Except they did:
Error Creates Deals Too Good to Be True on Walmart’s Site: Certain products on the Walmart website displayed wildly low prices Wednesday morning, such as a kayak for $11 or a treadmill for $33, according to news reports and Walmart. There was even a $579 projector available for $8.85.
“We did, in fact, experience a technical error that caused some items on our website to display incorrect pricing,” said Ravi Jariwala, a Walmart spokesman.
U.S. Cellular apologizes for billing problems, says company is ready for iPhone launch: U.S. Cellular issued $10 million in customer credits in its recent fiscal quarter, as a result of billing system issues, and it lost 71,000 subscribers in the period.
The company needs the iPhone to remain competitive with other wireless carriers, and it must fix the billing system problems, said telecom industry analyst Jeff Kagan.
"Just offering the Apple products isn't enough. You have to deliver the whole package, which includes billing and service," Kagan said.
U.S. Cellular says the problems with its new system will be resolved by the end of the month and says the system was needed to replace a 15-year-old operation that lacked some of the latest capabilities.
It burns me up to hear people claim that the ACA portal was screwed up because the government can't handle things like that, since every major private-sector rollout that I've been acquainted with has had major problems.