Bargains

[Parry1912]

have you had the email yet, P?

Sadly, yes.

Perhaps they should rename themselves as YouWantItWeHaven'tGotIt.

[teamsaint]

Whack it into Google Translate - Battle of the Huns - and see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunnenschlacht_%28Liszt%29

Thanks D2K+2

Thats what I came up with. Well its a good rallying point for disappointed/let down music lovers.......

[Bryn]

I also thought they had to honour quoted prices. A couple of years ago, one of our best price-error triumphs at Amazon was the 21 CD Real Chopin box. It was clearly a cock-up but they honoured it and some of us on here got it for £9.97 (I kept the receipt in the box as a trophy) - now selling at £130.46.

I think you will find that was hmv.com, not Amazon.co.uk

[verismissimo]

Has anyone else had the e-mail claiming that the Franz Liszt box set barcode has been mixed up with a Joe Cocker live DVD (God forbid!) My order has been cancelled. Did anyone actually receive the discs??

Me too.

[gurnemanz]

I think you will find that was hmv.com, not Amazon.co.uk

I've got an Amazon receipt.

[EdgeleyRob]

Yep,I've got the e mail cancelling the Liszt set.

[antongould]

Yep,I've got the e mail cancelling the Liszt set.

Presume I have too!

Rumpole have we not entered a legally binding contract with consideration, the works.....

Are we not in the land of Carlill versus the Carbolic Smokeball Company? .......apologies if you have explained this 237 times before!

[Bryn]

I've got an Amazon receipt.

Oops. Quite right. My order placed on 4th January 2011 and dispatched on the 25th of that month:

Item(s) Subtotal: £9.27
Postage & Packing: £0.00
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Total before VAT: £9.27
VAT: £1.85
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Total: £11.12
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Total for this Delivery: £11.12

So what was the great bargain many of us got around the same time from hmv.com?

[teamsaint]

Presume I have too!

Rumpole have we not entered a legally binding contract with consideration, the works.....

Are we not in the land of Carlill versus the Carbolic Smokeball Company? .......apologies if you have explained this 237 times before!

I always imagine the board legal experts to be rather like something out of Jarndyce vs Jarndyce....

anyway you may not have had that email yet , AG......

[Dave2002]

Presume I have too!

Rumpole have we not entered a legally binding contract with consideration, the works.....

Are we not in the land of Carlill versus the Carbolic Smokeball Company? .......apologies if you have explained this 237 times before!

I have seen other "classic" cases, but not this one. See here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlill...e_Ball_Company

I haven't used this to interpret the current situation - though I expect there are differences.

[mathias broucek]

I have seen other "classic" cases, but not this one. See here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlill...e_Ball_Company

I haven't used this to interpret the current situation - though I expect there are differences.

My Liszt also cancelled. I'm fairly sympathetic - it WAS obviously an error and it was a marketplace seller range than the gargantuan Amazon organisation who IIRC honoured the Sinopoli 2nd Viennese School box.

[teamsaint]

so why are the emails from amazon not the seller?

and incidentally, how are the cancelled orders marked on your accounts?

[Nick Armstrong]

Rumpole have we not entered a legally binding contract with consideration, the works.....

Are we not in the land of Carlill versus the Carbolic Smokeball Company? .......apologies if you have explained this 237 times before!

Just once: #3370 above

[AmpH]

[COLOR="#0000FF"]Certainly worth starting the ball rolling with Amazon by making a vociferous complaint. There is a contract when your acceptance corresponds with the seller's offer: so when you conclude your 'purchase' part of the transaction - item into basket, checkout, confirm order - that's the contract concluded right there imo.

Does there not also have to be something else, which I believe you legal chaps call " consideration ", as well as offer and acceptance to form a contract ? Or perhaps there already has been.

[Nick Armstrong]

Does there not also have to be something else, which I believe you legal chaps call " consideration ", as well as offer and acceptance to form a contract ? Or perhaps there already has been.

I think the supply of payment card details and your clicking of 'confirm' thereby doing all you have to (or can do) in order to effect payment, would be sufficient consideration.

However, the niceties of defamation law are more my thing than contract. I recall learning a lot about the effect of 'mistake' on contractual relations - as that was in the early 1980s, I wouldn't want to 'busk' that aspect now without suitable perusal of the - ahem - authorities