toshiba laptop 249.99

frankie

now showing on the Littlewoods web site at £779.00. Also trying to log onto the 'my account' and comes back with not available! Crashed or being corrected??

slojo

Tiglet wrote:

As I understand it, there are three components to a contract: an offer, acceptance and consideration (i.e. payment). That usually means that there's no contract until you pay up.

However, I don't know how this works in the case of a system that is designed to work on credit. The contract has to exist at some point before they send out the goods, otherwise you could just collect your order and then claim that there's no contract.

It is long established in UK contract law that when a seller is proffering goods for sale he is not making an offer which would mean that you could accept and pay thereby forming a binding contract.

Instead, he is inviting you (the buyer) to make him an offer to purchase the goods. You make the offer and then if he accepts and you have paid, there is a binding contract.

CrazySaver

retepetsir wrote:

I've just received my confirmation, ordered it over 1.5hr's ago. I doubt it'll go through, but we'll see.

Did you order from Littlewoods or LXDirect?

quoia

Aidy wrote:

As posted earlier:

LXDirect T&C's say:

"3.2 Whilst it is our intention to keep our website up to date and error free, product description or pricing errors may occur. If we discover such an error after you have submitted an order to us, we will contact you prior to accepting your order with the correct details. You may then either cancel your order or re-confirm it based on the correct information. If we are unable to contact you, we will treat your order as cancelled."

This doesn't apply if you place the order over the phone !

simate

Saint_Chris wrote:

MICROSOFT OFFICE HOME AND STUDEN ONE SIZE ONE COLOUR

that is what it says on my track order on line,, but in my print of it says laptop

Tracking is down now lol. My order conf says A100 laptop with Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007

Totoriko

slojo wrote:

It is long established in UK contract law that when a seller is proffering goods for sale he is not making an offer which would mean that you could accept and pay thereby forming a binding contract.

Instead, he is inviting you (the buyer) to make him an offer to purchase the goods. You make the offer and then if he accepts and you have paid, there is a binding contract.

That didn't seem to work at all against Dixons. We got charged 1p for the nice LCD TVs we bought but they never turned up and we all got refunded.

ozzyo99

Good point, is there any T&C for telephone orders?

Flimber

Order confirmation just recieved via email. Ordered at 12:39.

simate

Nobody will be getting a laptop anyway. It's obviously a price error, so no moaning when they cancel your order.

Idiophreak

simate wrote:

Nobody will be getting a laptop anyway. It's obviously a price error, so no moaning when they cancel your order.

but that's the best bit!!