What ever happend to those laptops everyone here orderd from a online site with errors on it?? did anyone actually receive them ive looked around and found no followup's... I was away and missed it..anyone score big??

Where????? ;)

You mean this - http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20265142-1,00.htm ?

Why would someone expect to get a laptop for a penny and then be mad when they didn't. It's like unlimited bandwidth!

Originally posted by IT Hosting
Why would someone expect to get a laptop for a penny and then be mad when they didn't. It's like unlimited bandwidth!

I would assume because they are not human, because humans do make mistakes and should understand when a mistake is made.

In the U.S. if you advertise a product for a price, mistake or not, you have to supply it at that price if orders are placed before a correction is made.

Fighting a false advertising charge could possibly cost more than honoring the orders.

Lamont,

Im not sure what U.S. you live in, but that is entirely untrue. Errors in ad prices happen often, and a company reserves the right to correct such mistakes, and can fulfill the order at the regular price, making it the customer's responsiblity to either not buy the product, or if bought online, return it for a refund.

Wishful thinking though. :)

I can't find the email that they sent me, but basically they cancelled all the orders.

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Here is it http://www.amblestreet.co.uk/foris/admin/directorstatement2.asp

lol:stickout

Originally posted by Lamont
In the U.S. if you advertise a product for a price, mistake or not, you have to supply it at that price if orders are placed before a correction is made.

Fighting a false advertising charge could possibly cost more than honoring the orders.

Even if they *were* legally bound to ship the laptops to thousands of people for 1 cent, it would screw the company over, so the company wouldn't want to provide them anyways. You have to use common sense

i wouldn't want to be in that company postion :-)

Originally posted by TheMMIz
Lamont,

Im not sure what U.S. you live in, but that is entirely untrue. Errors in ad prices happen often, and a company reserves the right to correct such mistakes, and can fulfill the order at the regular price, making it the customer's responsiblity to either not buy the product, or if bought online, return it for a refund.

Wishful thinking though. :)
I'll admit I could be wrong, I've been there before (so many times lately that I've got 'frequent flyer' miles :cartman: ) I was trying to go by memory of a situation that happened locally several years back.

The SMALL PRINT info often in ads: 'E&OE' Errors and Omissions excepted

MAX POWER :homer:

Guy tried to sell me a $65 laptop the other day...had a "property of the IRS" sticker on the bottom.

You can be held responsible for *deliberate* false advertising (as long as it isn't obviously a joke, eg. listing 768800 air miles = trip to the moon), but not for making mistakes.