Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 05:52:54 09/01/02
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On September 01, 2002 at 02:45:43, Stuzzi Kadent wrote: >On August 31, 2002 at 17:49:32, Rajen Gupta wrote: > >>http://www.amazon.co.uk is offering chessmaster 9000 for £16.99=$25.50(with an >>additional £3.00 concession for first time customers) whereas it is $39.99 on >>http://www.amazon.com >>is this the firt time in the world that english buyers are getting a better deal >>than the americans? can anyone ever recall if this has ever happened before? >> >>rajen > >You have quoted a preorder price for 7 weeks hence. Are such preorder prices >real in the computer industry? Tell us if you receive it then. Never mind the computer industry, if you buy anything online in this country, and probably the EU, a contract is made the moment the button is pressed and the vendor is _obliged_ to sell it at the displayed price whether pre-order or not. Amazon cannot go back and say 'whoops, it was really £25.99, can we have more money please?' (Unless the price is 'perverse'; the vendor could probably get out of the contract if, for example, they omitted a zero and sold a £300 camera for £30, provided that they could show that the omission was accidental. I suspect the certainty of bad publicity would put many vendors off doing so). Also, because of the relative weakness of the dollar, 'English buyers getting a better deal than the Americans' is quite common now, as others have pointed out. Alastair
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