On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:31:14 +0000, Cynic
wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:38:42 +0000, MM wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:47:04 -0000, "Steve Walker"
>> wrote:
>>
>>>MM wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:50:32 +0000, Cynic
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>What if your paid agent (the newspaper) made that error?
>>
>>They'd have to correct it at their expense, e.g. republish the
>>corrected advert for free in the next edition.
>
>That would be a bit pointless after you have just sold your £2000 car
>for £200 and are thus £1800 out of pocket.
I wouldn't have sold it, because it was not my error. In the case of
the store in question, it patently *was* their error. (Unless you can
believe that it's newspaper editors who actually come into the store
to apply the price labels as a kind of a nice gesture.)
MM |