You're not going to follow it up?
After all, it was a publically advertised price.
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chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 12:04,
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I got that email
How do I go about complaining loudly?
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Angry Boss Bee I love horses, death to other animals, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 12:07,
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you can't do jack
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the RAND corporation a.k.a. Kevin Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 12:08,
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Tish
and fipsy. I don't even like James Bond that much. Ah well.
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Angry Boss Bee I love horses, death to other animals, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 12:11,
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I don't like this kind of behaviour
I think that both shop and customer should act in good faith. If one is trying to screw the other one over then they are in the wrong.
I've never heard of play.com so I don't know if they've screwed anyone over in the past but I'm guessing they're just trying to be nice.
SOCIETY IS NICE WHEN PEOPLE ARE NICE
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gronkpan, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 12:09,
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This is very true.
I think, as a personal moral choice, that it would depend on the shop for me.
However, yes, Play have always been good to me so I retract my suggestion.
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chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 12:20,
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I got done by them
they failed to deliver a game, and then their customer services' attitude was rubbish.
I'm not ordering from them again.
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wynoh kills threads by his mere presence, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 13:20,
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They're good at letting you order stuff,
the not saying anything for about 4 weeks when it was actually out of stock. Admittedly they never took my money but they did waste my time.
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mr_wicksy is.... old., Wed 15 Oct 2008, 15:06,
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a little bit of The Goat style cut and paste...
Generally speaking, in contract law terms, a retailer doesn't have to sell an item at the marked price. For there to be a binding contract there has to be an offer which has been accepted. In the context of sale of goods, the offer is made by the customer when they present the goods at the payment point (if the customer offers to buy the goods at the marked price).
The till operator is then free to accept, or reject, that offer. This means that if a till operator spots that goods have been mispriced, they can reject a customer's offer to buy at the incorrect price, and offer the customer the chance to buy at the correct price.
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Wildyles is back to rimming chimps, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 12:13,
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Fair enough
I bought a console game a while ago because it was marked at £20 (cheap for a new game but not unreasonable).
The bloke at the till said it was the wrong price and wouldn't sell it to me because I could easily have swapped the stickers.
I accepted and went to leave but before I did I popped back to the shelf and picked up two more copies marked £20 and returned to the desk to hand them to the cashier so he wouldn't get any more problems.
"Ah," He said, "Fair enough, you can have it for £20 then"
Which was nice.
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chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 12:19,
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No sorry, I don't think that's correct
I've worked in stores that have legally been forced to sell some items of furnature for a much lower price as that was the advertised price.
It's misleading the consumer.
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 12:29,
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in this case it's normally a case of either letting it go at the incorrect price or removing the item from sale, and all sales advertising for a period of 24 hours.
if memory serves...
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Just Flange, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 12:37,
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It matters not
There have been numerous examples of this in the news, with argos advertising tellies at 10% of their rrp by mistake. The site will (almost always) have small print to cover this sort of eventuality.
Alas, but them's the breaks.
However, a business man selling his yacht on ebay Germany recently was forced to sell it for 20 Euro, though it's worth 10,000, because he forgot to set a minimum price. This *is* enforceable, so watch out for bargainous ebay deals
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LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 13:01,
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