Who got this smokin’ deal on this Goudey Foxx??!

[egbeachley]

Originally Posted by Rookiemonster

Aaaaaaa yeah you can. If I walk into a store and it says milk is a dollar a gallon you better give the gallon of milk for a dollar. It’s bad business any other way. People make errors every day in life that cost them, do they get a redo?
It’s not like the card listed it self. Anyone who has listed a card on eBay knows
That you have to create the listing and then it ask you to proof it. Then you get to Look at the listing and push LIST IT.

You are absolutely 100% incorrect here. While a store might honor the price in your example because it’s so small, they do not have to honor an incorrect price that was published by mistake and it happens all the time, usually when the decimal was misplaced.

This is not the same as bait-and-switch in which it’s deliberate.

[Rookiemonster]

Originally Posted by egbeachley

You are absolutely 100% incorrect here. While a store might honor the price in your example because it’s so small, they do not have to honor an incorrect price that was published by mistake and it happens all the time, usually when the decimal was misplaced.

This is not the same as bait-and-switch in which it’s deliberate.

If it was published in a circular and you went to the store for that reason. Then that is false advertisement. This is not allowed and must be honored or dealt with by the law in many states. Maybe we are not talking about decimals.

If you get a misquote from a roofing company that’s in your favor of a thousand dollars and you agree. How if that your fault? And the company will honor this mistake. But enough with the apples and oranges.


The issue here is what it is. The buyer didn’t know it was a mistake. For all they knew it was a great price. The card was listed after being proofed by a professional multi million dollar company.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by Rookiemonster

The issue here is what it is. The buyer didn’t know it was a mistake. For all they knew it was a great price. The card was listed after being proofed by a professional multi million dollar company.

Most likely the buyer did know it was a mistake. Few people buy something for 250.00 not knowing if it was worth 25 or 1250. The value of the card is easily researchable online. There is no law that will make Probstein honor the sale. It would be one thing pricing a cheap card at 20%, but not on a 1250.00 card. No one should expect to get the card mailed to them in a case like this.

[KCRfan1]

Originally Posted by rats60

Most likely the buyer did know it was a mistake. Few people buy something for 250.00 not knowing if it was worth 25 or 1250. The value of the card is easily researchable online. There is no law that will make Probstein honor the sale. It would be one thing pricing a cheap card at 20%, but not on a 1250.00 card. No one should expect to get the card mailed to them in a case like this.

+1

Agreed.

There is no way I let an item of this value walk out of my store at that price. And I have no problem telling a customer that. As a retailer, we do the best we can with prices and mistakes are made.

Reasonable errors can be resolved, however ANY customer expecting a 1250 item for 250 is being unreasonable.

[packs]

I seem to remember something about an eBay sale being a contract....

It's interesting to see people side with the seller here. If a buyer told you they bid the wrong amount by mistake I think people would be singing a different tune as to the validity of that excuse.