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Compaq mini desktop with 21.5in monitor €69.99

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Landyaddict


    JAMM222 wrote: »
    i reckon this is an elabourate marketing plot! think about it how many of us have € 400 in a credit account burning a hole in our pockets because of this?


    So what you goinga buy with your credit today?


    I know, a 19" mini desktop for........wait for it.........69 euro


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭Dongasaurus


    The fact that you would call them is baffling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,227 ✭✭✭mel123


    ste88m wrote: »
    I just rang Littlewoods on 018112222 and asked what was happening. I was told it's a problem with the system and that both Computer's are being taken off the system. However, she didn't mention if any of the outstanding orders would be honoured.

    But, it looks like the game is up! :(

    God, why didnt someone else think of ringing them to let them know, JUST incase they hadnt already realised.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,751 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    CH3OH wrote: »
    Did anyone else select the "Collect from Compaq Warehouse" on the checkout page. i'm on my way to collect now.
    Did you get it??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19 TheHoban


    Once they have went into the account and took the funds they have entered a leagally binding contract like the AerLingus issue a while back!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭eightyfish


    They called me

    Has anyone who ordered with CC been called?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,396 ✭✭✭lindtee


    eightyfish wrote: »
    Has anyone who ordered with CC been called?

    No.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,751 ✭✭✭podge3


    The fact that you would call them is baffling.
    The fact that someone would order 10 or even 20 is more baffling :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,067 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Play Littlewood's off, Keyboard Cat!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,798 ✭✭✭✭JPA


    If the OP had kept this to himself there was a 10% chance he might have got it.
    But now?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Samsung


    eightyfish wrote: »
    Has anyone who ordered with CC been called?

    no


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭johnfás


    TheHoban wrote: »
    Once they have went into the account and took the funds they have entered a leagally binding contract like the AerLingus issue a while back!

    Not strictly true - Aer Lingus merely decided to honour the bookings (sort of) by offering people who had booked an economy class flight at the price they had booked. They did so on the basis of no prior contract existing and nobody ever brought the matter to court to try and enforce the contract.

    In reality, the best one could hope for if they were to go to court over an issue like this, is damages, which is just the value of what you paid, which they will have refunded to you anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭NIBBS


    podge3 wrote: »
    The fact that someone would order 10 or even 20 is more baffling :rolleyes:

    That's what always gets me too......I just never get why people see a thread like this and then try and order multiples, whatever slight chance there would have been of getting one disappears straight away, it's just pure stupidity........but it always happens once a mistake is published....


  • Registered Users Posts: 330 ✭✭Dexterm99


    johnfás wrote: »
    Not strictly true - Aer Lingus merely decided to honour the bookings (sort of) by offering people who had booked an economy class flight at the price they had booked. They did so on the basis of no prior contract existing and nobody ever brought the matter to court to try and enforce the contract.

    In reality, the best one could hope for if they were to go to court over an issue like this, is damages, which is just the value of what you paid, which they will have refunded to you anyway.

    Lets call Joe Duffy!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭johnfás


    Dexterm99 wrote: »
    Lets call Joe Duffy!!

    I would not be surprised if somebody does tomorrow...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    everyone should request that there Littlewoods account be removed just to piss them off


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,429 ✭✭✭brettmirl


    If they have acknowledged there is a problem, why are they still taking orders for the 19" one?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    basquille wrote: »
    Boards broke Littlewoods!

    lol seriously don't they have anyone in these companies (not just targetting LWs here) that review prices before they go live to a page where the customer(s) can see the mistaken price, order and pay for same?
    A typo can happen to anyone, first day or 20 yrs in...but to let it loose on to the net is downright shoddy. This thread has been up here for about 4-5 hours and people were still managing to access the item page at the faulty price up to a few minutes ago...hello?

    I have to cite my suspicions that such misprices are sometimes construed by companies to generate traffic and hits on their sites, for whatever reason...I mean after all, what a cheap marketing ploy...stick up an obviously incorrect price for a coveted item, let a few bargaiun sites get the link to it and watch the servers light up.

    Anyway it's been fun. Can't wait till next time...I'm really looking forward to not getting my next impossibly good bargain...


  • Registered Users Posts: 30 omni_cube


    How difficult can it be for them to just delete the product from their inventory!? They're just messing about at this stage.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,207 ✭✭✭miralize


    holy ****e.... 70euro??? im buying 3 and selling them for 120


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 690 ✭✭✭givyjoe81


    johnfás wrote: »
    Not strictly true - Aer Lingus merely decided to honour the bookings (sort of) by offering people who had booked an economy class flight at the price they had booked. They did so on the basis of no prior contract existing and nobody ever brought the matter to court to try and enforce the contract.

    In reality, the best one could hope for if they were to go to court over an issue like this, is damages, which is just the value of what you paid, which they will have refunded to you anyway.

    Lads, lets just consider how many orders could have gone through, 12k hits and more on this thread, anywhere up to half could have ordered, not to mention the emails there were surely passed around by person to person, so lets say 5 thousand orders at a loss of 500 euros a pop, 2.5 million in the red from this mistake, no court is ever going to enforce such an error which would prob put littlewoods ireland out of business!

    Considering the magnitude of the error even a thousdand orders is a huge amount of money to be waddling out the door.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Landyaddict


    How difficult can it be for them to just delete the product from their inventory!? They're just messing about at this stage.

    the product code for the 21.5" was PR402, if you try and search for that on the site, no item shows up.
    My orders are stil listed with said product code so.
    1) will the order be refused as no product by that code is listed
    2) The order will continue untill reviewed by a human and then cancelled.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Samsung


    Littlewodd.ie is still down

    Internal Server Error

    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

    Please contact the server administrator, you@example.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,627 ✭✭✭✭okidoki987


    Page down :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26 Bordercat


    I'm calling Johnny Cochran......


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Landyaddict


    Samsung wrote: »
    Littlewodd.ie is still down

    Internal Server Error

    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

    Please contact the server administrator, you@example.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

    No site is running fine for me, I'm in there searching att the moment


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19 TheHoban


    Also, your forgetting about the merchant! Lets say givyjoe81's figures are near correct; The Merchant will be charging around €0.50 on each order which they will lose no matter what they will then charge them becuase of the scale of refunds. They won't be able to keep going if this keeps up.

    Also the fact the items were there for what, 8 hours.

    So we have a company that employ blind, thick staff and are going to lose thousands from this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,489 ✭✭✭CH3OH


    jonny24ie wrote: »
    Did you get it??


    Sorry it was a joke! Did you NOT get it!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 963 ✭✭✭chavezychavez


    TheHoban wrote: »
    Also, your forgetting about the merchant! Lets say givyjoe81's figures are near correct; The Merchant will be charging around €0.50 on each order which they will lose no matter what they will then charge them becuase of the scale of refunds. They won't be able to keep going if this keeps up.

    Also the fact the items were there for what, 8 hours.

    So we have a company that employ blind, thick staff and are going to lose thousands from this.



    Nope, you have a cleanup of Chernobyl proportions on Littlewoods part. I can't see Compaq being too happy about this either.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 30 omni_cube


    This was a rollercoaster of emotions ride.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Daemonic


    Nope, you have a cleanup of Chernobyl proportions on Littlewoods part. I can't see Compaq being too happy about this either.
    If the orders are automatically passed through the Littlewoods site to Compaq it could have been them that alerted Littlewoods to a huge surge in orders.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    Komplett made the mistake in the uk back in 2003 afaik.
    They had 80GBP ram priced at 8GBP and had to honor all orders.

    They lost a lot of money!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,396 ✭✭✭lindtee


    Has anyone who paid by credit card checked their account? (Go to my account at the top) Mine has balance €96 euro, 69 of which is this computer and €27 which is sex and the city. What does this mean? Does it mean I owe them that money or is that the amount my account is in credit? (Sorry off topic)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Landyaddict


    http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01699986&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=ie&os=2093&product=3917883&lang=en


    also, I wonder if this would allow for the windows 7 upgrade offer also,


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭nice1franko


    givyjoe81 wrote: »
    Lads, lets just consider how many orders could have gone through, 12k hits and more on this thread, anywhere up to half could have ordered, not to mention the emails there were surely passed around by person to person, so lets say 5 thousand orders at a loss of 500 euros a pop, 2.5 million in the red from this mistake, no court is ever going to enforce such an error which would prob put littlewoods ireland out of business!

    Considering the magnitude of the error even a thousdand orders is a huge amount of money to be waddling out the door.

    plus the greedies who ordered more than one!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 690 ✭✭✭givyjoe81


    Sparky wrote: »
    Komplett made the mistake in the uk back in 2003 afaik.
    They had 80GBP ram priced at 8GBP and had to honor all orders.

    They lost a lot of money!

    Thing is, these companies are much smarter about this sort of thing, particularly as e-commerce grows, back then they prob didnt have the term protecting them as littlewoods do, they aint gonna fulfill these orders if its sends them under!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Landyaddict


    Well at this late hour of the day. I'd say nothing is going to happen this evening.
    But this will be an interesting thread to read then.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,297 ✭✭✭Ron DMC


    Let's say they noticed the problem shortly after lunchtime.

    Does that mean that they stopped orders then, what happens to orders from 10/11 this morning. If they'd processed as far as Compaq we may be in luck.

    Doubt it but might as well hope.

    To the people who got phone calls, when did you place your orders?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭south


    Sorry, we are having a problem taking you to your chosen area of www.littlewoodsireland.ie but will be fixing it soon.

    Click here to return to the home page.


    coming up now on the op's link


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19 TheHoban


    But this will be an interesting thread to read then.

    Can't wait till Google index it too :D Will make a very interesting read for potential littlewood clients.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 963 ✭✭✭chavezychavez


    I reckon we'll make the Irish Indo before mid week.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Landyaddict


    south wrote: »
    Sorry, we are having a problem taking you to your chosen area of www.littlewoodsireland.ie but will be fixing it soon.

    Click here to return to the home page.


    coming up now on the op's link

    yeah OP link had the product code in the link. Since the pr code has been removed from the LW site, the OP link no longer works.

    If you want go to the LW home page and search for PR401, this is the 19" version


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭polyfusion


    TheHoban wrote: »
    Can't wait till Google index it too :D Will make a very interesting read for potential littlewood clients.


    Already done, and I think since about 1pm too. I was googling for the spec, and this thread was on the first page I could see, without having to scoll down.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19 TheHoban


    polyfusion wrote: »
    Already done, and I think since about 1pm too. I was googling for the spec, and this thread was on the first page I could see, without having to scoll down.

    Lovely, and if they know whats good for business they should honour all orders along with the one i'm just about to place for the 21.5" pc's :)

    (I filled my cart earlier and can still order :p)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,067 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Mr.S wrote: »
    To the few that slipped through the system early and got it dispatched, Littlewoods can send you an invoice for the correct price, asking you to pay up or return the goods.
    I don't think they can!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    We'll you'd think they would nuke the link to the 19" unit also?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19 TheHoban


    Mr.S wrote: »
    To the few that slipped through the system early and got it dispatched, Littlewoods can send you an invoice for the correct price, asking you to pay up or return the goods.

    Ahh now here, they would be told to f*** off by everyone they sent that to


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 690 ✭✭✭givyjoe81


    Mr.S wrote: »
    Whats the big fuss?

    Business do not have to honnour miss prices, they can refund and tell you to **** off.

    Even if the order was passed onto the supplier, Littlewoods would have noticed because of the high amounts of orders, then would have noticed the pricing error and would have informed the supplier not to dispatch any of the orders.

    To the few that slipped through the system early and got it dispatched, Littlewoods can send you an invoice for the correct price, asking you to pay up or return the goods.

    They absolutely cannot do the latter, even if it wasnt in their contract that title passes to you upon delivery, there is simply no legal basis for them doing so. Imagine walking about of an electronics shop being chased by the assistant, 'here, give the rest of 500 bills which i forgot to charge you',!


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