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Can you please explain concretely what your definition of stealing is? To most sane people, it is not stealing when a transaction price is set, and that price
by dnautics 7y ago
Can you please explain concretely what your definition of stealing is?
To most sane people, it is not stealing when a transaction price is set, and that price is paid.
If you buy a car and complete the transaction and as you're driving off the lot the dealership says, sorry, that car is 200,000 not 20,000; would that be stealing? Why or why not?
- mrleinad 7y agoCould it have been obvious the price was 10 times higher than you paid? If yes, then it's stealing. If no, then no.
- petagonoral 7y agoI see this as a negotiation between man and machine. The machine in this case was bad at negotiating.
- astura 7y agoThese sorts of "cutesy" arguments don't hold up in a court of law. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21534526/ns/technology_and_science-security/t/woman-admits-exploiting-glitch-qvc-site/ http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21534526/ns/technology_and_science...
- Kinrany 7y agoThat wasn't a glitch in negotiating. The system knew that the purchase was cancelled but sent the items anyway. It makes perfect sense that the system can legally ask to get those items back.
- dnautics 7y agoIt depends on what the cancellation policy is, if the cancellation policy says that the responsibility to return is on the buyer, then absolutely it's stealing.
- pjc50 7y ago90% discounts are not unheard of.
- dnautics 7y agocan you not think of corner cases to your vague notion of "obviousness"?
- yoz-y 7y agoIn France there is, AFAIK, a law that says that if you buy something when there was a system error setting the price, the company can legally ask you to give the item back. Usually they don't because of the PR problem it could cause but a system mistake does not mean that the item is suddenly free for grabs. I do understand people taking advantage of it though, it's a bit like winning a tiny lottery.