Petition forces M&S to honour orders after pricing error puts £1,099 TVs on sale for £199

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Petition forces M&S to honour orders after pricing error puts £1,099 TVs on sale for £199

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 20th January 2012 18:38.

An online petition has helped force M&S to honour orders for Panasonic 50 inch 3D plasma televisions after shoppers snapped up the sets for just...

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Re: Petition forces M&S to honour orders after pricing error puts £1,099 TVs on sale for £199

Heard this on the new in my car today, Fair play to M&S though as I am sure they did not have to honour the miss-quoted price.

[Paul.]

Re: Petition forces M&S to honour orders after pricing error puts £1,099 TVs on sale for £199

Heard this on the new in my car today, Fair play to M&S though as I am sure they did not have to honour the miss-quoted price.

no they dont im afraid,

A item on display is often considered an invitation to treat in contract law. Thus an invitation to treat is not an offer open to be accepted. ( see partridge v Crittenden ) so the problem is the store does not have to sell at that price.

However, if the offer is open to the world and is open for acceptance as an offer, then it can be accepted on those terms displayed ( see Carlil v Carbolic smoke ball)

So its not as clear cut as it may first seem

[Paul.]

Re: Petition forces M&S to honour orders after pricing error puts £1,099 TVs on sale for £199

However, the contract was completed it seems in these cases, therefore i would say they do have to sell at the contract price agreed.

Id sue for damages if i were the person faced with that problem,