No To Pixmania join face book plz thx

[mikerr]

Much as I hate to add fuel to the fire:

Comapring google's cache of the page on 18th April:

http://66.102.9.132/search?q=cache:s...&ct=clnk&gl=uk

4. Prices
The prices indicated on the Site are in Pounds Sterling and in Euros and include all taxes but do not include delivery.The chosen possible delivery costs are indicated for the User during the product selection and are invoiced at the end of the order in addition to the price of the products. We reserve the right to modify our prices at any moment but will apply the current rates as indicated to you on the site at the time the order was placed.

to today's:

http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/conditions.html#cgv_4

Shows the following has been added:

4. Prices
The prices indicated on the Site are in Pounds Sterling and in Euros and include all taxes but do not include delivery.The chosen possible delivery costs are indicated for the User during the product selection and are invoiced at the end of the order in addition to the price of the products. We reserve the right to modify our prices at any moment but will apply the current rates as indicated to you on the site at the time the order was placed.

We would like to inform you that if an obviously incorrect price appears on our website (a price that is clearly too low, for example), and for whatever reason (IT bug, human error, technical error etc.), your order will be cancelled, even if it has been initially validated.

of course the easier way for them would just to have no stock of the item

Please note that we will honour your order while stock is available.

as they don't even have to give you a similar TV, just that exact model if available


Either way, you won't get a TV out of them, move along, nothing more to see here

[jim]

To be honest, that's not worded in a particularly "legalese" manner.

I reckon that's been added out of genuine frustration, two fingers up to all the people who are trying to swindle them - a direct result of what's just happened.

If anything, it's an attempt to make things clearer for people in the future, rather than a new point that they'll bring up in court. I'm sure it was already covered by the T&Cs in the first place. Mind you, since virtually nobody reads them - and certainly not people out to scam them - I'd imagine it won't make the slightest of differences in the future.

[CaptainCrash]

Much as I hate to add fuel to the fire:

Comapring google's cache of the page on 18th April:

http://66.102.9.132/search?q=cache:s...&ct=clnk&gl=uk


to today's:

http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/conditions.html#cgv_4

Shows the following has been added:

I can't be bothered wading into the HUKD thread again, but IIRC Pixmania informed buyers that the price had been deemed "vile." Needless to say this caused much hilarity (so much so that the same jokes were repeated ad nauseam), but apparently it's a term recognised under French law, to the effect that a vendor isn't contractually bound to honour an advertised price which is clearly an error.

I imagine the new addition to the T&Cs is simply to inform UK customers accordingly, rather than a retroactive squirming out of their obligations.

[Output]

So? There's legal precedent for companies to cancel the order if a genuine error has been made and people take the piss.

Which a number of people on the HUKD thread were of course doing (I'm sure I read one person say they'd ordered six!), but it's always something that people are going to try, obviously so if they get it they can sell it on for a huge profit.

[petercook7]

Doesn't sound like much of an argument to me, and certainly not a legal one. It's not pixmania's responsibility to ensure that you have enough money to buy things, and if you hadn't been trying to screw pixmania out of a TV at 1/6th of the going price, you'd've had the money to pick up your other deal.

Sure, you've been inconvenienced, but I'm afraid that it's not illegal for people to inconvenience you. Annoying, but not illegal. "I didn't enough enough money to buy something else" is not a "legal argument". Your legal argument is that pixmania broke their contract with you. And that remains to be proven, btw. And even if it is proven, as many people have said they are unlikely to be forced into selling you a product at a ridiculous price - what exactly do you think the legal system is for?

but thats also part of what ive stated.

[Kumagoro]

So how long was it up at that price. You would think the system should be able to automatically
detect anomalies like this and alert someone.

[jim]

I'd imagine they noticed when their systems showed that the most popular item on the site was a 47" TV

[Chris P]

Deleted for now.

[scaryjim]

but thats also part of what ive stated.

Yes, but you lessen the impact of your good legal point if you also add "and they stopped me getting a better deal because they had a small amount of my money". It makes you sound like a penny-pinching whiner who's more concerned about money than about the legality of their behaviour.

And that's not a good look.