Author: Stuzzi Kadent
Date: 09:57:20 09/01/02
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On September 01, 2002 at 08:52:54, Alastair Scott wrote: >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Alastair Sorry, your information is out of date, but still I hear these inaccuracies from people. Legally nowadays, the price put on goods is an offer to trade, even a starting point for negotiations. It doesn't become binding until you have paid for the goods. Kodak didn't have to pay up in the famous case for example- the freeloaders made bad publicity for them. I am not going to argue with you any more than a judge would have to, you might start at http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/ ... sorry, you are not the only one to make the same mistake.
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