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Originally Posted by gogglev

Granted my knowledge is limited to the contract law I learned in my engineering courses years ago and I am certainly not a lawyer, but to the best of my knowledge, it is a legality issue; though a civil one and something thats often difficult to enforce. Back end mistakes are indeed very common, but you see businesses handle it one of two ways. They eat the losses, or they cancel the order in instances where maybe a 2000 dollar item is listed for a dollar. What they legally can't do is force you pay the more than the amount in the original transaction. I believe when you pay an invoiced amount, you are essentially in a legal binding contract for both parties. Anyways, I certainly don't think they are trying to defraud anyone (thats Sentai Kings opinion) but I do question the legality of how they try to enforce some things.

That's something I think we're going to agree to disagree on, then. I talked with one of the office lawyers at lunch who opined that the situation is unfortunate (and possibly questionable) but not patently illegal.