Retailer sorry over â¬6.49 TV blunder Viking Direct has corrected the mistake and will not be supplying televisions to customers who purchased at the incorrect price. An online retailer accidentally priced a 51 inch 3D television for â¬6.49 instead of â¬649 last night. The offer was online throughout Saturday and most of Sunday before Viking Direct disabled the purchase function, but not before several thousand orders were made. However, punters who thought they nabbed a bargain will be left disappointed, as Viking released a statement this morning saying it is unable to fulfill orders placed for the television at the incorrect price. Customers who placed an order for the television will automatically be given a full refund. âAs per Vikingâs terms and conditions, the company is entitled to cancel any order if the ordering web pages contain any error, including in relation to the description or price of any goods,â the statement read. âWe are in the process of contacting those customers who placed an order for the wrongly priced television to advise them of the misprice and their impending refund. We would like to apologise to our customers for any inconvenience this has caused.â The offerâs webpage was shared over 50 times on Twitter with people encouraging others to nab the offer before website administrators noticed. The initial price did not include VAT, which would have brought it up to a whopping total of â¬7.98. University student Cathal Ronan attempted to purchase three of the discounted televisions after his friend received a call telling him about the offer. âI thought it was worth a try. I was going to keep one, give one to my parents and probably sell the other one for around â¬500. I put it up on Facebook and after around 45 minutes it was taken down,â he said. âA friend of a friend tried to spend everything in his bank account to buy 162 of them.â The old adage "if it's too good to be true,it probably is! http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2013/0304/breaking26.html http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/viking-samsung-tv-offer-818112-Mar2013/?utm_source=twitter_self
Good for Viking, these "if it is for sale at that price you HAVE to let me have it" mob are a bunch of pikey ****s. You can't force someone to part with their property, the price is what legal bods refer to as an invitation to tender and they are more than within their rights to refuse to honour something that is a mistake.
well if the truth be known they should honour the price you payed>>>>>it should be tough **** on viking really>>>>>> eat the rich
It could have been a very expensive typo though,there was another fella on the radio that bought 13 of them
It's been a long held myth that incorrectly priced items have to be honoured at the incorrect price. Yet people (dumb ****s) still seem to believe it.
The best thing to do in a case like this is to buy one and say nothing. It probably would have went through, then if it did go back and try again. They probably twigged on to the error by tons of orders coming in for stupid quantities.
