Charged wrong price for a car

fluffnutter

boysim34 wrote: »

Did i say dishonest no i did not ,i asked where he legaly stood that is all. I said that if it was the dealer at fault then it's his problem.

Sure the dealer made a mistake. A mistake that happened to end in your partner's father's favour. But what if he'd made a mistake that ended in his own favour? What if, instead of taking £3499.00, he took double that? What if your partner's father had actually been charged £7K for this car? It's still the dealer making a mistake isn't it? You seem to be suggesting that the dealer made a mistake, so let's forget about it. I doubt you'd be saying that if he'd over-charged.

The mistake (and who made that mistake) is an irrelevancy.

Kira000

fluffnutter wrote: »

Sure the dealer made a mistake. A mistake that happened to end in your partner's father's favour. But what if he'd made a mistake that ended in his own favour? What if, instead of taking £3499.00, he took double that? What if your partner's father had actually been charged £7K for this car? It's still the dealer making a mistake isn't it? You seem to be suggesting that the dealer made a mistake, so let's forget about it. I doubt you'd be saying that if he'd over-charged.

The mistake (and who made that mistake) is an irrelevancy.

In actual fact, the mistake would probably have been worse than that the other way round, as it was the result of missing 0's not going into the debit card machine. If the error was in the garages favour, most likely the OPs father would have been charged £34990!!
Ouch. That would hurt if the dealer said, "ahh mistake, you should have spotted it when i put it in the machine before you your PIN in. Tough, no refund."

In legal terms the contract to buy was agreed between your father and the salesman at £3499, not £34.99, which was figure your father only saw later. So the dealer is not obliged to sell at the lower price. Much better to pay the correct agreed price now, than risk it coming back at an inopportune moment in the future, maybe with interest!

arcon5

In the interest of money saving, maybe cheekily ask for a free service as a goodwill gesture for bringing it to their attention promptly? (not that you deserve it )

boysim34

lol arcon5, he's already got a 12 month warranty on it , should have only have been 3 months, salesmans !!!! up again

redped

I assume he'll point out the mistake with the warranty when he also offers to pay the rest of the money?

boysim34

no the owner said it was the salemans fault , so he got 12 months instead of 3months

BargainGalore

And what if he made a mistake when he charged more

They can claim the money as it was a mistake, mistakes do happen. If shoe was on the other foot I bet you would be first to go back and complain

boysim34 wrote: »

yes i do understand the word honesty, but if the dealer made a mistake , his fault

boysim34

Did i say anywhere that my partners farther was not going to pay, no i did not. the only thing i asked is what is his legal stand on this ie sale of goods act. what is the problem of askin people for advice if all you get back is people having a go at me. not my fault that i only found out today. i knew the answer at the start but wanted to just make sure i was right. Flyboy152 the salesman did not complete the sale of the car it was the owner of the business, the salesman offerd a 12 month warranty instead of 3 months which he should not have done, now if one of my employees made a mistake like that what would you do?

Flyboy152

boysim34 wrote: »

Did i say anywhere that my partners farther was not going to pay, no i did not.

So why are you here asking if there are any loopholes?

the only thing i asked is what is his legal stand on this ie sale of goods act. what is the problem of askin people for advice if all you get back is people having a go at me. not my fault that i only found out today. i knew the answer at the start but wanted to just make sure i was right.

Because the only reason for asking such a question, is to establish if there is any way of getting away with not paying. Not the actions of someone who is intending to pay anyway. Why hasn't he paid already, if he wasn't not going to pay?

Flyboy152 the salesman did not complete the sale of the car it was the owner of the business, the salesman offerd a 12 month warranty instead of 3 months which he should not have done, now if one of my employees made a mistake like that what would you do?

Then there might even be a possibility that the owner of the business could be made bankrupt, while you and your "partner's father" struggle with your consciences.

redped

boysim34 wrote: »

Would you not want to be sure before you paid the balance incase you did not have to.

No. With a mistake like this, it would never enter my head NOT to pay. It's such an obvious mistake that I would have expected most (all?) people to point out the mistake, rather than ask whether or not they legally have to pay. I gather most of the people on this thread think the same, given the responses you've had so far.

boysim34 wrote: »

... as for going bankrupt and struggle with your consirnces ...

I honestly haven't a clue what these are.