is it true that store has to sell the product of its misprinted price?

[dpgc4life]

I saw a misprint tv price in futureshop.ca, they sell for 25.99 instead of 2599, and i placed my order online, is it true they have to sell the tv at its misprinted price

[aidzhsiah]

Nope.

Most companies usually have a clause that they have the right to cancel your order or don't have to honor price errors.

http://www.futureshop.ca/information...gon=&langid=EN

5. MISPRINTS AND ERRORS, PRODUCT AVAILABILITY AND PRICES

Future Shop endeavours to provide current and accurate information on the Website. However, misprints, errors, inaccuracies, omissions (including incorrect specifications for products) or other errors may sometimes occur. Future Shop cannot guarantee that products and services advertised on the Website will be available when ordered or thereafter. Future Shop does not warrant that the content of the Website including, without limitation, product descriptions or photographs, is accurate or complete.

Future Shop reserves the right to: (a) correct any error, inaccuracy or omission at any time without prior notice or liability to you or any other person; (b) change at any time the products and services advertised or made available for sale on the Website, the prices, fees, charges and specifications of such products and services, any promotional offers and any other Website content without any notice or liability to you or any other person; (c) reject, correct, cancel or terminate any order, including accepted orders for any reason and (d) limit quantities available for sale or sold.

The advertisements on the Website are invitations to you to make offers to purchase products and services on the Website and are not offers to sell. All prices and other amounts appearing on the Website are quoted in Canadian dollars.

Sometimes they'll do the orders anyway... but I doubt they'll let this one go. It sometimes helps though if you ask for like Next Day Shipping... so they'll ship it out before they catch the error. LOL no chance on a TV though.

[dpgc4life]

I occasionly heard story of how store is forced to sell the products at its misprint price, so what's the deal with those, i know in some states in us, the consumer protection law says it is illegal to cancel the order even if it is an error, donno if it works in canada.

[NLI10D]

two things protect the store under the law (from what i can remember studying in PPE)

the little fine print that says they have the right to refuse error blah blah blah

secondly any flyers and advertising is an invitation to buy not a contract to sell

[tridium]

Also, for clarification, a pricing error is not the same as a bait and switch. I e-mailed the BBB and they defined it pretty nicely for me. A pricing error is pretty self-explanatory. A bait and switch however, is when they advertise a product at a lower price but have no stock to begin with and then offer you a similar product at a higher pricing. Bait and switch is illegal, while not honoring a pricing error is totally up to the store.

[bujanx]

Nice price error, which tv was it?