shop **** up = win :D

Good deal. The older generation (500 and 700 series) Archos units are getting cleared out of shops as they've been superceded.

Shame really as I much prefer them to the new model. Progress, eh? :)
 
Skidmark said:
I'd be happy finding a shop with one Wii in it let alone three :)
Nice deal though ;)
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Yeah seems to be a major shortage around here. We've been in at least a dozen shops in a couple of cities and not had any luck, in fact only one store could even tell us when they might be getting some more stock.

I think the trouble at the moment is that due to word of mouth and pre-orders etc, unless you actually get down to a shop early on the day stock is arriving you have no chance of getting one. Demand is such that it's not just game shops which get raided at dawn by people who've been tipped off.
 
From what i have been told at work if you remove it from sale for 24 hours its ok.I dont understand this thing though :confused: Anybody explain?

Good job with the shop though,good people who dont have the profit motive.
 
there doesnt have to be any lenght of time for the removal of goods from the shelf. all you have to do as the retailer is correct the price. you dont *have* to remove the goods before doing it afaik but it is good practice.
 
FrostedNipple said:
i believe if a shop has something of a bad price, they either have to sell it at that price or actually remove the stock for 24hrs or something like that so really they are breaking the law and they know that so they sold you it for the low price bearing in mind they knew you wernt goignt o report them to trading standards etc
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I used to work as an in-store customer representative for Harrods, and the amount of time we have people making up the law was hilarious.

Some woman saw a Gucci bag priced quite low, but when she went to buy it she was told it had been mispriced and she couldn't have it at that price. She then came to customer services to complain, saying something to the effect of, "if an item is priced a certain way - it HAS to be sold at that price! My friend's a solicitor and I know what the law is!!"

The truth is, as has been stipulated, that the law takes into account that people can make mistakes. If an item has been mispriced the shop can withdraw it from sale for 24 hours and reprice it. The shop didn't have to sell you the goods at £75, I would actually say they made two mistakes - mispricing it and then selling it at that price after the mistake had been pointed out. Either that or they were just being kind, which would strike me as more odd :p
 
Jotun said:
Nope, there has been a few threads about similar things before. The advertised price is simply invitation to a treat. They are under no obligation to sell mispriced items, however some shops do honour mis-priced items if it isn't too much of a loss, which is probabaly because they don't want their reputation ruined.
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Regardless of wether that is correct or not I believe the management generally lets it slide because if you take it to trading standards and win they get charged £5,000 per product on the shelf, or so all the Tesco managers I've spoken to on the subject believe.

I personally think thats a little far fetched myself :)

I've actually taken advantage of this in a large retail chain before when they had a stack of brand new (at the time) HP scanner printer copiers and they had stacked them around a post with the older version which didn't do all the bells and whistles.

Took my 200+ quid printer to the front desk then made a fuss about it saying £87 on the pile, security guard went over and checked, came back and confirmed it and the checkout lass marked it down and I had to gag my father who was trying to protest the mistake and drag him out :P
 
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Raymond Lin said:
suprise they still sold it to you after they corrected their error, the fact that you've seen it makes no difference, lucky boy !
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Indeed, at my old place (IKEA) if they cocked up with a price, as long as they changed it within 24 hours, they didn't have to legally honor the incorrect price. Or so I was told anyway :)
 
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