Olympus E-1 Digital SLR - £98.70 (Apple Education Store) [CLOSED]

Tom2

Interestingly there's a small bit in Amateur Photographer (page 31) mentioning the E1 saying "I hope we can now have the update of the E1- it really needs it at this stage".

With PMA (Photo Marketing Association trade show) coming up in Feb that would seem a good time to announce a replacemnt.

I mention this as, although speculation on my part, it would back up (one of) Apple's argument(s) that stock isn't available, ie: the camera is techincally *current* but manufacture is being wound down so stocks are varied & waning.

It would also, I suppose, make the misprice a little more believable (but still a surprisingly low amount for a Dslr, old technology or not).

I can understand people persuing Apple after the shabby customer service and to hurry up refunds. It seems terrible, imo, that people still haven't had refunds yet.

MaGicDust_2

Same here, still no refunds at the time of writing... They have kept the money for 7 days even though they know they can never provide the goods right on the day they took the payment off my account. (Since they had noticed the misprice during the evening and took down the offer on the same day the payment was made). Maybe Apple execs should learn how to run an online store before setting up one!

deary65

There is no need to write to apple or phone ,as i said in a previous post, they are in anticipatory breach of contract. In law this means you can go straight to court.

davilown

deary65 wrote:

There is no need to write to apple or phone ,as i said in a previous post, they are in anticipatory breach of contract. In law this means you can go straight to court.

Will it not help writing to them then? never done this before so thought it would be better to try all the options before legal advice.

:beer: monster

POET_3

deary65 wrote:

There is no need to write to apple or phone ,as i said in a previous post, they are in anticipatory breach of contract. In law this means you can go straight to court.

You definately need to give apple formal , written notice of your complaint and allow them reasonable time to respond (maybe 14 days or so). If Apple then do not do anything to correct the the issue, we are required to send them a further letter of our intent to commence legal procceedings against them. Only then can we take them to court. This is why it is important that we all send them formal letters and not just phone up. I also suspect that this is why apple have refused to co-operate at all so far, because they are aware that law requires we give them another written oppurtunity to resolve things before we can do anything with the courts.

deary65

Apples defence in this matter is that there never was a contract,therefore why should they write and confirm it.Your action in court will be to prove a valid contract came into existents on or about 29/12/2005 and plead loss of bargain.

This was not an offer to the whole world but to a class of persons,you must therefor prove that you come within that class.

My advice is to prosecute proceedings forthwith.

POET_3

davilown wrote:

Will it not help writing to them then? never done this before so thought it would be better to try all the options before legal advice.

:beer: monster

As i mentioned above, it is vitally important to write to them. It is also important that the letters are well written. There have been some good templates posted earlier on, maybe you could ask permission to use one?

POET_3

deary65 wrote:

Apples defence in this matter is that there never was a contract,therefore why should they write and confirm it.Your action in court will be to prove a valid contract came into existents on or about 29/12/2005 and plead loss of bargain.

This was not an offer to the whole world but to a class of persons,you must therefor prove that you come within that class.

My advice is to prosecute proceedings forthwith.

Youve got the idea, however we will be ''suing'' for ''loss of bargain'' and not ''plead'' as you mentioned above!
I dont think that anyone would bother taking this to court if they hadnt actually met the criteria of being affiliated to an educational establishment in some way.

deary65

POET wrote:

You definately need to give apple formal , written notice of your complaint and allow them reasonable time to respond (maybe 14 days or so). If Apple then do not do anything to correct the the issue, we are required to send them a further letter of our intent to commence legal procceedings against them. Only then can we take them to court. This is why it is important that we all send them formal letters and not just phone up. I also suspect that this is why apple have refused to co-operate at all so far, because they are aware that law requires we give them another written oppurtunity to resolve things before we can do anything with the courts.

I have just read your post.Apple have taken legal advice on this matter,that is why your not getting any co-operation from them, to do so would confirm there was an agreement, and they would therefor be liable in some way.

wireframebox

Awwww knickers!

back from France and what a dissapointing welcome home!!

I knew it would get cancelled. I know it was most likely a missprice, but it's not nice to get fobbed off in this way. I won't be following this up in any way apart from a personal boycott of all things apple.