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Price mistakes happen all the time and your orders get cancelled...


It doesn't look like a mistake if you see the pricing history. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+5150+%40+...


Anyone knows why the price bounced from $99 to $770 in 2011?


It seems to use Newegg and Amazon as sources. A common trick is to just leave an item at high price when you don't have it in stock so no one would buy it. If someone did buy your item at that price you could cancel the transaction or go out of your way to get hold of the item.

So I guess at that point they were the only ones with the item "in stock".




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