Author: Mr j smith
Date: 11:04:21 06/18/03
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On June 18, 2003 at 13:05:13, Joachim Rang wrote: >On June 18, 2003 at 12:50:24, Mr j smith wrote: > >>For those who continue to insist that Chessbase has wronged them by not >>including 2 free engines with their purchase of Junior 8, in the face of the >>plain meaning of the advertisments (which clearly state that only Deep Junior >>purchasers receive the 2 free engines ), in contrast to the ambiguous cd covers, >>and example from the real world may help show why your whining will fail to >>bring you satisfaction. >> >>Suppose that a franchise holder of Mercedes Benz automobiles places an ad in >>various newspapers and by accident the people in charge of the advertising copy >>switch prices and certain details of a Mercedes Benz with a plain old Ford >>sedan. In my example instead of selling for $50,000 the Benz was advertised for >>$10,000. > >This is a different case. No it isnt a different case. Its the same logic. An error in an ad, don't give you the right to make a >purchase based on that error. If you already bought a product and it lacks >certain assured characteristics (due to an error in the ad for example) you have >the right to demand either a fix or a compensation. > >> >>Do you think it would be both fair and legal for Mercedes Benz to honor such a >>mistake? Of course not. There is no court in the United States that would >>honor such an obvious mistake, and in the United States, there is the UCC >>(Uniform Commercial Code) which deals with such issues. >> >>From the examples of advertised print that I have seen it would seem that there >>was a mistake on the part of the advertisement department of Chessbase, which >>Chessbase almost immediately rectified. The mistake however is only >>superficial; the CD cover. A careful reading of all the ad copy clearly states >>that only Deep Junior 8 was offering 2 free engines, not Junior8. No,
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