Today was the day when (seemingly accidentally) Amazon UK put up numerous MP3 albums up for sale for 29 pence. Rumour has it that Amazon intended to make each track in the albums to be valued at 29p but made a cock up and set the album to that price. UK bargain hunters at hotukdeals.com where directed to the ‘deal’ by Master deal sniffer HedgyHoggy who initially spotted that Lilly Allen’s album was at the bargain price of 29p. The game was afoot! Soon numerous other albums at 29p were uncovered including the likes of Iron Maiden and Led Zeppelin. People started buying the cheap albums left right and centre. Though I myself stopped at 6 albums many others went on and on until their credit Cards were stopped because of suspicious activity. Some downloading 13, 16 and even 44 albums before the prices returned to normal.

Sadly someone at Amazon UK as almost probably got the sack out of this and Amazon have lost £10,000s. Well the 2nd part isn’t so sad.