> If a price on a website is incorrect, how legally binding is it?
>
> I was on a website today, and saw a price for a MD7xx battery for
> 0.00 and
> a postage cost of 1 ukpound.
> In the UK, legally can I hold them to this?
That depends - in a shop situation, the marked price is an "invitation to
treat", which is not a binding price until an agreement has been made
between the buyer and seller (typically when you have over the money/swipe
the card).
Formally, the buyer makes an offer which the seller has the right to
reject. This is just implied usually - the buyer's happy with the marked
price, the seller's happy to sell at the marked price.
This means that you don't have the right to buy something at a marked
price - the seller can simply reject the offer.
It gets more complicated with online shopping - at what point in the
transaction has an "agreement" been made, and is the automated response of a
webserver as legally binding as the verbal/written agreement from a human
seller?
Possibly worth a try, but from similar examples (Argos 2.99 TVs, etc), you
don't have much of a case.
--
Simon
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