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(06-22-2016, 09:51 AM)Mayhem Wrote: Here in Australia a vendor has to honour a price/discount if it is advertised, regardless of whether it is a mistake or not. Is this the same in the US?
It's suppose to be the same here, but I've found one needs to be quite assertive sometimes. Given that I've gone to Home Depot (one of our big box stores) with an add from a competitor and they matched the price W/O any hassle. Then of course I also received my 10% veteran's discount on top of the match.
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(06-22-2016, 09:51 AM)Mayhem Wrote: Here in Australia a vendor has to honour a price/discount if it is advertised, regardless of whether it is a mistake or not. Is this the same in the US?
99% of the time they have fine print which says they don't have to honor an advertised price if is due to an error or misprint. I've personally only had ONE company that honored an online advertised price that was printed in error. (MidwayUSA) They honored it for everyone that placed an order with them
before they corrected their error. They accidentally printed a sale price for ammunition that was 10 years old, and plenty of people took them up on it. It only took about two hours for them to catch it and update it to the current price instead. Most companies that I know of would have flat out canceled every order without telling the buyer.
The one thing Enco is/was bad about was not updating their online prices though. The checkout price was almost always higher than the online catalog price, and again they have fine print saying they can change prices without notice at any time.
Willie
