Just been glancing through Drivethedeal.com website.
I've found a car which gives a list price of £175 which I've managed to get a discount on down to £125 !!!!
If I check the same make of car but other models the list prices are showing correctly.
The list price should be in the region of £9k.
So what do reckon? Surely there is no way I can win this one ???
Even worse, I try it, they obviously spot the mistake and then adjust the price and then I'm committed to buy !!
Will post details of car if I win !!
Edited by Honestjohn on 02/07/2009 at 23:16
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Not a cat in hells chance !!
The prices are just guides to what the dealer will charge and how they work they is they get the dealer to contact you and sort out the deal and paper work !!
I think you will find it would not get very far
Edited by Honestjohn on 02/07/2009 at 23:17
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Just read the Ts&Cs. Price is only a guideline.
Oh well!!
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In legal terms the advertised price is 'an invitation to treat' - a starting point.
Goods tend to be advertised a their correct selling price because to do otherwise would annoy the customer and be bad for business.
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Drive the deal are, in my experience, are decent firm and clearly there's an error. Surely you wouldn't seriously expect them, or want them, to lose/give you £9,000?? Yet the absence of "smileys" would maybe indicate your enquiry sounds almost serious?
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>>>>Surely you wouldn't seriously expect them, or want them, to lose/give you >>>>£9,000?? Yet the absence of "smileys" would maybe indicate your enquiry sounds >>>>almost serious?
It's worth a go though don't you think? Probably wont happen but it's always worth a shot.
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When I bought my Panda Cross the consensus of opinion was that the internet seller had posted the wrong, low, price. OK, only talking about around £500 but the price was honoured.
However, no company would honour the crazy, low price that you mention and I don't think it's worth trying.
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It's worth a go though don't you think? Probably wont happen but it's always worth a shot. >>
Since you ask, No, I don't think so. I think it is immoral to take advantage of someone's honest mistake or error.
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"It's worth a go though don't you think?" .....Well, is it? If the boot was on the other foot I can, understandably, see backroomers complaining mercilessly if a dealer used a loophole and took them for £9k, but we're here saying that it's worth trying to get £9k from an honest medium sized business who is recommended often here by members and by HJ on his recommended sellers listing. Got to be honest it sounds unpleasant to me. We all like a bargain and if it was, as was said above, a smaller amount that the dealer might swallow then that's one thing, but £9k from a private company trying to survive in todays climate is another.
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I'm not sure the price was a 'mistake' - it could just have been a ploy to get you to contact the dealer and it worked!
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" it could just have been a ploy"........Well we're not going to know that. Can't, myself, see the advantage of customers clogging their phone lines asking them for something for nothing only to be told the obvious... and in so doing risking incurring the wrath of suitably disappointed prospective (or not) customers. We are frequently urged here to contact the brokers and get their best price and then go along, quote in hand, to get the local main dealer to match and so do not have it all their own way. I've no axe to grind but on this occasion feel inclined to lean towards the broker in question, who, in my limited dealings has been fair and doesn't deserve attempts to fleece them wholesale or suggestions of possible underhand practices. Just my three penn'rth.
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Can't believe anyone is naive enough to believe they could pay £175 for a £9,000 item because of a typo on a computer screen.
The 'worth a try' posts are typical of the grasping, something-for-nothing culture which seems very prevalent in the Britain of the early 21st centrury.
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So do you pay full price for eveything?
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"So do you pay full price for eveything?" With the utmost respect I don't think you've read the thread otherwise you'd have seen that it is accepted that had it been a lesser figure which could have seriously been considered by the seller then, yes, everyone likes a bargain. Speaking personally...very often you have to pay what's asked. You can't haggle with much of what you buy - other times then obviously you'd get something for less if you could and I do! Surely you will have recognised that we're here talking about a somewhat ludicrous suggestion that you could, by a loophole, should it have existed, deprive a legitimate trader of the entire value of a £9k transaction (all bar £175).
I think this is heading for the realms of fantasy and step back awhile.
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So do you pay full price for eveything? >>
If that is aimed at me, the answer is I do not cheat people out of a decent living by taking advantage of their innocent mistake.
Just think about it from the retailer's point of view. I have done some quick back of the envelope calculations [fingers crossed that there are no errors]:
Say a retailer has 25 items to sell and he calculates to sells them at £100 to get a 5% NET profit margin.
His assitant discounts the first one and sells it in error for £76 .
That means the retailer now needs to sell the remaining 24 items at an ncreased price of £101 to recover from the mistake, i.e. his margin has to go up from £5 per item to £6 per item, an increase of 20%.
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As we have discussed elsewhere, I really urge everyone to stop thinking like this. Sellers of any product need to stop chasing the fast buck and consumers need to stop chasing the unreasonable discount. The only way we are all going to re-establish any form of economic stability is a common spirit of fairness. Fair prices charged and fair prices paid. This has never been more important. Mark my words.
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I guess I should have included some of those smiley faces ;) in my original comment and perhaps it wouldn't have brought out all this bad feeling.
It was meant to just be a light hearted thread!
Personally although I do believe there are bargains to be had in this world, I'm a firm believer in the saying that "If it's too good to be true then it usually is". This kind of deal would therefore firmly fit into the latter.
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S&TB - For my part, my apologies. I was not intending to have a go at any individual. Least of all you. I hope I understood your post and its levity. However, it was a good vehicle for me to express a forlorn and frankly naive hope. No personal jibe intended.
I am very worried about our future. We really need to pull together. Sadly, we won't of course. Greed is endemic.
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