Yep, it looks like Amazon finally caught the mistake. I expect all orders will be cancelled eventually. Maybe a few orders would get through if they had any in stock.

what is Amazon's history on pricing mistakes?

The only one that went through for me was Dick Van Dyke Season 1 for $19.99. Cancelled was a season of Friends a few weeks ago, some classic films boxed set maybe 6 months ago, and maybe something else.

pre-orders, I believe they cancel, but they seem to honor (for the most part) price mistakes for already released items

in my experience amazon has always honored their mistakes. i've never ordered any dvds that were mispriced, but i have ordered lots of other items.....things that should have been marked for 120 and were just marked 20....they always just send everything out. i haven't even had to call to argue for it....i hope that this will be the same way!

Amazon never honors their mistakes. At least that is the way it works for me!!!

Uh-oh. I've just checked the status of my order, and The Bretts has disappeared! No e-mail notification or anything. The three books I added to the order to break the $25 mark are still on my order, estimated shipping date September 28. Wonder what'll happen next?

FWIW I have had two amazon price mistakes honored, but one of them was on amazon.co.uk, where I got I, Cladius in R2 for less than half-price, and the other was amazon.ca, when they had the last set of Danger Man (aka Secret Agent) listed for pre-order for Can$20.99 for three discs. List price for this is US$60.

I didn't get an email either. When I logged in to view my order, I saw this.

Important Messages
This order has been canceled.

Go to Your Account.

My order has vanished as well

Mine's still there. Finger's crossed...

I got an email just now finally.

Greetings from Amazon.com.

We regret to inform you that an error caused "The Bretts" to be
displayed at an incorrect price.

In accordance with our posted policies on pricing, we are unable to
offer this item for the incorrectly posted price. Therefore, we have
cancelled your order for this item. Please accept our apologies for
the delay in our notification.

At any given time, despite our best efforts, a small number of the
millions of items on our site may be mispriced. We do, however, verify
prices as part of our shipping procedures. If we discover that an
item's correct price is higher than our stated price, we will, at our
discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or
cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation. This policy is
posted in the Help section and is accessible through numerous other
areas of our web site.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

We value your business and hope that you will give us a chance to
serve you again in the future.

Sincerely,

Customer Service Department
Amazon.com

Just got the same e-mail. Oh well... I was going to sell it anyway.

I wasted 2 minutes of my life ordering this.....

I just got an email from Amazon too

- Brett

Just got the same email, i'm now 0 for 2 on getting in on deals like this.

You better cancel the rest of the order unless you want the books. But otherwise Amazon most likely will ship the remaining portion for free if you decide to keep it open.

How many days did it take amazon to figure out that something was wrong? Like 5 or so? How long did it take Circuit City to figure out something was wrong with their recent pricing error? Like 4 hours?
Amazon even has their public "sales rank" while circuit city doesn't have anything like that to alert people that something is selling at abnormally high volumes.

Amazon either is counting on people ordering multiple items, or they are insanely incompetent.

I got the e-mail as well, and what's more, there's no option to cancel the order for the three books, for which shipping will be $5.97. Needless to say, I've sent them an e-mail complaining for not even offering me the option to cancel. As the one who first posted about this, I suppose I feel a bit cheated, but never mind, I've got loads of British stuff to keep me busy, and quite a bit more coming from amazon.co.uk :-)

My order is still there also. They shipped the filler though. No email other than the notice of shipment.

I still think that no matter what the misprint is in a situation like this from an online retailer, they should always honor it until they fix it, but that's just me. I know that if I'm in a B&M retail store and see something priced wrong, 99% of the time they'll honor the price and then make the necessary correction, to me that's just good business and customer service.

Still there for me...
We shall see....

Greetings from Amazon.com.

We regret to inform you that an error caused "The Bretts" to be
displayed at an incorrect price.

shit salad! I was actually looking forward to watching it. Oh well. Another deal that didn't work for me.

Still there... Fingers crossed...

Cancelled here as well. (my) Rule of thumb: NEVER order a book or something you really don't want to get free shipping on an Amazon mis-price...I haven't had good luck cancelling the add-on that gets me over the hump.