Promotions with such a limited availability are stupid. Just pisses off customers. On the other hand, those who got the deal can sell them on EBay for at least 1,000; maybe far, far more.
Just checked, none listed yet but they will be!
[Promotions with such a limited availability are stupid.]
Yes. Very stupid.
And in some places are illegal. Repercussions range from fines for every customer who lost out to charges of fraud.
It's a bait-and-switch scam that korporations feel the peasants should be subjected to. Walmart in particular ratchets up the Black Friday bait-and-switch scam despite stampede deaths at their stores.
They use it as a strategy, not just get customers in their stores, but to cause losses for their competition. They buy one or two of an item per store, planning on the rejected customers will go to the competition and ask them to price match. It puts the customer at odds with the second store who doesn't want to lose the customer but who can't absorb the losses that Walmart can.
The product manufacturers are in on it because they know exactly how much Walmart ordered and how that translates into quantity per store.
Pull the same with korporate jets, high-end cars, commercial equipment, property leases, and financing packages. Let the korporate bosses experience the same feeling of getting screwed.