Grabbit While You Can

Savvybunny2009

lisyloo wrote: »

If you are going against the ts&cs e.g. one per customer then that's not right.
Yes it's their fault if they don't manage it.
But that's akin to saying that if you forget to lock your door or your car then it's fair game.
I'm sure you wouldn't want your property to be fair game if you made a mistake in protecting it one day - like forgetting to set the alarm etc.

I'm not haggling for someone to rob my house though?

What I am saying is yes companies make mistakes but by law they don't have to honour a glitch price, by my theory said person would be standing in my open doorway waiting for me to decide whether I will accept them to loot me or not.

edit - I think your comment may be aimed at someone else about a groupon thing, I didn't take part in that so I have no idea.

Retro_Bunny

robstersgirl wrote: »

I love "looting" Tesco the legal way!! :rotfl:
If they had integrity in the first place they wouldn't have issues....

How is this any different to ripping off a family business.
Why should it be acceptable to rip off a big store, but not a little store.

When the May Day riots hit McDonald's, a corporate giant, did they consider that the one they chose to wreck was a privately owned franchise which a single business man had invested his life savings in! No they didn't!

robstersgirl

I mean that small family businesses are much more likely to suffer than multi million companies.
Of course it is wrong to rob any business.

robstersgirl

I got a tin of ravioli for 18p yesterday I'm worried I might get raided should I hand myself in now ??

liam8282

Retro_Bunny wrote: »

How is this any different to ripping off a family business.
Why should it be acceptable to rip off a big store, but not a little store.

When the May Day riots hit McDonald's, a corporate giant, did they consider that the one they chose to wreck was a privately owned franchise which a single business man had invested his life savings in! No they didn't!

Who is ripping off any big stores with a grabbit? Most grabbits are sales and discounts purposely set up by larger stores.

Genuine glitches always have the option to honour or not.

Even the beauty shop case that was mentioned earlier, I have read the thread and they said themselves that they had the option whether to honour the deal or not and they choose to honour.

There is a big difference between choosing to honour a deal and being looted.

As has already been said, but I didn't see any rioters or looters stopping and giving an option to loot or not to loot.

liam8282

Also what about all the people that live in these riot / looting areas, I wonder what their car insurance or house insurance premiums are going to be like come renewal time.

bravobeastie

liam8282 wrote: »

Also what about all the people that live in these riot / looting areas, I wonder what their car insurance or house insurance premiums are going to be like come renewal time.

It won't be just them though, we will all suffer for this

nancmat

Surely if businesses mis-price goods, or don't pick up on their own errors this is their problem? Like robsersgirl said a lot of these are very well thought out and with Tescos changing prices on the same goods daily they know exactly what they are doing. I'm sure employees of companies with glitches see this thread and inform their company.. if not why?

Money_maker

liam8282 wrote: »

Genuine glitches always have the option to honour or not.

This is correct and the seasoned 'grabbiter' (!) will shrug their shoulders and move on.

To be honest if you don't have the stomach for a bargain then best to avoid this board.

And big 'thank you' :T to those who post the grabbits and help our familys' budget stretch a little further in difficult times :A

lisyloo

What I am saying is yes companies make mistakes but by law they don't have to honour a glitch price, by my theory said person would be standing in my open doorway waiting for me to decide whether I will accept them to loot me or not.

True, but many systems work automatically these days.
Yes the business can turn it down.
That's not really the point though. The point is morally, just because you can, should you?
I would say if it's clearly not something you are entitled to (like creating 10 emails addresses when it's clearly one per customer) then morally you shouldn't.

I think your comment may be aimed at someone else about a groupon thing, I didn't take part in that so I have no idea

Not aimned at anyone in particular, so apologies if it came across that way.
There was £8 up for grabs for new customers.
You can pretend to be as many as you like if you have unlimited email addresses.
Persomally I declined.

If there was £8 per customer on the table at a pub/restaurant, would you walk in multiple times in different outfits/wigs etc.
Most people probably wouldn't but cos the internet is more anonymous they think it's ok.
I suspect most people would think that dressing up and pretending to be someone else in real life was akin to theft.