Well, that would have been nice: amazon.ca held something of a fire sale, offering two very good books for 4 Dollars each. As did many others, I ordered "Lisp in Small Pieces" and Jaynes's book on probability theory. Additionally, since I was paying for shipping anyway, I ordered a full-price book as well. But, as John Philpott's order vahished, so did mine - almost: of course, Amazon was prepared to send me the full-price book anyway, with the overseas shipping and handling charges. I'm not angry that I will not get the books, of course - if I had not heard about that special offer at all, I would not have anything to be angry about either. But when I said "vanished", I mean it: Amazon dropped two out of three books from my order, without notifying me, and would have sent me a full-price book overseas; I would have paid at least twice the store price. And since I did not save their order confirmation email, I cannot even prove that the entire thing happened ... [Update] Well, better late than never - I got a notification email explaining that it was all a dream that the books had been displayed with an incorrect price.  I guess they simply ran out of stock, since the people who ordered before the madness started did get their LiSP at Small Prices.  Still, a notification email plus 10$ gift certificate is close to the right thing.