External 250GB hard drive £23.86 from Dell

Sponge

I vaguely remember a case from my limited studies of law at university (part of an Engineering Degree, I wasn't actually studying law). It was along the lines of someone paying for the use of a deck chair. They paid for the services and the T&Cs were listed at the place where the contract was made (a hut or something). But there were extra T&Cs on the back of the ticket given out when the chair was paid for. Such T&Cs were unenforceable, as they were after the fact, or something.

But this was over 10 years ago, it could have simply been an example used by the lecturer. Or indeed, a dream I had after a heavy night in the student bar.

biglugs

Damn- if only Dell sold deck chairs

subserviantdude

biglugs wrote: »

Damn- if only Dell sold deck chairs

am sure one of their subsidiaries do :rotfl:

hammy_the_hammer

whatever the item code should have belonged with it had to be iomega as if you enter individual part numbers before and after the quoted one.. they all relate to iomega

ianonline

subserviantdude wrote: »

As i stated i only studied law for a semester and anything i said should not be taken as fact. There was no need to disect my comments point by point. and you stand to be corrected :rotfl:

Hey, this IS a chat forum and I'm merely playing Devil's Advocate. If you're going to post, then you should fully expect people to respond to what you say, so don't get the hump if they challenge your comments.:eek:

I'm more than happy for anyone to challenge anything I post, and if they have a vaild point I'll say "fair do's". In fact, your point about the "order confirmation" DOES look to be valid, but it wasn't clear from your post whether you were making a sweeping assumption or whether your comments reflected something contained in their T&Cs (something which Sponge has clarified by quoting directly from the T&Cs).

Peace :beer:

Ian :cool:

hammy_the_hammer

i'm afraid this opens a whole can of worms over internet shopping....a large company decides to get rid of all those hard drives that a manufacturer sold them and wanted to get rid of them quick....they come up with a figure just above cost and put them on the website ....they are inundated with customers so decide to withdraw them and re-sell them in the future at a higher price...all they need is a set of t&c's that they can use as and when they liked.
if everytime you purchased something the company had to abide by your own personal t&c's that you emailed them ....the economy would grind to a halt.
eg hammy the hammer states "if goods aren't delivered within a week these goods are liable to be returned at no charge to hammy as one assumes that an error must have taken place in the process"

quidsinquentin

I've just had an email from DELL stating that they've had to cancel the order as it was a misprice.

Fair enough. Tried and failed. It's not worth going to the law over £23.

ianonline

hammy_the_hammer wrote: »

if everytime you purchased something the company had to abide by your own personal t&c's that you emailed them ....the economy would grind to a halt.
eg hammy the hammer states "if goods aren't delivered within a week these goods are liable to be returned at no charge to hammy as one assumes that an error must have taken place in the process"

Sorry, Hammy - I don't understand your point.

Ian :cool:

lumpy_bum

well i WILL be pursuing this.
i need one of them, they took my money so theyre gonna send it me lol

subserviantdude

lumpy_bum wrote: »

well i WILL be pursuing this.
i need one of them, they took my money so theyre gonna send it me lol

as will i. (tieing myself to the gates outside dell hq as we speak)