mike wilson wrote: >---- Tom C <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes I'd expect them to sell it to me at that price. There was an >> instance I read of several years back where Dell's online site had, I >> believe, Canon EOS 5D's improperly advertised at a substantially lower >> price. From what I recall, they sold the completed orders at the >> advertised price > >The completed order is a contract. The advert is an offer, which they are >free to withdraw at any time.
That's what they taught in the one law course I took in grad school: As soon as B&H billed the credit card there was both an offer to sell and an acceptance of the terms, so a contract was in effect. If B&H stopped the order *before* billing the credit card they're in the right. If they waited until after they'd billed the card the buyer would probably win this in court. In theory. In reality, it would probably be more time/trouble/money than it's worth. I'm told the offer/acceptance part of contract law is why retailers who have both online and physical stores keep separate inventory for each one; if they accept an order for a particular item on line they have to be sure customers in the physical store don't clean it out and make them unable to fulfill the online order. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
