been a pricing error, as Amazon has now changed the price to $80.99 with a $50 mail in rebate.
This can mean giving the customer a discount on their next order if the mistake was a pricing error, or shipping the next order for free if it was a shipping or delivery mistake, or paying for damages that occurred as a result of mishandling.
"This is an isolated incident and a pricing error in this store," a Walmart spokeswoman told HuffPost in an email.
That can be a disastrous error - while competitive pricing might bring in customers, you need to be sure that your margins are sufficiently robust for you to grow the business; and once you've set prices, it can often prove difficult to raise them if you subsequently decide you've made a mistake.
A pricing error I frequently uncover as a consultant is the inability of an organization to correctly price shipping.
But for patients and doctors, losing another shred of privacy may be a reasonable price for reducing the medical errors that cost billions of dollars and kill close to 100,000 people each year.
Some even wondered whether there had been a clerical error and prices had been listed in Cuban pesos, Cuba's local currency, which is worth 24 times less than the dollar-pegged convertible peso (CUC).
