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Given that it must have been about ten years since that Kodak fiasco where the online retailer honoured the price does anyone seriously think these places haven't covered their arses since? The very fact you've started a thread asking what the chances of you getting it at this price are indicates you know very well this is a cock up.
Seriously, if they were genuinely selling them at that price do you think you would be able to order one at all? you don't think Tesco staff would have rinsed them of stock as soon as they got wind of it?
Seriously, if they were genuinely selling them at that price do you think you would be able to order one at all? you don't think Tesco staff would have rinsed them of stock as soon as they got wind of it?
Randy Winkman said:
That used to be the case when people bought things in places called "shops". Now I'm not so sure.
That was never the case. A shop could refuse to sell an incorrectly priced item, since no contract has been formed until you actually pay for it. Once the error is pointed out though, the shop should correct it or remove that item from the shelf since to leave it on display knowingly showing an incorrect price could be taken to be false advertising.tank slapper said:
Randy Winkman said:
That used to be the case when people bought things in places called "shops". Now I'm not so sure.
That was never the case. A shop could refuse to sell an incorrectly priced item, since no contract has been formed until you actually pay for it. Once the error is pointed out though, the shop should correct it or remove that item from the shelf since to leave it on display knowingly showing an incorrect price could be taken to be false advertising.
Oakey said:
Given that it must have been about ten years since that Kodak fiasco where the online retailer honoured the price
IIRC this was muddied by the fact that that a) they'd shipped the units, and b) the price error wasn't obvious, it was cheap for the unit but not an obvious decimal point error.With my massive cynic head on I do wonder how many units Tesco will ship at actual price to people who knew they were chancing it but just keep it anyway for the proper price.
I wonder whether if those that discovered these mistakes on websites kept quiet and just ordered one the retailer would realise there was a problem, and might be in a better position to fulfill the order as there wpould be a lot less to cancel.
If however people take to Twitter and Facebook etc and then people order 10 or 50 units each there is no way the retailer will honour the deal.
If however people take to Twitter and Facebook etc and then people order 10 or 50 units each there is no way the retailer will honour the deal.
There was a similar thing to this last year on the website of a not very LITTLE mail order company, one that WOOD drop very thick catalogues through your door. They advertised a PS3 for £20.99 'by mistake' on their website.
Well a good friend of mine works for an advertising company and strangely, they were contacted by the mail order company a couple of weeks before this stating that there would be an event where there would be massively increased traffic to their website in the technology area and would they like to increase their advertising.
So I think it's safe to assume that as they don't lose any money by these 'mistakes', they may very well be staged in order to get increased traffic and advertising revenue. Clever. If you think of the speed at which the email get shot around the country when there is one of these 'mistakes' the site traffic increases must be phenomenal.
Well a good friend of mine works for an advertising company and strangely, they were contacted by the mail order company a couple of weeks before this stating that there would be an event where there would be massively increased traffic to their website in the technology area and would they like to increase their advertising.
So I think it's safe to assume that as they don't lose any money by these 'mistakes', they may very well be staged in order to get increased traffic and advertising revenue. Clever. If you think of the speed at which the email get shot around the country when there is one of these 'mistakes' the site traffic increases must be phenomenal.
Cheese Mechanic said:
Amazing how it's always a "computer error" - not a human error because they typed in the wrong information.Podie said:
Cheese Mechanic said:
Amazing how it's always a "computer error" - not a human error because they typed in the wrong information.If Tescos IT can make errors like that I really don't think I could trust shopping there - if it's a human error, that would be quite OK: we can all live with that. Is Tesco run by iRobots?
Podie said:
Cheese Mechanic said:
Amazing how it's always a "computer error" - not a human error because they typed in the wrong information.
king christ;Oakey said:
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