Charged wrong price for a car

Olokia

Karmaman wrote: »

It is amazing how everyone thanks a user that takes advantage of a genuine mistake in Tesco (like the batteries where they gave them to you for free and cash back against other shopping) or any other pricing error where you can be greedy, but is willing to aggrevate the OP for this pricing error...most people here are so two faced!:mad:

THere were quotes on that thread of someone making £84 off the rest of their shopping....

I think the difference is that in Tesco's the machine gives you the price and it isn't a user error.

In this case, the person selling the car made a mistake when typing the amount into the machine.

And the other difference is that one is for over £3000 and the other is for a couple of pounds or less.

arcon5

Karmaman wrote: »

I have lurked for ages (including trying out the Batteries offer myself, only to fail), but was shocked at how two faced some are. So, you think that the machine in Tescos gives the price and that a human hasnt entered this at some point....get real! People were going in specifically and buying tens of packets of batteries in the full knowledge of the error...surely that is just as immoral as the question posed by the OP.

There is a huge difference between £34.99 and £3499 and i would also be morally unsure as to what to do...

The difference is..

you go to the machine, the machine presents the price, you pay the price offered, contract done.

op went to the dealer, they agreed the price of 3.5k, op agreed to that price, op underpaid the agreed price.

if in the first example the price come to £10 and the machine made an error and charged you £5, the total price agreed is still £10, despite what you have paid.

pendulum

boysim34 wrote: »

... 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?

It's OK, don't worry. The warranty will not cover anything so it doesn't matter whether it is for 3 months or 12. Everything will be classed as wear and tear. Phew!

Karmaman makes quite a good point TBH. If anything, swarming to Tesco to take advantage of a pricing error is worse, because they do so in the knowledge that there is a pricing error. They do so with intent. There was no intent with the OP's scenario; the pricing error was only discovered afterwards.

GemBlueTopaz1984

Hi All,

I don't think Karmaman is the some person as the OP and I think he made a valid point, now I in no way agree with what the OP is trying to do in trying to find a loop hole to get out of paying and obviously they are liable for the remaining balance, but while I was reading through people replies I found myself thinking of how contradictory people can be, here people are telling him he is immoral for trying to exploit the car dealerships mistake yet this I was just reading on another section of this board about how people were exploiting a voucher for soup that meant you could in some cases get a free can of soup and money off other shopping and people were telling all about how they managed to do 10 at a time and able to use the money off without even buying the soup, is this not also exploitation of a mistake? no one seemed to be shouting at them to own up or telling them to make the companies aware of the mistake. I also often read about obvious pricing errors on websites that the people on here try to take advantage of usually with multiple orders. I don't think people can argue that these are morally different because the aren't, they are exactly the same. Again i'm not saying the OP isn't morally and legally wrong, but I do think the attack on him is somewhat two faced, but then, that just my opinion.

redped

GemBlueTopaz1984 wrote: »

Hi All,

I don't think Karmaman is the some person as the OP and I think he made a valid point, now I in no way agree with what the OP is trying to do in trying to find a loop hole to get out of paying and obviously they are liable for the remaining balance, but while I was reading through people replies I found myself thinking of how contradictory some people can be, here people are telling him he is immoral for trying to exploit the car dealerships mistake yet this I was just reading on another section of this board about how people were exploiting a voucher for soup that meant you could in some cases get a free can of soup and money off other shopping and people were telling all about how they managed to do 10 at a time and able to use the money off without even buying the soup, is this not also exploitation of a mistake? no one seemed to be shouting at them to own up or telling them to make the companies aware of the mistake. I also often read about obvious pricing errors on websites that the people on here try to take advantage of usually with multiple orders. I don't think people can argue that these are morally different because the aren't, they are exactly the same. Again i'm not saying the OP isn't morally and legally wrong, but I do think the attack on him by some people is somewhat two faced, but then, that just my opinion.

I've fixed that for you - not all of us were even aware of the other thread about soup, and even if we were not all of us would have exploited that loophole.

fluffnutter

GemBlueTopaz1984 wrote: »

Hi All,

I don't think Karmaman is the some person as the OP and I think he made a valid point, now I in no way agree with what the OP is trying to do in trying to find a loop hole to get out of paying and obviously they are liable for the remaining balance, but while I was reading through people replies I found myself thinking of how contradictory people can be, here people are telling him he is immoral for trying to exploit the car dealerships mistake yet this I was just reading on another section of this board about how people were exploiting a voucher for soup that meant you could in some cases get a free can of soup and money off other shopping and people were telling all about how they managed to do 10 at a time and able to use the money off without even buying the soup, is this not also exploitation of a mistake? no one seemed to be shouting at them to own up or telling them to make the companies aware of the mistake. I also often read about obvious pricing errors on websites that the people on here try to take advantage of usually with multiple orders. I don't think people can argue that these are morally different because the aren't, they are exactly the same. Again i'm not saying the OP isn't morally and legally wrong, but I do think the attack on him is somewhat two faced, but then, that just my opinion.

Different boards are frequented by different posters. I wouldn't encourage anyone to exploit anything. For me, this site is about supporting each other as consumers and helping one another to understand the law, not getting one over on Tesco because they've not closed the loopholes in their 'double the difference' policy (or similar).

halibut2209

Any chance of a link to the tesco thread?

Dave101t

i also bought a car for £34.99, i got away with it too.....
http://www.elc.co.uk/Bobby-Car---Red/132280,default,pd.html

Karmaman

steven504 wrote: »

Karmaman must be the same person as he seems to have a lack of morals himself.

To explain, i meant that i would need to think as to whether i await the telephone call from the car dealership, or make the call myself. If asked for the money, i would settle up as it is clearly an error. I do have morals!

My point is if you went into a supermarket, and notice you have been undercharged on an item by £5, would you go back in and pay them the £5? The majority of people would probably not. At what point does it become immoral to not go back and settle up?? £10, £100, £1000? How many users on here rang Tesco, or Argos on a pricing error and drew their attention to this? Very few, if any, yet everyone offers thanks etc to the OP for pointing out the mistake.

If you purposefully went to Tesco to take advantage of an obvious pricing error, or to use a voucher and not buy the goods, then surely this is definately immoral (and possibly illegal).

Just my opinion on the matter.

fluffnutter

halibut2209 wrote: »

Any chance of a link to the tesco thread?

I don't know if Tesco is the company that GemBlueTopaz is talking about - I just used it as an example. I have seen a thread where people say 'quick! They're flogging such and such at whatever price but you can get it cheaper elsewhere so get yourself down there, buy 10 of them, then get double the difference back!'.

Pretty distasteful really (IMO) although I'm sure others would say it's merely savvy shopping. Horses for courses, innit.