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[Hong Kong Blue]

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Quote[/b] (Napster @ Dec. 15 2006,13:18)]I'm afraid the law is on the company's side. The price is only an offer to treat. The deal/contract is not completed until money is accepted. The company can choose not to accept the money and therefore not complete the contract.

My flatmate purchased one this morning and has since printed a copy of his bank statement showing the £150 going from his bank, is this now legally acceptable?

Why are you asking Napster?

 

[Hong Kong Blue]

Quote[/b] (Firestorm @ Dec. 15 2006,14:01)]HKB  , Nothing to do in your lunch break either eh  

I'm classing that as professional research!

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

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Quote[/b] (Napster @ Dec. 15 2006,13:18)]I'm afraid the law is on the company's side. The price is only an offer to treat. The deal/contract is not completed until money is accepted. The company can choose not to accept the money and therefore not complete the contract.

My flatmate purchased one this morning and has since printed a copy of his bank statement showing the £150 going from his bank, is this now legally acceptable?

Why are you asking Napster?

Hmm... if they've already taken the cash, that makes their job of proving it was a mistake of fact at law a fair bit trickier...

Terrible PR for them, in any event!

Matt

 

[EastStandBlue]

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Quote[/b] (Napster @ Dec. 15 2006,13:18)]I'm afraid the law is on the company's side. The price is only an offer to treat. The deal/contract is not completed until money is accepted. The company can choose not to accept the money and therefore not complete the contract.

My flatmate purchased one this morning and has since printed a copy of his bank statement showing the £150 going from his bank, is this now legally acceptable?

Why are you asking Napster?

First post i read which explained the situation involving the contract being completed when the money is handed over...

 

[Firestorm]

Quote[/b] (Hong Kong Blue @ Dec. 15 2006,13:59)]

Quote[/b] (Firestorm @ Dec. 15 2006,13:45)]IIRC entering into a contract with a minor.........

Nash V Inman 1908

Link

Nash v Inman [1908] apparently.


Edit - I see you've beaten me to it as I stopped to read it!

to coin my favourite phrase of late

Google is your friend

trouble is you get invited to loads of quiz nights on the back of it , but only once by each person..........

 

[Firestorm]

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Quote[/b] (Napster @ Dec. 15 2006,13:18)]I'm afraid the law is on the company's side. The price is only an offer to treat. The deal/contract is not completed until money is accepted. The company can choose not to accept the money and therefore not complete the contract.

My flatmate purchased one this morning and has since printed a copy of his bank statement showing the £150 going from his bank, is this now legally acceptable?

Why are you asking Napster?

First post i read which explained the situation involving the contract being completed when the money is handed over...

I don't think the money has been handed over yet....

The bank will have shown it on the statement / account as part of the ensuring there are sufficient funds in the account process.

years ago you could rack up DR card purchases above what was in your account because the shops were not connected to the banking system, these days the banks update transaction by transaction so they do not authorise anything beyond an individuals spending capacity.

I don't think the transfer will not go to the retailers bank that quick

 

[Napster]

Quote[/b] (Firestorm @ Dec. 15 2006,14:11)]I don't think the transfer will not go to the retailers bank that quick

Nor do I.

 

[EastStandBlue]

Well i've got my fingers crossed... If it goes through we got a Brand new TV to watch the footy on

 

[Hong Kong Blue]

Regardless of the technicalities of when acceptance is deemed to take place, if I'd an arguable case I'd be threatening them with legal action if they tried to fob me off.

A 42" plasma TV costs, what about £1,500? It'll cost Woolies that to defend any claim. Cheaper (and better PR) for them to settle than to fight.

 

[Shrimp_Stu]

Check here for details - take a look through this thread

Chaps sorry to say that it looks like a misprice and they can pull back on this offer:
"Item cancelled by us at your request, or as notified by us (Email, SMS, Account Message or Phone Call)."

 

[Firestorm]

Quote[/b] (Shrimp_Stu @ Dec. 15 2006,14:28)]Check here for details - take a look through this thread

Chaps sorry to say that it looks like a misprice and they can pull back on this offer:
"Item cancelled by us at your request, or as notified by us (Email, SMS, Account Message or Phone Call)."

Jesus.....

just looked at that message board and its initially full of people rushing to take advantage of the error (no problem there ) and then telling the site mods to delete the thread so that their order can go through !Once the orders have been cancelled they then blub to watchdog and anyone else they can think of because they got rumbled.

have a punt, if it comes off, well done, if it doesn't, move on........

 

[Shrimp_Stu]

Quote[/b] ]Jesus.....

just looked at that message board and its initially full of people rushing to take advantage of the error (no problem there ) and then telling the site mods to delete the thread so that their order can go through !Once the orders have been cancelled they then blub to watchdog and anyone else they can think of because they got rumbled.

have a punt, if it comes off, well done, if it doesn't, move on........

That happens all the time - there are so many pricing errors - some retailers honour them others don't.

Always keep an eye out on those forums for any potential steals.......

 

[Firestorm]

thanks for the heads up...

I would imagine sites like that make it easier for the shops to moitor their mistakes too.

If say 10 or 15 of those tv's went through in a couple of hours they may not have noticed

a couple of thousand / multiple orders (someone ordered 4 !! ) and the alarm bells would ring pretty early , allowing them to cancel the lot

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Firestorm @ Dec. 15 2006,14:50)]If say 10 or 15 of those tv's went through in a couple of hours they may not have noticed

a couple of thousand / multiple orders  (someone ordered 4 !! ) and the alarm bells would ring pretty early , allowing them to cancel the lot

One should never underestimate people's greed or stupidity...

 

[Usual_Suspect]

Ordered cancelled bu Woolies.

 

[EastStandBlue]

Indeed, My flatmates order was promptly cancelled

No Widescreen TV for the flat then...