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

The_Negotiator

markabuckley wrote:

I'm sorry but this is getting rather stupid, and makes Moneysaving/Bargain type forums look very bad.

Everyone knew that this was a pricing error, myself included, so why try and hunt Apple down ? They made a simple pricing mistake and are trying to get out of it in a way that won't cost them a fortune.

I'm all for bargains, and use this site along with others every day, but come-on - a Digital SLR for 99 pounds ... discontinued model or not, thats a "mis-price" if ever I saw one.

Mark.

Not a misprice, where did you get that from? Apple states that they can't complete due to lack of availability, not a misprice.

davilown

if not, what price did you pay for it?

The_Negotiator

I paid the discounted price of £98.70 which includes the education store discount of £425.79 according to my confirmation email. I am not quite sure why people are fixated with this being a misprice, Apple themselves state they are not completing the sales due to lack of availability, as I said before.

Edit: You weren't aiming that at me were you?! Whoops! Sorry, I won't delete though since it may help people understand the issue at hand.

wireframebox

It was obviously a misprice, and most likely an incorrect percentage reduction entered by a human operator. The problem is that it all happened at the wrong time of year for Apple, when they were most likely very short on staff. They were simply not prepared to deal with the volume of orders in that timeframe with that staff level. They were also clearly not sure what to do about the aftermath which was evident from the completely inconsistent response to customers about it.

The_Negotiator

Obviously a misprice in whose opinion? Yours? Well it is possible yet the only OFFICIAL response from Apple is that they have no availability of the E-1, not that it was a misprice, for the 3rd time.

Unfortunately neither my opinion nor your opinion matters in this case but the official response from Apple on the 3rd.

harryc_3

hi everyone ... this will be my last post on this issue ....at least until I get a response from apple....

cheers everyone

wireframebox

The_Negotiator wrote:

Obviously a misprice in whose opinion? Yours? Well it is possible yet the only OFFICIAL response from Apple is that they have no availability of the E-1, not that it was a misprice, for the 3rd time.

Unfortunately neither my opinion nor your opinion matters in this case but the official response from Apple on the 3rd.

That was the only response that they could have given that would justify them cancelling the order based on their own T&C. It will also be the only response they will give aslong as people persist in taking legal action.

Please don't forget about the early phone calls to customer services, where call centre supervisors was quoted as stating in a panic that that it was a missprice and that orders would be cancelled.

This is my last comment on this matter, I consider it closed. :money:

Thirdfox

wireframebox wrote:

It was obviously a misprice...

On the invoice it stated that there was a discount of €670.

Also this offer was made available to both U.K. and Irish students.

Finally Apple themselves have not stated that it was a misprice but a stock issue.

Not so obvious in my mind

Thirdfox

wireframebox wrote:

That was the only response that they could have given that would justify them cancelling the order based on their own T&C. It will also be the only response they will give aslong as people persist in taking legal action.

As I have stated earlier exemptionary clauses don't apply when a misrepresentation has been made (either price or stock). So clause 2.6 doesn't affect students who purchased the camera. (in my understanding)

wireframebox

Thirdfox wrote:

On the invoice it stated that a discount of €670.

Also this offer was made available to both U.K. and Irish students.

Finally Apple themselves have not stated that it was a misprice but a stock issue.

Not so obvious in my mind

One more post... haha

Was an automated invoice based on an incorrect discount rate.

I would suspect the UK and the Irish micro-sites share the same product database, but with simple price conversions.

Good luck everyone.