RE: The Vaio model in question...

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Alas, no.

 

The "Argos case" set the legal precedent that if the price were "obviously wrong" that was sufficient to prove that the purchaser had entered into the contract in bad faith, and the vendor could repudiate the contract on that basis.

 

There was a lot of discussion about the applicability of the Argos case when the Kodak cameras thing happened. That was different, and the consensus was that the Argos ruling did NOT apply, because £150 wasn't "obviously wrong" for a digital camera. The logic being, there WERE plenty of digicams at that price point, so it wasn't reasonable to assume bad faith - the purchasers were potentially justified in believing that this was merely a special offer, offering a better model for the price of a lesser.

 

£75 would appear "obviously wrong" as a price for a laptop. As such, I would imagine that the "Argos case" precedent would apply.

 

Note: I'm NOT a lawyer. However, my job requires that that I understand a reasonable amount about contract law as it applies to selling on the Internet :-)

 

Regards,

 

Mark

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Butler [mailto:roaming@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 July 2002 17:35
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] The Vaio model in question...

Shouldn’t payment accepted = sale accepted => no turning back?

Dell for instance, hadn’t accepted the orders for the monitors the other week so fair enough, but once payment is accepted isn’t that it?

 

Just did a 2^nd order in case we get em :D

 

 

Tony

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gareth Cook/UK/IBM [mailto:gcook@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 July 2002 17:08
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] The Vaio model in question...

 

http://www.vaio.sony-europe.com/eng/products/notebooks/models/c1ve/content.html

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