Website Mistakes

Ryan88

Today I saw that Manchester United made a website error which led them to sell their brand new kits for just £22.

In the US, I also saw Bestbuy make a similar mistake the other day and were selling their Xbox Ones for $45.

Why am I the guy who always misses out on these deals?

Does anyone know of any websites that search for these kind of mistakes and promote them?

I'm just fed up of missing out on these mistakes!

Thanks.

wdah

HotUKDeals is a good 'un for getting on deals quickly. They post a LOT though, so you do have to check very frequently.

PenguinOfDeath

Although as in store, the price advertised is an 'invitation to treat' i.e. They don't actually have to honour the price at all

Lugh_Chronain

If goods are mispriced can you I force them to sell them to you at that price?

Yeah, as PenguinOfDeath points out, that's an urban myth. Shops don't have to sell anything to you if they don't want to, regardless of price. Yet deliberately misleading you is criminal.

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/consumer-rights-refunds-exchange

There are incidences were retailers have posted what you might call mistaken prices or mispriced items on their websites, not surprisingly consumers take advantage of these before a retailer notices the mispriced item or items. Generally the retailer will honour the price though as pointed out they don't have to. Such incidences are also posted frequently on this website and on HotUKDeals.

If you don't won't to miss a good deal then try the following:

•camelbuy - BestBuy product tracker
•camelcamelcamel - Amazon.com product tracker
&
•camelegg - Newegg product tracker

http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/retailers

With HotUKDeals as pointed out by wdah you can either do a search of their site or go to their Custom Settings which can be found at the bottom of their website, you'll find options for retailers and products/items your wanting to purchases there, a deals email will be sent to your inbox soon after someone has posted it and once you've choosen your item(s). Very straight forward once you get the hang of it. You'll need to sign up to HotUKDeals to receive their deals emails.

With camelbuy, etc, there's no need to sign up if you choose not to, just enter your email address and add what you might consider a reasonable offer price. After searching the item you're after you should also see a graph of the price history of that particular item, realistically you might want to set the item to the most recent cheapest price.

For supermarket shopping you might also like to give mySupermarket a go as well. You can select any product to add a price alert on it. They'll email you once its price drops. Click on any product image, click Add price alert. As simple as that.

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/

Good luck.