Price Match Code Law

azocarbo | 11:32 Thu 30th Jun 2011 | Law

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I have received a price match code that allows me to obtain the item in question even more cheaply than the price I was looking to match (a mistake on their part). As far as I understand it the company are within their rights to request that I pay the corrent price up until the time I receive the goods, at which time the contract has been completed.

Now I have told a few friends who are also interested in cashing in on this deal. I feel a certain amount of responsibility for the accidental discovery of the deal and while it is a big company in question, I don't want them to suffer greatly and obviously don't want to have any legal ramifications directed at me.

In the terms and conditions it states 1 item can be price matched per order, but doesn't mention the quantities of that item that can be ordered. The code doesn't only work for me, but my friends could obtain their own code requesting the price match that I did, and getting the same outcome (one already has).

What's the law here? What's my moral obligation? Any advice please?

This does seem very strange,

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CanisMajor

They do not have to serve you at all, they choose to for their own reasons, at anytime, if they think the deal is going bad they can withdraw it. If it's an error they can withdraw it at any time.

azocarbo

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As far as I understand it the company are within their rights to request that I pay the correct price up until the time I receive the goods, at which time the contract has been completed and there is no further action possible based on past cases?

azocarbo

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Maybe I haven't been clear enough here? A thread about sitting in a car gets 35 responses and I've only got one that isn't what I was looking for :/ What can I do?

dotty.

write shorter questions, some people have a low attention span

sandyRoe

And remember one good answer is worth more that 100 frivolous ones.

buildersmate

Once someone (K9 in this case) has produced what most fair-minded ABers would think is the 'right' answer, there's no point lots of others piling in and repeating the same (good) answer.
You are communicating with the serious part of the site - not the trivia.

azocarbo

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What? Who is K9? If it's the first responder then they failed to answer any part of my question(s).

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