Charged Wrong Price What Can They Do About It

[bednobs]

Hi I recently ordered something and it was deliveted and invoiced and the invoice has been paid. However on the website and on the invoice they got the price wrong by a factor of ten. Obviously it would be very nice to get something for one tenth of the normal price but I would have ordered it anyway even at ten times the price. Leaving morals aside, now it's been received and paid for, could they make me pay the extra? To complicate matters i have a regular order for other stuff on the website three times a week so have an account with a direct debit. Could they just take extra on the dd when they realise?

[bednobs]

and just checked again - still the lower price!

[Bazile]

//lol i probably wont feel better by telling them about their mistake - i would feel bettr paying 10% of the real price i think :)
I'm not entirely sure what the answer was that was removed, but from the next reply, i presume it was someone giving me a tongue lashing :) //

The word ' theft' was used in the posters comment .
Hence , i challenged him/her as to why he/she thought it was theft .

I'm not saying that you should not bring it to their attention
However i dont see how what you did can be considered theft - perhaps someone can explain ?

[tonywiltshire]

I agree Bazile under the theft act theft or stealing means dishonestly appropriating property (which includes money and all other property) belonging to another person with the intention of permanently depriving the other person of it. From the same source dishonest appropriation is a person who has acquired property through another person’s mistake and has taken advantage of it.
Many people will be familiar with the well-known consumer law decision in Pharmaceutical Society v Boots 1952 that when customers take goods to the checkout they are making an offer to purchase and the store by displaying prices is making an invitation to treat only not an offer so the store can reject the offer made by the consumer.