RE: UKNM: e-commerce own goal

[Steve Johnston]

Apparently, according to someone who may not know for sure at all, the

fact that everyone who tried to buy a Sony Nicam TV for �3.00 will have

known it was a mistake. Argos will be able to refuse to supply and

defend the decision on these grounds.


Steve Johnston

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> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Michael Trim [michael1way [dot] co [dot] uk (mailto:michael1way [dot] co [dot] uk)]

> Sent: 08 September 1999 13:37

>

To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: UKNM: e-commerce own goal

> 

> 

> I got from Bristol to Cork with my girlfriend a couple of 

> months ago for

> �1.80, because nationalexpress.com sold me two tickets for 

> 90p each, what a

> result! They changed it a couple of months later when they 

> must have noticed

> it in their logs. It'll be an interesting case to watch if they really

> decide not to honour the sales, I can't see how they could win.

> 

> Michael Trim

> 1Way Internet.

> 

> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Sam Michel <samchinwag [dot] com>

>

To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com <uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com>

> Date: 08 September 1999 13:29

> Subject: UKNM: e-commerce own goal

> 

> >Just saw this on the lunchtime news:

> >

> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/the_company_file/ne

> wsid_441000/441426.stm

> >

> >Argos making a boo-boo and incorrectly pricing Nicam TV sets 

> at �3...word

> >spreading like wildfire across the Internet....customers making huge

> >multiple orders....Argos could lose �1m....Argos refusing to 

> honour the

> >sales....

> >

> >I think there's a lesson to be learnt here...I mean we've all made

> mistakes,

> >but...ouch...

> >

> >Toodle Pip

> >

> >Sam

> >-------------------------------------------------

> >            Sam Michel

> >t: 0788 762 7115 f: 0797 101 3399

>

> e: samchinwag [dot] com

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