Another OsCommerce Bug...Buy an mp3 player for everybody in the world for only $1.43

I won't tell you the site that I could be 90 billion mp3 players for a grand total of $1.43 but I am sure you can find plenty of others...

Go to your favorite online merchant that uses OsCommerce. Enter 1 item in the cart. Then update the quanity to 9999. Then update the quanity to 99999999999999999. There you go over a billion dollars worth of merchandise for almost nothing...

I wonder what the liabilities are if this is not addressed on their site in their terms and conditions

 

Mine calculates 9999 OK, 999999999999999 indeed goes back to the single unit price.

Then again, it's not like it will go unnoticed and we will actually ship 100 billion of that product.

Interesting though, I'll patch it soon.

EDIT: It's only in the cart, during check-out it calculates the correct price though it cuts down to 2147483647 (MAX Integer in MySQL)

2147483647 x PRODUCT X £94,381,906,285.65

 

You would think that they would set a MAX field value for the cart...

Mike

 

Nice find think they need some limits of the quantiy, did try one site and it calc the right price though

 

It being Open Source, 'they' is as much 'you' as anyone else. Feel free to report a bug with fix and all.

 

Some of the newer sites seem to have it fixed. Some on checkout it calculates the correct value some it lets you checkout. Maybe its related to a previous version of OsCommerce.

 

That'd be nice if I could buy that much; they'd have to ship it anyway... "I paid for it!"

 

Ha ha, that's a good one. However, it would never work as any idiot would notice this mistake and not ship you the products.