Ethernets cards and cables

[BaDDaSS]

ffs forget it

[BaDDaSS]

ffs forget it

[Dizzie]

i'll take the 10 10metre cables for £8.99 :D

[BaDDaSS]

ffs forget it

[Dizzie]

the original price was:
(10x) 10m Patch cable £8.99

£8.99 for 10 cables.

[BaDDaSS]

ffs forget it

[Dizzie]

The original price implied differently

10 10metre cables for £8.99

[Afty]

Sweet jesus, holy mary mother of god.

May I suggest people check out Dabs, Scan or Aria where you can order this kind of gear MUCH MUCH cheaper, and more conveniently.

[Afty]

Interestingly, Dizzie is also correct, and as you failed to place an Errors and Omissions Excepted notice in your original post you are bound by law, as an agent acting on behalf of your company, to honour the prices advertised.

[WhiteKnight]

rofl

[TelexStar]

Originally posted by afty
Interestingly, Dizzie is also correct, and as you failed to place an Errors and Omissions Excepted notice in your original post you are bound by law, as an agent acting on behalf of your company, to honour the prices advertised.


Actually, i don't think you are. It's called 'an invitation to treat' as i recall.

When you go to an online computer manufacturer site (lets say Mesh or Dell for example) you might see the price of a PC there for a certain amount. When you phone up to place your order you may well find that the price is different on their system. even though you may say 'But i saw it on ur site for £x amount' they can say 'sorry, we don't want to sell it to you for £x. We will sell it to you for £z'.

It's called 'an invitation to treat'! The action your refering to i believe *is* applicable to high street retail but not e-commerce.


http://pachome1.pacific.net.sg/~jhmk/article16.html

[BaDDaSS]

So there :P:

[Dizzie]

well I thought that £9 for 10 10metre cables is a fair price seeing as my best quote so far had been just short of £15 for 10 10metre cables in a range of colours too :p:

oh well. Have to order online then

[BaDDaSS]

Are we talking patch cables? because i cant see HOW you can gte them at that price?!

[Afty]

Originally posted by TelexStar
Actually, i don't think you are. It's called 'an invitation to treat' as i recall.

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Interesting - I'll have to look into it more. I think the "invitation to treat" bit might apply because the sale wasn't completed. For example : if a full e-commerce system was in place, and the customer had already payed, it wouldn't count, but in this case, because Dizzie had to ASK, then yes it probably would.

Then you have to get into False Advertising law... not fun :) - Also if you check out just about any e-commerce site, you'll see in the small print an acronym "E&OE" which is "errors and omissions excepted". If a site *doesn't* publish this notice, it's on far stickier ground legally when someone tries to obtain a good at a price they published but don't want to sell at.

/me makes mental note to look into invitation to treat

[TelexStar]

there was a breif explaination on that link i gave.

[Cabe]

for instance

If someone walks into a shop and says I would like xyz for £p where p is lower than the owners retail price, then the owner can refuse the sale.

If however the owner says "yes, we'll deliver it on thursday", and then sends a bill for a higher amount, thats when false advertising comes into play, as there is already a contract, (verbal or otherwise) for the retailer to deliver a product for a given amount.


This is where e-commerce becomes a little muddy, as some companies dont consider the sale compete untill the goods have actually been paid for, and that an email does not constitute a binding contract. Which is why they need to push throught the Acts pertaining to e-commerce as they set out strict guiudlines what is, and is not a valid contract of sale.