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e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Mon, 29 Nov 1999 22:46:26 GMT
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The law on this form of commerce has not been tested in the UK as yet. Some of
you may remember the news splash a few weeks ago when an electrical
manufacturer put £300.00 TV's up for £3.00.
Normally when you try to purchase something in a shop you make "an offer to
treat" which the shopkeeper then accepts and you have a contract.
In this case the retailers defence was twofold :
That an automatic e-mail acceptance of your order was not an acceptance of
your offer to treat. (very dodgy legal ground apparently)
That it was 'obvious' that a mistake had been made and to try to proceed with
a purchase was to try to defraud.
The bottom line was that despite all the bad publicity no one got their TV's
for £3.00 (even the guy who had ordered 5000)
Cheers
Alan Kershaw
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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| (...) I am sympathetic to the "it should be obvious that a mistake was made and to try to proceed with a purchase was to try to defraud, so we don't owe you anything" argument. In the US, you occasionally here of the government issuing too large a (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
| | | Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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| (...) This was the first thing I thought- and I've got a URL about it: -> (URL) may break. Feh.) Good luck, but I doubt they'll honour the orders- but with some of the Americans I've seen on the previous thread, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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