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Posted: Jul 16 2011 08:41 am

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/07/16/sears.ipad/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Boo fucking hoo. These things happen all the time, and there is ALWAYS a disclaimer about how prices are subject change, limits may be imposed on orders due to availability, and offer only good while supplies last.

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Jul 16 2011 09:17 am

Yeah. Even "truth in advertising" laws have clauses that don't hold stores to pricing mistakes this huge.

Posted: Jul 16 2011 09:27 am

Fuck that bitch. Don't lose your first one.

Joined: Jun 08 2010 Location: Termina Field Posts: 1541

How could you not guess that the super cheap price is not an error? I think if she really wants one, she should pay full price.

Douche McCallister wrote:

Fuck that bitch. Don't lose your first one.

It wasn't her that lost it. It was stolen from her son.

Posted: Jul 16 2011 11:24 am

"Stolen"

Joined: Jun 08 2010 Location: Termina Field Posts: 1541

Douche McCallister wrote:

"Stolen"

Hmm, it could have actually been stolen, or her son wanted the second iPad. I tend to think the former for some reason.

Posted: Jul 16 2011 02:29 pm

Hm. Generally when mistakes like this happen, though, the retailer honors the price for those who bought it.

Still, if it went viral, I can imagine a bunch of idiots with dollar signs in their eyes trying to buy a metric fuckton to sell on ebay. So yeah.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

Fuck that, this bitch wasn't dumb. I can almost see her smug face, eyes closed, yelling at the retailer "Nuh uh, you put it up there at that price so you gotta sell it to me at that price, hmph!"

Posted: Jul 16 2011 06:03 pm

Man I can't remember the last time I walked in to a Sears.

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Jul 16 2011 09:06 pm

SoldierHawk wrote:

Hm. Generally when mistakes like this happen, though, the retailer honors the price for those who bought it.

If the price mistake was $699, and not $69, then they would probably honor it (and at least in California, when I lived there, they were required by law to).

No store is going to honor a mistake that knocks 90% off the price, however. It's clearly a mistake. And, looking at the price, very likely a prank (note the lack of the ".99" at the end).

Hey, anyone remember that $50 PS3?

Posted: Jul 17 2011 04:04 am

SoldierHawk wrote:

a metric fuckton

Awesome. I will use this and claim it as my own.

Posted: Jul 17 2011 04:33 am

UsaSatsui wrote:

Hey, anyone remember that $50 PS3?

I sure do. I ordered one, but I definitely didn't expect to actually get it. I wasn't going to raise a big stink over something that I knew was clearly a mistake.

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Jul 17 2011 10:29 am

Cpt. Fantastic wrote:

SoldierHawk wrote:

a metric fuckton

Awesome. I will use this and claim it as my own.

I already use this one a lot.

Joined: Aug 04 2009 Posts: 2515

SoldierHawk wrote:

Hm. Generally when mistakes like this happen, though, the retailer honors the price for those who bought it.

This.

At my workplace if an old offer or whatever is left up on the shelf, it has to be sold at that price.

The same should apply here. I guess cause it's online they can get away with it but still if this happened in a store and i walked up and saw a $69 or whatever it was sticker on an ipad, they have to sell me it at that price.

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Jul 17 2011 07:01 pm

Alowishus wrote:

SoldierHawk wrote:

Hm. Generally when mistakes like this happen, though, the retailer honors the price for those who bought it.

This.

At my workplace if an old offer or whatever is left up on the shelf, it has to be sold at that price.

The same should apply here. I guess cause it's online they can get away with it but still if this happened in a store and i walked up and saw a $69 or whatever it was sticker on an ipad, they have to sell me it at that price.

Remind me to hit your store with a price gun in hand.

Posted: Jul 17 2011 08:55 pm

UsaSatsui wrote:

Alowishus wrote:

SoldierHawk wrote:

Hm. Generally when mistakes like this happen, though, the retailer honors the price for those who bought it.

This.

At my workplace if an old offer or whatever is left up on the shelf, it has to be sold at that price.

The same should apply here. I guess cause it's online they can get away with it but still if this happened in a store and i walked up and saw a $69 or whatever it was sticker on an ipad, they have to sell me it at that price.

Remind me to hit your store with a price gun in hand.

Now, there's wiggle room here since it's online, but this is how I understand it was well--I think CA has a law about it. Was your store in CA, Allow?

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

LOL. Is there a California in Ireland?

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Jul 17 2011 09:18 pm

SoldierHawk wrote:

UsaSatsui wrote:

Alowishus wrote:

SoldierHawk wrote:

Hm. Generally when mistakes like this happen, though, the retailer honors the price for those who bought it.

This.

At my workplace if an old offer or whatever is left up on the shelf, it has to be sold at that price.

The same should apply here. I guess cause it's online they can get away with it but still if this happened in a store and i walked up and saw a $69 or whatever it was sticker on an ipad, they have to sell me it at that price.

Remind me to hit your store with a price gun in hand.

Now, there's wiggle room here since it's online, but this is how I understand it was well--I think CA has a law about it. Was your store in CA, Allow?

As I said, yeah, California does have a law about it. However, the law does not apply to gross errors (more than 80% off the price), nor does it apply to things beyond the store's control (someone switching a price tag).

Posted: Jul 17 2011 11:25 pm

^ AH, somehow I missed that part. I actually didn't know that about the law. Seems like a fair and prudent corollary though.

Posted: Jul 18 2011 02:56 am

I need to go into a store and demand $500 in cash so they don't "disappoint me" as a customer!

Posted: Jul 21 2011 09:14 am

I hate when people think they can buy it at the wrong price, at Radio Shack (at least in Michigan), the customer can either buy it at the corrected price or not buy it at all.

You might say "Well, wah-wah! The tag says THIS! You have to sell it to me for that!" Well, they're wrong. I can refuse to sell anything.

Joined: Aug 04 2009 Posts: 2515

UsaSatsui wrote:

Alowishus wrote:

SoldierHawk wrote:

Hm. Generally when mistakes like this happen, though, the retailer honors the price for those who bought it.

This.

At my workplace if an old offer or whatever is left up on the shelf, it has to be sold at that price.

The same should apply here. I guess cause it's online they can get away with it but still if this happened in a store and i walked up and saw a $69 or whatever it was sticker on an ipad, they have to sell me it at that price.

Remind me to hit your store with a price gun in hand.

You joke about that but people do it lol. The only thing is we have like our own price tags so you can't stick anything on it lol. Though people do lift them off other items but we have ways to combat that.

Posted: Jul 22 2011 01:00 am

This is the "customer is always right" mentality at it's finest. Because the retailer made a completely obvious mistake, some lady feels she's entitled to it, when really, she deserves jack shit. I'm all for taking advantage of a corporation's screwups, but this sense of entitlement is ridiculous. The quote at the end almost infuriates me. Paraphrased, "I thought I could trust Sears, and I'll never shop there again."

Boo fucking hoo. "I won't shop anywhere that won't let me rip them off blindly!" This lady would be better served by taking that $69, buying some metal pole, and jamming it up her fucking ass.