Concord Lift Evo PT car seat £119 down to just £9

CrimpQueen

*max* wrote: »

Now brace yourselves for the inevitable "But a contract was formed" / "But they took my money"/ "I'm taking them to court" / "they can't get away with it, I know my rights" coming from the would-be lawyers after people have received a cancellation email - which will happen, seeing they must have received thousands of orders and won't possibly be able to fulfill them all.

I do hope people get their order, but it's highly unlikely everyone will, so if the forum could be spared all the inevitable litigious moaning afterwards, it'd be nice!

Well said. I don't know why people waste their time getting upset about these things. Great if you get it, never mind if you don't.

Totality

blue_monkey wrote: »

Not is hasn't, the bank has reserved the money so you cannot spend it on anything else, save you going overdrawn etc.... Mothercare do not take their money until the order is dispatched.

They might well have 10 they wanted to get rid of but there were 70 thanks on this thread - some of those people have ordered 3 each, plus all the people on HDUK.

Very few companies have people working 24/7 on their internet site. Say you work for Mothercare and know you have done something and are getting the sack, what is to stop you putting 10000 car seats in stock and selling them for 90p with free delivery? This is why most retailers do not charge until the goods are actually dispatched.

When someone gets into work tomorrow they are a) going to get their ar se kicked and b) have a lot of work to do cancelling the orders. Once the orders are cancelled on their systems the funds are relased back to your card as the authorisation has been cancelled. No goods. No contract.

You're working on the assumption there though that somebody HAS to be manning the systems, aren't you?

Take eBay as an example. If you list say, 100 of an item, then once 100 bids come in, there's no more to sell.

I don't see any reason why the Mothercare system can't have the stock numbers in the system and that when they've gone, it'll show as sold out.

I'm not saying this is the case, but I don't think the time and possibility that nobody was staring at a monitor should mean this will end badly.

Thanks to the OP. Fingers crossed anyway for those who ordered.

blue_monkey_2

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Aw thanks Blue monkey. That's a bit of a downer Well I can live in hope I suppose!

Thing is, sometimes it's a glitch and you get lucky - sometimes it is a mistake, human error. It's why a lot of companies now charge at point of dispatch, their sites are set up NOT to take any money because of situations like this.

A while back they no doubt would have honoured the glitch because a few people found it, now with sites such as these and they can 'sell' 3000 in an hour because someone made a mistake, the companies have to cover themselves.

I am guessing it was a mistake and should have been 99.99. They might have honoured a few - but this many? I cannot see it myself.

blue_monkey_2

Totality wrote: »

You're working on the assumption there though that somebody HAS to be manning the systems, aren't you?

Take eBay as an example. If you list say, 100 of an item, then once 100 bids come in, there's no more to sell.

I don't see any reason why the Mothercare system can't have the stock numbers in the system and that when they've gone, it'll show as sold out.

I'm not saying this is the case, but I don't think the time and possibility that nobody was staring at a monitor should mean this will end badly.

Thanks to the OP. Fingers crossed anyway for those who ordered.

Someone has to be manning them to see the sales come in and pick up on the mistake. You know, human error. Have you ever made a mistake ever?

I reckon there was 9 in stock at £99.99 - does not take a genuis to work out that someone pout 9999 in stock at £9.00.

Does it??

lisad21

If i don't get it thenIdon't mind, might be a teeny bit gutted lol. Not losing anything are we?

Savvybunny2009

blue_monkey wrote: »

Oh, and this thread was started at 5.54 tonight - by which time most of the Mothercare employees have gone home and so therefore would not have noticed that 2000 people have been buying car seats for £9. They might well have had 10 or 20 - all of which were bought by the people on HDUK and so when the person checked, there might have well be 1 or 2 left in stock.

Customer services were open until 8pm, Iimagine they would have been aware and the item being removed from the search on the website (link still takes you there though) indicates that someone there removed it rather than it being out of stock.

Mine has moved to despatching soon I ordered around 6.30, I know it's not a guarantee at all, but it said something else before that so someone has moved it on...

I hope that the person saying they had called customer services was genuine and that mother care will honour orders of one item rather than the bulk buyers for ebay, we can only wait and hope

twinkle_eyes_2

I've bought one will be going to parents house so I can get a lift home now with baby and don't have to walk for an hour or fork out for a taxi each time I go over to their house

blue_monkey_2

jeppy wrote: »

Well it is showing as 92% off!!!

Good luck - what a bargain!! Too late for me both for he offer and for my kids. LOL

Because the software that prices stuff up, you put in the RRP and then you put the actual sale price, some sites will strike though the old price, some will not. However, the software is configured to automatically show the saving between the RRP and the price.

It would not show if there had been a pricing error.

Totality

blue_monkey wrote: »

Someone has to be manning them to see the sales come in and pick up on the mistake. You know, human error. Have you ever made a mistake ever?

I reckon there was 9 in stock at £99.99 - does not take a genuis to work out that someone pout 9999 in stock at £9.00.

Does it??

Obviously I made a mistake replying to you in the first place.

End of the day, none of us know what's happened. Yes, chances are it's an error, but nothing ventured and all that. Worst case is Mothercare cancel orders (followed by people coming on here threatening to sue them because their order of 100+ hasn't been honoured).

Edit: 1000th post!

emlou2009

Blue monkey, have you ordered one/some of these? I dont see why you seem to be getting so upset about it and p1ssing all over the bonfires of people who are pleased they might have got a bargain? If it is an error and nobody gets them, can you not just let Mothercare do the p1ssing?