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> The court ruled that a sales contract is not binding if the buyer can reasonably suspect that the price shown is so absurdly low that an error on the side of
by nickjj 7y ago
> The court ruled that a sales contract is not binding if the buyer can reasonably suspect that the price shown is so absurdly low that an error on the side of the seller is apparent.
How can you prove something like that in court in this camera case?
For example, let's say you were just getting into photography and were window shopping by browsing around Amazon's site.
You run into a camera that has a 4.7 average rating with 3,000+ reviews and the example pictures that people were posting look great to you. You have no idea about camera specs but you see it for $149, so you buy it. That doesn't seem too unrealistic, especially not when phones cost $1,000. You could totally think "oh, well $150 for just a camera sounds about right".
- JustFinishedBSG 7y agoBecause you can infer that the "-99%" near the price is weird.
- nickjj 7y agoThe a6000 is normally $550 and was marked down to $95. That's not a big enough discount to infer it was a price mistake. Especially not when Amazon advertises this as one of the biggest discount days of the year.
- tripzilch 7y agoAnd it's quite possible that a Dutch court would rule different in that particular case.
- ryanmercer 7y ago>How can you prove something like that in court in this camera case? Go look at the screenshots in the article it shows the prime savings at checkout: >Prime Savings -$1,204.52 That is a pretty clear indication that "wow, this is astronomically discounted" which should reasonably clue any adult with their full mental faculties in to "something strange is going on here".
- XorNot 7y agoAm I missing something here? A $1200 markdown isn't impossibly large.
- ryanmercer 7y agoIt's a 1200$ markdown on a 1300$ item.
- michaelt 7y agoI have Steam sales offering me games with 90% off, Groupon offering me 88% off a gym membership, and a local perpetually-going-out-of-business menswear shop offering me 90% off everything. Amazon themselves advertise used books priced from £0.01! Admittedly, many camera enthusiasts probably knew the market rate for this sort of equipment - but the fact something has a 90% discount doesn't automatically prove it's mispriced.
- ryanmercer 7y agoSoftware which is infinitely reproducible for (effectively) free once it is made, is a lot different than high end lenses and very complicated cameras with costly electronics and worked optical glass.