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Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping
Date: 
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 15:47:16 GMT
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I agree the lawyer route is defiantly not the way to go.

However, if they admittedly made the mistake, meaning they were not hacked
of screwed by a disgruntled employee, they should have offered a more
generous compensation. Ten percent off of a sale isn't worth its weight in
shipping.  Even 20 or 50% would have made the error more forgivable.

-Nick
(a not so impressed would be consumer)



Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <3843EA8F.2FC10BBA@voyager.net>...
Paul Mison wrote:

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 legal battle brewing here too. (Insert smiley here.)

It's pretty clear now that this was an honest mistake(1). Anyone that I
*like* won't push the point. The Entertainer has offered 10% off on an
order to make up for it, from what I hear, although I have not yet
received a reply to my inquiry, or a "sorry about that" note in reply to
my order.

But you're right about some people perhaps wheeling lawyers in.

If anyone is listening and contemplating that, I respectfully request
that you not.

(1) - although I stand behind my comments that there may have been a
legitimate reason for lowering the prices on some items to the point of
almost giving them away.

--
Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com  http://my.voyager.net/lar
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NOTE: Soon to be lpieniazek@tsisoft.com :-)



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  Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
 
(...) If you live outside the UK. (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)
  Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
 
(...) That's an unreasonable attitude, imo. Their prices already seem pretty good, especially considering they're offering sets that can't be found easily elsewhere. 10% off in addition to those pretty good prices seems like more than fair - in fact (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)
  Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
 
(...) I'm posting this late at night, so I'll try to be very careful about how I frame the reply. Taking advice from an American not to wheel in the lawyers I find a bit rich. But then I see our system heading full-on into the same mistakes that the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)
  Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
 
(...) Compensation for what? For revealing one's willingness to ruthlessly take advantage of an *obvious* database problem, on a large scale in some cases? (Though, admittedly, if they were such a large and automated shipping business that no one (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)

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  Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
 
(...) It's pretty clear now that this was an honest mistake(1). Anyone that I *like* won't push the point. The Entertainer has offered 10% off on an order to make up for it, from what I hear, although I have not yet received a reply to my inquiry, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)

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