For the FOURTH timeit doesn't have to be in their terms and conditions! The law says that they do not have to honour prices that are obviously a mistake! It's fucking statutory! Alright?
One more uninformed comment on this and I'm out of here
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bob dinosaur,
Wed 19 Mar 2003, 15:38,
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It would be...if it was a price label in a real shop, but I believe that this is not the case in an electronic virtual shop thing on the interweb
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F5 F5 F5 Can't be arsed.,
Wed 19 Mar 2003, 16:55,
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Not even then. This is what "Publishing Law" has to say:"Does a bookshop make an offer when it displays a book in the window at a certain price? Suppose the price label is out of date: can a customer 'accept' the offer and claim there is a binding contract at the old price? No - because shops in those circumstances are not making binding offers, but merely offers to come in and enter negotiations - what the law calls 'offers to treat'. So if our canny customer takes the book to the till and offers the old price, it is then open to the bookseller to reject that offer and instead make a counter-offer to sell it at the correct price."
Publishing Law, Hugh Jones and Christopher Benson, Routledge 2002
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ALargeElk,
Thu 20 Mar 2003, 10:57,
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ContractIf they had taken the money from the customers ordering then that constitutes a formal contract and Amazon must honour it.
Because they hadn't taken the money...
Well that's how I see it, I think the Argos situation was different as cash was taken from credit cards and so the contract was binding.
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Wed 19 Mar 2003, 17:10,
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Because they hadn't taken the money...
Well that's how I see it, I think the Argos situation was different as cash was taken from credit cards and so the contract was binding.