Website Glitch help !!!

halibut2209

I don't have the same morals as you. You knew it was a glitch and you tried to profit from it. I consider that to be dishonest. Others may disagree.

dblue75

halibut2209 wrote: »

I don't have the same morals as you. You knew it was a glitch and you tried to profit from it. I consider that to be dishonest. Others may disagree.

Ok, now you go down the trying to get personal route.....and you don't even know me.Tsk

halibut2209

You started it by suggesting I would do the same. I was responding to that.

dblue75

Well thanks again everyone and I do mean everyone for help and advice. I shall retire to have a long hard think.

dalesrider

dblue75

How many orders in total, did you place?

To me it sounds like you found the glitch. Then used it several times. Now you have been caught out.

frugal_mike

To be fair to dblue75, taking advantage of glitches does seem to be official Money Saving Expert policy. I saw a headline article on the homepage about how the team had been enjoying some very heavy discounts on icecream due to a pricing glitch. Search for 'moneysavingexpert 69p icecream glitch'. I tried to find the link, but the page the link displays doesn't contain the content it claimed it would (perhaps because I'm on a phone).

Obviously this doesn't make it more or less moral...

tinkerbell28

frugal_mike wrote: »

To be fair to dblue75, taking advantage of glitches does seem to be official Money Saving Expert policy. I saw a headline article on the homepage about how the team had been enjoying some very heavy discounts on icecream due to a pricing glitch. Search for 'moneysavingexpert 69p icecream glitch'. I tried to find the link, but the page the link displays doesn't contain the content it claimed it would (perhaps because I'm on a phone).

Obviously this doesn't make it more or less moral...

This is different as he used a voucher. Martin has been very clear on press releases and articles involving vouchers. NOT to abuse them, or go against the t&cs or try to use them to defraud as it could be a criminal matter.

Hence why vouchers can't be posted on grabbit, etc.

frugal_mike

Is it different? Both things involve buying things for less than the shop intends to sell them for due to an error made by the shop, with full knowledge that the error would be made.

If the voucher was valid but the checkout applied the wrong discount I don't see how that is morally different to buying something from a till when you know it will apply the wrong discount.

Note I'm talking morally, not legally. I don't know what the legality is, but unless OP lied in some way I don't see how it could be fraud, and he was freely given the items so I don't see how it is theft. I'm not a solicitor though so I may well be very wrong on that

dblue75

tinkerbell28 wrote: »

This is different as he used a voucher. Martin has been very clear on press releases and articles involving vouchers. NOT to abuse them, or go against the t&cs or try to use them to defraud as it could be a criminal matter.

Hence why vouchers can't be posted on grabbit, etc.

I didn't use a voucher....I added the items to my basket, when I got to pymt screen, it applied a promo discount (not me) and gave me a total of what I had to pay.

pk04

I would say, how are you to know that it was not a genuine offer if that's the price that came up when you put the items in your basket. Its the same as an offer in a supermarket that isn't advertised but comes off at the till, you aren't going to go to CS and say you've been overcharged are you?