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It's 2019 and still retailers haven't quite got a grip on their online shopping websites. Coles, a large supermarket in Australia, sold products with deep discounts due to a glitch until the company found the problem and restored the system. This story comes with a modern twist with users going to social media to spread the word about the glitch on the site so others can quickly take advantage. The store was able to get ahead of the surge in online shoppers and cull some of the carts, but not before the front runners picked up their discount goods.
Oh, look, a good use for social media. What are we up to, 5, or 6 now? =)
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:38PM (1 child)
Not exactly. The law requires the advertised price to not be misleading, but allow for clerical unintended errors - in which case, the price at checkout may be corrected without punishment for the seller (as long as they apply the corrections on the advertised price and don't rely on such 'errors' as a selling method). Of course, the buyer may refuse a corrected price before transaction (and the transaction is cancelled), but once the transaction is done at the advertised price, the seller can't ask for the difference.
Coles adopted a voluntary policy (scroll to 'our promise on price scanning) [coles.com.au] which says 'if advertised price is lower for a single item, you get your item free. For multiple items, only the first one is free'.
If the law was as strict as you describe, that policy would be illegal.
(I'm too lazy to search for Woolies, ALDI, aso - but I doubt they don't do something similar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday February 07 2019, @12:02AM
OK, my mistake.
In New Zealand businesses must sell a product for the advertised price, even if it is an error. I was under the impression that our consumer protection stuff was pretty much a copy of yours.
Every now and again there are stories of people getting $50 laptops and such because of some mistake made by a store.