On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:43:51 +0000, MM wrote:
>>Tell me, if you were to advertise your car for sale in the local
>>paper, but due to a typing error you advertised it at £200 instead of
>>the intended £2000, would *you* feel obliged to give it to the first
>>person who was willing to give you £200?
>
>Yes. It would be entirely *my* fault, no one else's. Otherwise, who's
>to say that the price quoted at, say, £2000 isn't also an "error" if I
>can see that the bloke really wants the item and I can charge him
>£2500, pretending that I made an "error". This is a very weird
>Kafkaesque world we are entering, if you ask me, where nothing is
>quite what it seems.
How about if it was the newspaper's error, but they claim it was your
error. The buyer doesn't know, so should you still honor the price -
seeing that that is the only price the buyer saw.
Or maybe you cannot be 100% certain *who* made the error.
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Cynic
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