"Cynic" wrote in message
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> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:49:07 +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.
>
>>>Then you are far too obliging. Legally, there is no obligation on you to
>>>sell at the advertised price. The only obligation that you have is not
>>>to
>>>advertise a misleading price in order to gain some advantage. But a one
>>>off
>>>sale is never going to fail this test.
>
>>So Cynic's scenario is entirely erroneous!
>
> I posed a perfectly common scenario and asked a question. How can
> that be erroneous?
It wasn't.
But any assumption that the seller was obliged to honour the price was.
As is any assumption that a pricing mistake made by a newspaper when
priniting an advert has any similarity in law to a pricing mistake made by a
supermarket when sticking labels on items.
tim
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