Does this offer for Macbook pro @ £200 exist?

gh0st_3

I was casually searching kelkoo.co.uk for Apple Mac Laptops and ordered it by price, and there was one priced at £200.00

Apple MacBook Pro 15" 2.66GHz 4GB 320GB, £200
andertons.co.uk

My mouth dropped, a Macbook Pro, 4GB at £200? Really?

I searched the website and there is no reference to the offer at all!

I telephone andertons.co.uk but they said it was either a mistake, a voucher thing and fobbed it off.

I emailed kelkoo.co.uk to get confirmation but they never replied with my query about the offer.

My question is, does this offer actually exist?

Here's what I did:

1. Went to kelkoo.co.uk
2. Typed in "Apple" in the "What are you shopping for?" search box
3. Clicked on "Laptops", this will filter to laptops
4. Clicked on "Total price ascending" to make it filter to the cheapest first
5. The £200 macbook pro appears about 5th on the list

Here is a link:

shopping(DOT)kelkoo(DOT)co(DOT)uk/ssc-113501-Apple.html?sortBy=totalprice&view=List

I remember the stories of people buying stuff from Woolworths and getting holidays because things were mis-printed and they had to supply it at the price they advertised it.

Is this another case of the above?

Can someone confirm whether this actually exists? Thanks.

iamsnoopy

lol, must be an error with kelkoo's searching or database, or maybe the shop put it up by accident and took it down. you wont be able to get it at the price advertised cause its not being advertised by the shop itself, but is on a price aggregator

gh0st_3

But the price aggregator must be getting it from somewhere, isn't it an XML file supplied by the company?

superscaper

gh0st wrote: »

But the price aggregator must be getting it from somewhere, isn't it an XML file supplied by the company?

If it's a mistake that's since been corrected then not much you can do. Even if it hadn't you don't actually have much leverage since the law does take into account genuine mistakes by retailers etc. This isn't really in the same category as printed advertisement mistakes that happened with such places as Kodak. Especially since you don't actually have any info that was direct from the retailers.

Marty_J

You'd be lucky to find a four year old PowerBook on eBay for £200, never mind a brand new MacBook Pro.

Leopard

Nonsense!

Stand up for your rights!

If you insist, they will be happy to sell you one for £200 - by mail order only.

(But the shipping fee will be £1,400.)