Halfords sold my sons bicycle

whitewing

Do they really let you pay for Xmas presents which they store for free? Surely that's asking for trouble. What about the warranty? Is that valid from purchase or collection?

Still better to find out now than on Xmas eve.

nathan97

I think the warrant is from the date of purchase,yeah it has to be.

fwor

nathan97 wrote: »

JD87 of course its my property, I had already paid for the item in full and have a receipt to say its mine.

That's plainly not true. You have a contract with Halfords to supply a bike, but as it has not been delivered to or collected by you it cannot be your property.

Try to focus on what is said above about Halfords failing to deliver on your contract - anything else about Halfords having "stolen your property" is a distraction that has no value.

Equaliser123

fwor wrote: »

That's plainly not true. You have a contract with Halfords to supply a bike, but as it has not been delivered to or collected by you it cannot be your property.

Try to focus on what is said above about Halfords failing to deliver on your contract - anything else about Halfords having "stolen your property" is a distraction that has no value.

OP didn't say that it was stolen.

The fact that it has neither been delivered nor collected makes no difference as to where the legal ownership lies.

fwor

Equaliser123 wrote: »

OP didn't say that it was stolen.

I didn't say that the OP said that either.

What I tried to point out is that it would be wrong to focus on "the (undelivered, possibly non-existent) bike is my property", which ~seems~ to be pointing the OP in the direction of "stolen", and focus instead on the failure to deliver on a contract - which is what has actually happened.

fthl

I agree with Eq and Arcon. They supply the bike or they pay the cost of getting the same bike from somewhere else.

nathan97

Fwor I have never thought or insinuated that Halfords have stolen the bike. I would be happy with a replacement, because it is a specific bicycle that my son picked. if you were in my shoes, you would not like to give your child a different bicycle to the one they had picked. I just do not want to disappoint him on Christmas morning.

abbyscuito

What size was the bike? The 16" and 18" version is available Reserve and Collect at some stores. Get them to transfer it your local Halfords?

fwor

nathan97 wrote: »

Fwor I have never thought or insinuated that Halfords have stolen the bike.

That's fine - I was just trying to stop you from being distracted by "the bike is my property" line - because you clearly can't own something that (for example if their system was wrong and there wasn't actually one in the warehouse) doesn't exist.

I reckon you stand a good chance of getting a bike of the same spec from them at no extra cost, simply by pointing out what they are contractually obliged to supply.

nathan97

Thank you,It was the 16" version. Halfords said it was not available, and when I did a serch within a 150 mile radius on the website, it also said there were none available. Thank you ever so much for looking and trying to help though.:beer: