Atomic HOT if they honor it

I like this line,
HP is not liable for pricing errors. If you place an order for a product that was incorrectly priced, we will cancel your order and credit you for any charges.
In the event that we inadvertently ship an order based on a pricing error, we will issue a revised invoice to you for the correct price and contact you to obtain your authorization for the additional charge, or assist you with return of the product.
If the pricing error results in an overcharge to you, HP will credit your account for the amount overcharged.
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Zepher said:
I like this line,
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That's hilarious, considering they aren't legally (as far as I know, I am not a lawyer) entitled to anything back. Once they've sent it to you, it's technically yours.

In for 1 imaginary computer, since there's no chance in heck it'll ship :D.
 
Not too big of an IF for me. Bought two. Will let everyone know how badly it turns out.
 
Deathskythee said:
its on slickdeal, youre not gonna get it
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nah, it's not normal slick deals bs, HP website error
Here is what HP is not going to ship me for 75 bucks:rolleyes:

Windows 7 Ultimate [64-bit]
AMD FX-8150 eight-core processor [3.6GHz, 8MB L2/8MB L3 Cache]
16GB DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM [4 DIMMs]
256GB Solid state drive
1TB 7200 rpm SATA hard drive
1TB 7200 rpm SATA hard drive
SAVE $40 Microsoft(R) Office Home and Student 2010 + Adobe Acrobat X Standard [$418 value]
No additional security software
3GB AMD Radeon HD 7950 [Dual Bracket, DVI, HDMI, 2x mini-DP]
600W Power supply
Blu-ray writer & SuperMulti DVD burner
Premium Wireless-N LAN card and Bluetooth(R )(2x2)
15-in-1 memory card reader, 4 USB 2.0 (front), 2 USB 3.0 (top)
TV tuner, ATSC-NTSC with PVR, remote
Beats Audio (tm) -- integrated studio quality sound
HP backlit Beats keyboard & optical mouse
SAVE $20 on Roxio Creator 2012
FREE Adobe(R) Premiere Elements & Photoshop 10 [$149 value]
 
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GoldenTiger said:
That's hilarious, considering they aren't legally (as far as I know, I am not a lawyer) entitled to anything back. Once they've sent it to you, it's technically yours.
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My best friend is a lawyer with his own firm. A lot of his cases are against companies for doing things they are not allowed to do or that fall in grey areas.

They wont bill your credit card without authorization because they could lose their agreement with the credit card companies to be able to accept credit cards. But it costs them almost nothing to send you and invoice, send it to collection when you don't pay and put a mark on your credit report.

Now if you get a lawyer to fight your case you will most likely win. But you will spend 10 times the money you are saving in lawyer fees. But I agree that they will catch this before anything ever ships so it's really a non issue.
 
The customer service lady said that my order, although already approved, was going to be automatically cancelled due to the price error. Of course I thoroughly thanked her when she informed me that the error had been corrected and I could now pay $2,000 more for the item. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. :)
 
Thanks for making it obvious with the title, but I was curious to see what tom foolery was going down this time! :p
 
robothunter said:
My best friend is a lawyer with his own firm. A lot of his cases are against companies for doing things they are not allowed to do or that fall in grey areas.

They wont bill your credit card without authorization because they could lose their agreement with the credit card companies to be able to accept credit cards. But it costs them almost nothing to send you and invoice, send it to collection when you don't pay and put a mark on your credit report.

Now if you get a lawyer to fight your case you will most likely win. But you will spend 10 times the money you are saving in lawyer fees. But I agree that they will catch this before anything ever ships so it's really a non issue.
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You will lose that case every time if you were to fight it. The Uniform Commercial Code protects sellers who make a pricing error. Your options are to return the incorrect item or pay the difference. If you order Item A and receive Item B which costs more you pay the difference or return the item you received. Very cut and dry.
 
weuntouchable said:
If you order Item A and receive Item B which costs more you pay the difference or return the item you received. Very cut and dry.
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Is that what they are discussing here though? I know if you walk into a store and an item doesn't ring up at the same price as the sign, you sure as heck get it at the sign price, or Weights and Measures can drop a hammer on that store.
 
weuntouchable said:
You will lose that case every time if you were to fight it. The Uniform Commercial Code protects sellers who make a pricing error. Your options are to return the incorrect item or pay the difference. If you order Item A and receive Item B which costs more you pay the difference or return the item you received. Very cut and dry.
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Except in this case you're not receiving Item B. You receive exactly what you order and pay for. This is an easy case to win even in small claims court.
 
DOOMHAMMA said:
Is that what they are discussing here though? I know if you walk into a store and an item doesn't ring up at the same price as the sign, you sure as heck get it at the sign price, or Weights and Measures can drop a hammer on that store.
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Doesn't apply to etailers. For an etailer something like this can but them out of business because of the volume. In a retail setting they can go fix the sign after the first customer, online hundreds of thousands of orders could be placed before any one catches it.
 
DOOMHAMMA said:
Is that what they are discussing here though? I know if you walk into a store and an item doesn't ring up at the same price as the sign, you sure as heck get it at the sign price, or Weights and Measures can drop a hammer on that store.
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The law protects both parties. The law does not obligate a store to honor a pricing error and a consumer has no legal recourse to get an item at a cheaper advertised price if it is determined to be an error. If a store is intentionally having items ring up higher then what is marked then a consumer could have a legal argument, but much more likely they would just be given the opportunity to get their money back.
 
Teenk9 said:
Except in this case you're not receiving Item B. You receive exactly what you order and pay for. This is an easy case to win even in small claims court.
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Its a pricing error. The law protects sellers from pricing errors and does not force them to honor them.
 
weuntouchable said:
Its a pricing error. The law protects sellers from pricing errors and does not force them to honor them.
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It's a different story once it's been delivered and received by the purchaser. If they catch it beforehand the vendor is under no obligation to honor the order. But the once the whole transaction is complete (paid for, signed, and delivered) the purchaser is under no obligation to honor a new invoice.
 
Teenk9 said:
It's a different story once it's been delivered and received by the purchaser. If they catch it beforehand the vendor is under no obligation to honor the order. But the once the whole transaction is complete (paid for, signed, and delivered) the purchaser is under no obligation to honor a new invoice.
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Please read the UCC. You couldn't be more wrong.
 
I think all threads like this need to have "Possibly price mistake" right in the thread title, or get locked.

Plus, the title didn't even say what the product was, or the price. Epic fail all around.
 
GoldenTiger said:
That's hilarious, considering they aren't legally (as far as I know, I am not a lawyer) entitled to anything back. Once they've sent it to you, it's technically yours.
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True, when no contract is signed... Stores that you don't have signed contracts with (those that do would be Sam's Club, Costco, BJ's, etc.) aren't legally even allowed to check your bags after you buy stuff. But ordering online on a site with terms that state that may be considered equivalent to signing a contract in which case it may be legal. Either way, I will now be even MORE sure to never buy an HP product, especially from their own site. That technically could be invoked any time they wanted it to if it's considered signing a contract - I don't care if it would cause a s***storm for them - I care that it is possible. And even if it ends up NOT being legally considered a contract, I will STILL not buy from them simply because they tried to abuse the system that way.

I strongly disliked HP going into this thread, but somehow I dislike them even more as I exit it.
 
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FemmeFatale said:
Why not? I am actually doing them a favor by buying stuff from them so that they don't go out of business.
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Yea that's it..... Because we all know you stay in business by selling products for WAAAAY below the price paid for them.....
 
I just built a $4800 machine and it showed up as such in the checkout price. So sad. Seriously.
 
dandragonrage said:
True, when no contract is signed... Stores that you don't have signed contracts with (those that do would be Sam's Club, Costco, BJ's, etc.) aren't legally even allowed to check your bags after you buy stuff. But ordering online on a site with terms that state that may be considered equivalent to signing a contract in which case it may be legal. Either way, I will now be even MORE sure to never buy an HP product, especially from their own site. That technically could be invoked any time they wanted it to if it's considered signing a contract - I don't care if it would cause a s***storm for them - I care that it is possible. And even if it ends up NOT being legally considered a contract, I will STILL not buy from them simply because they tried to abuse the system that way.

I strongly disliked HP going into this thread, but somehow I dislike them even more as I exit it.
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Scumbag HardForumer

Tries to rip off HP.

Gets mad because they try to protect themselves.
 
I think they just fixed the problem...pricing error no longer exists, at least for me that is!
 
NKDietrich said:
Scumbag HardForumer

Tries to rip off HP.

Gets mad because they try to protect themselves.
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Replace "HP" with "Any company ever" and it would be more accurate. You always get this massively entitled douchery in these price mistake threads. There's like this crazy outrage when people can't get the 10 machines they ordered at 75% off normal price. :rolleyes:
 
MavericK96 said:
Replace "HP" with "Any company ever" and it would be more accurate. You always get this massively entitled douchery in these price mistake threads. There's like this crazy outrage when people can't get the 10 machines they ordered at 75% off normal price. :rolleyes:
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Yeah I love the attitude people have on these things. The way I see it, it's like the bank. If money is mistakenly deposited in your account, that doesn't make it yours. Even if you withdraw and spend it, enjoy your negative balance, shot credit rating, and potential criminal charges.

People are entitled to make occasional clerical mistakes, and that doesn't give someone a license to try and take advantage of it. On top of that, to get angry that they won't honor your obvious attempt to rip them off in the first place?

You'd have to be a really special type of scumbag.
 
NKDietrich said:
Scumbag HardForumer

Tries to rip off HP.

Gets mad because they try to protect themselves.
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Except that I have never tried to rip off HP or any other store; that's just a crummy policy. I would stop shopping at ANY online store that implemented that policy. We are not here to be their price police. They can cancel orders all they want, but they are NOT allowed to change the price as far as I'm concerned. Even still, I did not order this, nor would I have even if they didn't have such a ridiculous policy. The orders would so obviously be canceled. The people who saw this deal would have had a slight chance if they'd kept quiet though, haha.
 
Biznatch said:
Yea that's it..... Because we all know you stay in business by selling products for WAAAAY below the price paid for them.....
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How do you know what they paid for their parts? Could be $20. I pay them $70 for the computer, that could means $50 profit. Do you have HP inventory to say that what I pay is below what they paid? Show me some proof.
 
dandragonrage said:
Except that I have never tried to rip off HP or any other store; that's just a crummy policy. I would stop shopping at ANY online store that implemented that policy. We are not here to be their price police. They can cancel orders all they want, but they are NOT allowed to change the price as far as I'm concerned. Even still, I did not order this, nor would I have even if they didn't have such a ridiculous policy. The orders would so obviously be canceled. The people who saw this deal would have had a slight chance if they'd kept quiet though, haha.
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"We're entitled a fair chance to correct pricing mistakes." is pretty far from a ridiculous policy.

Lets put the shoe on the other foot. You give a cashier a $100 instead of a $10 and neither of you catch it right away. You realize your mistake when you get into the car, but you've already got your groceries, they've already got your cash.

Are you going to say "Damn, my bad." or are you going to try and get your $90 back?
 
NKDietrich said:
"We're entitled a fair chance to correct pricing mistakes." is pretty far from a ridiculous policy.

Lets put the shoe on the other foot. You give a cashier a $100 instead of a $10 and neither of you catch it right away. You realize your mistake when you get into the car, but you've already got your groceries, they've already got your cash.

Are you going to say "Damn, my bad." or are you going to try and get your $90 back?
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Consumer rights are different and this is a poor comparison. Only the direct comparison of a store accidentally selling an item for $10 (NOT being shorted $90 by a sneaky customer, but their own error) and they come chasing you into the parking lot demanding either $90 or a return of the item they sold you.

Canceling orders is fine. Anything beyond that is NOT fine and never will be. Period.
 
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Some of you have the most bizarre attitude and approach to business and life in general.
 
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