I would guess it has something to do with the RRP of the CE being £60 and them only charging £40. They do state that they'll honour any previous orders, but now the RRP has been confirmed, they'll wanna stop anyone else ordering it for £40.
I'd expect it to come up fairly soon at £59.99 but your order at £39.99 should stand
buying stuff through the internet (so ordering it) is a binding contract. If you already ordered it for a certain price, they're obliged to give it to you for that certain price. So you shouldn't worry, you'll get what you ordered
That isn't even close to being true.
hmmm, I see... the same thing happened a while ago in Belgium in a shop where they sold TVs... they'd completely underpriced a giant plasma-TV, and people who had ordered it before that shop noticed the cock-up actually got the TV for that price. It seemed the right thing to do for the shop.
So by this I was kinda led to believe all online contracts are binding... but as the article states: only when they sent mail confirming it. Ah well, I still wish you all the luck in the world
You may have noticed that the price of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures on the GAME site has gone up to 24.99 GBP
Please do not worry, your credit / debit card will be charged with the lower amount as originally agreed when you placed the order. This is merely one of the benefits of the GAME 1st To Play Preorder Service!
This is a note on the order form from "Game":
Note: The price quoted for a preorder title is the anticipated retail selling price at the time of release. Should the price be reduced you will be charged the lower price at the time of your order being dispatched. Should the price increase - you will not pay any more! Money is taken just prior to release.
I just hope they dont cancel it all together
yes it is... for instance if some shop online notes a certain problem costs X dollars, and you order it for that amount, they have to sell it to you for that amount. So when a shop has an item that normally costs let's say 199 dollars, but they make a typo and sell it for 19.9dollars online, when you order it, you'll only have to pay 19.9 dollars.
So maybe it's not a binding contract in definition, but they do have to do what they say they'll do online, so that makes it a binding contract to me.
Game have always been 'sales person selling to customer', much like most of the retailers, it's Game Station that were the 'gamers working and selling to other gamers', I know people that have worked in both and say thats the difference between them.
Dispite the name 'Game' is a busness they are really only interested in you parting your money with them not making sure you pick the correct choice for you from experience.
Game Station were bought out by Game last year, they still operate as a separate brandname but its all the same company.
Still havent heard anything from Game regarding my order - I have every confidence they will honour their £40 offer
Play.com are still listing it and IainC told us that they going to be very careful not to oversell their allocation so go for it.I hope so but as one of their employees has said they are going to cancel the order I dont hold much hope ................................To play.com
Play.com are still listing it and IainC told us that they going to be very careful not to oversell their allocation so go for it.
rofl, somebody at game fucks up..........
"yeah ,that thing we said we would sell you at 40 pounds and if the price went up we wouldn't charge you any more for, well ,we erm kind of fucked up and we don't like seeling things that make us no money so rather than sticking to our printed website terms we will just stop selling the software you ordered, uptil such time as you forget that we ever sold it and then we will replace it with THE EXACT SAME THING priced at 59.99"
nice to see them thinking of the gamers they sell their products to.... NOT
good customer service all round i say, give game 3 cheers
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hmmm, I see... the same thing happened a while ago in Belgium in a shop where they sold TVs... they'd completely underpriced a giant plasma-TV, and people who had ordered it before that shop noticed the cock-up actually got the TV for that price. It seemed the right thing to do for the shop.
So by this I was kinda led to believe all online contracts are binding... but as the article states: only when they sent mail confirming it. Ah well, I still wish you all the luck in the world