Every now and then a ridiculous price error crops up on one of the digital storefronts we all shop on these days, and this week saw a pretty insane one appear on the Microsoft Store. For a brief time, a $200+ James Bond Film Collection was mistakenly priced at just $5 - A mistake that's now being refunded and revoked by Microsoft.
We first saw reports of this pricing error earlier this week, but at the time we missed out on the deal due to the specific time that it went live. At first we were a bit bummed out that we'd missed it, but perhaps predictably, anyone who scored the deal is now seeing refunds being processed - and access to the 24-movie collection revoked.
Here in the UK, the collection is actually on sale right now at the intended discount price - coming in at £110, down from £220 or so. This is of course nowhere near as good of a price as the $5 deal, but still, it's there for now if you'd like to take advantage of it!
A good while ago now we saw a similar thing happen to an Xbox bundle in the form of this Forza Horizon pricing error - which again was refunded and revoked after players managed to get two games and a bunch of DLC for just $1. We suppose these pricing errors are usually worth a roll of the dice, just don't expect to have access to them for very long!
Did you manage to snag this deal? Have you seen a refund come through yet? Tell us how it's gone down in the comments section below.
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Some deals are too good to be true sadly. Though I'm shocked at how much that bundle costs!
£220 when you can get the better quality Blu Ray box set for around £50 which has better sound and picture quantity as well as all the included extras.
Is it all that surprising that people skipped digital movie buying for streaming when prices are like that?
Amazon had a similar thing a couple weeks ago. I claimed 4 movies they had listed as free to own after seeing a twitter post about it. They revoked them a couple days later and said I was able to purchase them if I was still interested, I wasnt.
Classic digital marketplace.
That's a very steep price for a movie collection I know it's a decent amount of films but Jesus can't imagine many people taking that up unless you have money to burn
Pretty sure that’s stealing
Welp - I got to watch From Russia With Love For free I guess. Dang.
200£ for a digital movie collection? I can watch them all for free tho if I wanted to. If I were to buy a movie, I'd buy it physically.
Honestly they should honor that price for anyone that purchased. Not the customer's fault Microsoft storefront was incorrect.
@PhileasFragg Exactly! Just another reason that physical media, is and always will be, the vastly superior way to go.
People wanting all digital have no idea the headache and frustration it will bring them.
This is why digital “rights” sucks. You pay for the license and they can rip it away from you at anytime. Yeah, the $5 deal was a mistake on their part, but forcing a return for something consumers legally purchased is ridiculous.
They should have honoured it for those that purchased. Big corporations are going to have a problem with resurgent piracy soon anyway.
@BacklogBrad Amazon again this week provided a free £5 credit to most accounts to spend on a prime video movie to buy.. only it turns out the offer was meant to be for select accounts so has now begun charging full price for all movies or TV shows bought with it. I'm glad I didn't jump on board with it.
If this was a pricing error in a shop, surely they couldn’t demand it back once you got it home? Seems dodgy to me.
Digital rights should match physical rights, particularly if they want the same copyright laws to apply to piracy.
@Grackler You wouldn't have to with physical stores no, but there's a couple points here. For starters if a pricing mistake is noticed at the till in a physical store the store is not under any legal obligation to sell you a product at the incorrect price, they can legally refuse the sale.
Secondly when you purchase items from an online store you're under their terms and conditions, which likely cover them in case of pricing mistakes. At the very least a business can cancel orders if it can be proven that a customer should have reasonably noticed that the price of the product was a mistake. In this case £5 for something that usually costs £220 is quite blatantly an error.
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