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

Double_R_2

@ Nostromo

Indeed. I agree with what you say. What you will find is that they will most likely reply tomorrow morning and say due to the height of orders they are unable to process your order at this current time as they are out of stock and will refund your money back into your account. Then when they finally "have some in stock" they will be back at the correct price.

Lol, i have been monitoring this post on and off since 2pm this afternoon and find some of the comments really amusing. Whoever rang up Apple was asking for trouble. Why fix what is not broken?

markabuckley

If you're talking about "me" phoning up Apple - I did it to place the order ... I didn't even mention the product - they instantly said "the mis-priced E1" - so they were well in the case probably from the instant that they had 10s if not 100s of orders this morning alone

Mark.

rowantoad

peter_the_piper wrote:

And the specs say built-in flash(jessops and Apple) And the memory card ain't a problem, most of us have a compactflash card hanging around.

Jessops include a FL-36 FLASHGUN i'm not sure about a built in flash I can't see that mentioned on apple? I don't think apple include the flashgun.

Everyone has Compact flash cards hanging round blimey I must be odd.

No preview on the LCD sheeesh. no flash, no memory. Jiminy cricket should I have gone for the trveller from aldi. ;-) <---- thats a wink

The_Doctor_3

Camera was on the Irish Education site up until 6.00pm............its now gone....

...real time stock analysis or pulled???

FF99

Double_R wrote:

@ Nostromo

Indeed. I agree with what you say. What you will find is that they will most likely reply tomorrow morning and say due to the height of orders they are unable to process your order at this current time as they are out of stock and will refund your money back into your account. Then when they finally "have some in stock" they will be back at the correct price.

Won't work on their T&Cs (lawyer speaking here !)

"2.4 By placing an Order, you make an offer to us to purchase the Products you have selected on these terms and conditions. We may or may not accept your offer at our discretion.
2.5 If we accept your Order, we will notify you of our acceptance by issuing an Order Confirmation. We will send your Order Confirmation to you by e-mail provided you have indicated an e-mail address on your Order Form. Otherwise we will send the Order Confirmation by post. The Order Confirmation will be effective on sending. If we cannot accept your Order we will attempt to contact you by email or telephone or mail.
2.6 Whilst we will make every effort to supply you with the Products listed on the Order Confirmation, there may be occasions where we are unable to supply these Products because, for example, such Products are no longer being manufactured or we are unable to source relevant components. In such circumstances we will contact you to inform you and may suggest alternative Products that you might wish to purchase. If you accept our suggestionsthen we will send you a revised Order Confirmation. If you do not accept our suggestions then we will cancel your Order in relation to those Products we cannot supply and repay you any money that you may have paid to us in respect of those Products. Repayment of such monies will be the extent of our liability to you if we are unable to deliver to you the Products you have ordered.
15. Circumstances beyond our reasonable control: We will make every effort to perform our obligations under the Contract. However, we cannot be held responsible for delays or failure to perform if such delay or failure is caused by any circumstances beyond our reasonable control. In the event of a delay, we will perform our obligations as soon as reasonably possible."

They have accepted the offer and there is a binding contract. It is not a case of 'mutual' mistake as I was certainly not under a mistake.

Therefore, their only let out (under clause 2.6) is that they cannot source the items. Given that these are readily available 'in the market', they will not be able to rely on this let out. If they are not in stock now, clause 15 kicks in and they have to supply as soon as reasonably possible. They cannot simply cancel. In any event as at 21.18 this has been pulled at the discounted price but is still available full price so they must have them to sell !

I will happily take them to the small claims court for breach of contract (loss of bargain) damages if they cancel. The information that they would have to produce to make good a defence based on clause 2.6 would be mind boggling in terms of its complexity and cost of production.

Any other lawyers out there want to express a view ??

SallyD

Wow, got all excited as I was actually in process of buying a Canon Powershot A75 so this looked brilliant. Anyhow, straight forward breach of contract, remember Argos!

zincoxide

Well I'm gonna sue them for:

Loss of Bargain
Repetitive Strain - from watching & commenting on this thread
Upset - I'll be gutted when this gets cancelled
The fact it's snowing - must have something to do with them

Surely some no-win no-fee idiot would happily take this up for us?

zincoxide

BTW - I am only joking!!

wireframebox

you can file for small claims on the net now right?

raeble

markabuckley wrote:

If you're talking about "me" phoning up Apple - I did it to place the order ... I didn't even mention the product - they instantly said "the mis-priced E1" - so they were well in the case probably from the instant that they had 10s if not 100s of orders this morning alone

Mark.

Yes, if you want to be sure that you will get a bargain especially something that looks mispriced like this one then don't post it on a messageboard. Keep it to yourself until you've got it. Then you can post.

The minute it is posted on a messageboard and people start buying in greater numbers than they were before then the retailer is going to cotton on. The bigger the messageboard and the more greedy people get the sooner they will notice. Apple probably sell ten of these a month if that, the minute they sold more of those in an hour than they normally sell in that period they system probably sent notification to someone.

So I don't understand why people have a go at people who phone up. It doesn't affect anything at all. The minute the 'deal' was posted your chances went from slim, to almost no-existant. Of course there are exceptions but Apple doesn't have the best customer service reputation and this is only for the 'education' store. So unless you qualify for that store you haven't really got anything to complain about when you don't get it.