widescreen TVs for 49p!!!!! [CLOSED]

bedshaped

I was just wondering what this guy might have to say about it all...

Chief executive of the ARGOS RETAIL GROUP

Terry Duddy
Headquarters
489-499 Avebury Boulevard
Saxon Gate West
Central Milton Keynes, MK9 2NW

heatherw_01

Money gone from my account now too.

mirandamayhem

still no money has left my account.
Can i be nosey and ask those of you who've had money leave your accounts, what time you placed your orders and with which site?

Tech_Kid

My available balance and my actual balance are the same but the argos transaction is highlited in purple and doesn't say anything in the column that tells you who has taken the money. I have natwest online banking :rolleyes:

sparky61

mirandamayhem wrote:

still no money has left my account.
Can i be nosey and ask those of you who've had money leave your accounts, what time you placed your orders and with which site?

I received my confirmation email at 10.02am on saturday, just a few minutes after I placed the order. I paid by Nationwide debit card. I ordered from Argos.

Zaphod_Beblebrocks

Just a thought,can you reserve these on the net for instore collection, I am just thinking if they say they have no stock and you have one reserved for pick up until the close of business the next day.....

HGLTsuperstar

As with sparky61 above, I paid Argos by Nationwide debit card on Saturday morning, and this morning shows money has left account, and yes did get a confirmation email back by midday Saturday. Did only order one as think that mass orders, tempting as they are, will spoil it for all of us. They are more likely to honour one per household than eighty
So what to do? Wait the 21 days then ring up to see why no delivery?

mirandamayhem

Thank you people!
anyone have a lloydstsb account and had money go out?

Dave=m55

NO CONTRACT HAS BEEN FORMED HERE.

"The precedent on this issue was set by Hartog v Colin and Shields in which there was a pricing error where the seller thought he was pricing per pound, but the cost was actually calculated per item. The Court held that purchaser could not reasonably have supposed that the offer expressed the real intention of the persons making it, and must have known it was a mistake. The purchaser therefore did not, by his acceptance of the offer, make a binding contract with the seller. This would therefore give an on-line retailer a defence if the price of a product was so ludicrously low that the intention to create legal relations could not be formed. "

For a mistake to affect the validity of a contract it must be an "operative mistake", ie, a mistake which operates to make the contract void. The effect of a mistake is:

· At common law, when the mistake is operative the contract is usually void ab initio, ie, from the beginning. Therefore, no property will pass under it and no obligations can arise under it.

By refunding your money, things have been set to rights, and you would be blowing money into the wind pursueing this.

You're just been stupid if you beleive that a) You "could not reasonably have supposed that the offer expressed the real intention of the persons making it"

By all means pursue this, but, unlike the kodak case, you will lose.

I, of course, expect people to just ignore this piece of advice, and try to argue that by taking the money the shop has entered into a binding contract, but the law does not see it that way. You knew it was a mistake, even the original post in this thread pointed this out. You could not have reasonably expected to receive the items for 49p.

Harking on about how you beleive a contract was made, when it has not, doesn't get you anywhere.

ought

Money has now been taken from my Natwest Credit Card so a contract is legally formed is it not.