Brand new M&S chair for fifty whole English pence.

[GideonKipper]

Just spotted this on the M&S site. It's rather fugly but for fifty pence....

50p armchair

Got to be a mistake? Tempted to buy one and sell it on eBay .

Well this has prompted me to call up and ask where my £2.80 got too. That will now be refunded, and I have bad confirmation.

I guess now. I have to wait another six weeks for my 50 pence.

Hmmmmn, anyone think M&S have gone into money laundering?

I have HAD confirmation.

Ooooh Rooners. I was just investing my energy I to setting up the fake chair as a money laundering front scandal.

If your going to start being reasonable than it'll call at the first hurdle.

Rooners no I know, but the principle is the same. I always thought Tesco had to do it because it was false advertising if they didn't, or something like that? I'm sure I saw it on watchdog once. I was just asking, really!

Rooners getting wound up over fuck all is what keeps mumsnet alive

No I know, it's been a great thread I was getting quite excited too...

Someone has created a website about it!

www.marksandspencerorders.com/

They have to honour shelf price, ie in store. I believe the Distance Selling Regulations are different (offer more protection to both parties as they give you a statutory period to return stuff even without fault).

M&S honour shelf price without quibbling - I bought items last week which were in a meal deal according to the shelf labels. Till said no. Apparently the deal had expired but as the labels were still there and undated, there was no issue about giving me the deal price (at a saving of more than 50p!).

I knew that would happen which is the only reason I didn't buy it.

I hope someone does get one delivered, though.

Any updates? Are people getting their ugly chairs?

Rooners no I know, but the principle is the same. I always thought Tesco had to do it because it was false advertising if they didn't, or something like that? I'm sure I saw it on watchdog once. I was just asking, really!

If a shop price all items in store incorrectly then they must sell the items at that price. If it is only one item priced incorrectly and all others on the shelf are correctly priced then they can remove that item from the shelf for 24 hours and then put it back on at the correct price.

Nope we have been recliner declinerererered.

But

I doubt there is anything that could actually be done, is there?! M&S is a massive company, they won't just go and do something that isn't allowed.

What wingding said

They have to honour shelf price, ie in store.

NO THEY DON'T

The shelf price is an offer to treat. They do not have to accept your offer.

So, because it was online and not in store, they don't have to worry? They did temporarily withdraw it from sale though, didn't they?

wetaugust, what is an offer to treat? I keep seeing the term?

Oops - the new view whole thread being on two pages got me.

Technically invitation to treat under contract law, but doesn't SOGA cover this differently? Very long time since I did any law exams but I thought there was some other legal aspect that changed the situation, otherwise a retailer could legitimately wrongly price everything in a shop in the hope that the consumer wouldn't notice until are paying...

They can legally pull your order until they confirm it as dispatched.

Google amazon test cases.

Sadly you won't be reclining.

Ah, come on folks. We tried out luck, the dice rolled wrong. One of those things, on with life.

I can't remember all the relevant stuff, and it was pre-Internet days anyway, but I think under contract law, advertised prices in stores are invitations to treat and can be refused at the till (wasn't Boots the test case?) but several retailers who have misprinted items and tried to charge the real price were successfully sued for misrepresentation, so generally if the shelf price is different to the 'real' price, retailers will honour the shelf price? Legally there's no contract until payment has been accepted, but most retailers want to avoid getting embroiled with Trading Standards. So the consumer doesn't have rights, but does have recourse to other legal arguments. I think!

Anyway, none of this is relevant to the M&S recliner, anyway, it was clearly a mistake...