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You may know Fi and I ordered X-box 360’s, in good faith, from Tesco online for the princely sum of £35. It would appear that there may be a loophole in how tesco direct works.

Every so often they spider their competitors websites extracting the prices of the stuff they sell. If they find a competitors selling it cheaper they take 1p off the price and then lower the price a further 5% to make them competitive (from what I can find out online). It would appear that yesterday Virgin accidentally dropped some prices on the site – the x-box 360 one was live on the site for around an hour, it would appear that tesco were served with a number of incorrect prices during this period!

This led to Tesco dynamically pricing and advertising x-box 360’s for about £35.

So if any anyone ever wants a similar system developed – as they’re quite common these days – remember they’ll need to put a minimum price on each item – so if a competitor gets wise (accidentally messes up their pricing) they don’t lose out massively.

I’m gutted that the Equator steering group does not share my vision for our Christmas campaign. My idea is that we dress monkeys up like santa strap them into remote controlled jetpacks fitted with lasers and we battle them to the death – its kinda like a hi-tech conckers. The last monkey standing wins? I just can’t understand why anyone would have a problem with this idea?

Was sitting last night trying to work out what to do – girlfriend at work and had little interest in watching football. So instead I started to go round and find stuff out about the Watchmen Film which is due out soon.
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