News - Christmas Xbox sales set to dwarf Wii appeal

[HEXUS]

...thanks to demand for Kinect.

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[miniyazz]

While trading standards reportedly told the website that consumers should be able to pay the price stated by the firm, which in an ideal world should absorb the loss, a Tesco press officer said the store simply can't do that.

IIRC, a similar thing happened a few years ago with Amazon or some other online retailer, and the principle was that for a sale to be agreed at a price, the goods have to be offered by the company and accepted by the consumer for a sale to be agreed. And the end result of that dispute was that the goods had not been offered to the consumer at that price, it was merely a listing of what is available and their prices - so the consumer has to offer to buy them and the retailer has to agree to sell them.

This contrasts with this statement from Trading Standards.

[Terbinator]

IIRC, a similar thing happened a few years ago with Amazon or some other online retailer, and the principle was that for a sale to be agreed at a price, the goods have to be offered by the company and accepted by the consumer for a sale to be agreed. And the end result of that dispute was that the goods had not been offered to the consumer at that price, it was merely a listing of what is available and their prices - so the consumer has to offer to buy them and the retailer has to agree to sell them.

This contrasts with this statement from Trading Standards.

When i did Law @ college one of the cases you first (I) look at is based around the same principle/issue you just mentioned.

[duc]

You mean an 'invitation to treat'.

[scaryjim]

AFAIK a retailer is never under obligation to sell, and they don't have to provide any reason.

I guess the lines get a bit blurred with online purchasing as some automated systems will take payment immediately (I've had this issue before a couple of times when money's been taken out of my bank account and the etailer has then been unable to supply the goods).

[Percy1983]

It does seem to be interesting how both consoles will go with this.

To me move is just a wii remote for the PS3 where as Kinect is something new, personally I haven't bought either yet but I would guess many 'casual' gamers probably see it the same as me.