Dude, I never said it's okay. The people who take advantage of obvious mistakes are greedy vultures and maybe some really really naive people. I don't mind people doing it if they hate the corporation though. Why should someone not take advantage of a corporation he or she hates? But a store should honor their deals.
Name the time and place.

I never saw it that way until now. By taking an advantage of an error, you are teaching a corporation, some responsibility.

Ooooooh shiiiiiet.

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EDIT : Don't hate me please.

He was being ironic, but you failed to understand it.

Translates to, we are not responsible for anything because we suck.

I grabbed that from their site about Condition of Use, so don't hate me. And don't blame me.

I'm just explaining things...

I should buy a T shirt with similar text on it. I wonder if it would work. With no more responsibility, life would be so grand. I could just walk up to someone, kick him in the nuts because I was really drunk and the police officer would read my shirt and be like, Damn, I can't arrest you because you aren't responsible for anything. I'd marry a woman, then cheat on her, then disappear on her and leave her homeless because I failed to realize how ugly she was when we first met. I'm not responsible for anything, after all. Life would be so grand. I'd make deals with people, take their money and disappear because later I realized I made bad deals even though those people were counting on me and by backing out, I fucked things up for their businesses. I'd give them their money back of course but damage already done. But who cares? Not my problem. Ahh, the life of no responsibility. With such a shirt, I could cheat on my next wife, and tell her, honey, I made a mistake, I got drunk and then wasn't able to control myself. And then she will be like, okay, no problem after seeing that I'm not responsible for anything!

Okay,
But the thing I understand now is that, it's meant to every BB costumer, clearly stated, so, they can't blame BB knowing this (Well you can blame those who posted the item, making such mistake and made people angry). If they doesn't like it, they just need to find another store.
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I wouldn't be so sure about it. I don't know how US laws are, but here in Brazil stores don't have to honor deals when a mistake is so obvious that the price is completely unrealistic. Stores do have to honor their deals even when a mistake is made, but when it's obvious and unrealistic our Courts usually don't oblige them to honor these deals.

BB's TOS does state that they can correct an error and revoke the offer at anytime even if the credit card has been charged, though.

Those words posted by BB make no difference. No matter what, they should be responsible when it comes to deals. Just because they say they aren't responsible doesn't mean they shouldn't be responsible when it comes to deals.. Why are you treating such corporate douche text as the words of God?


I'm glad i don't live in Brazil then because I wouldn't want to live in a country with courts like that. And when did a TOS = the words of God? Fuck the TOS.

I'm not singling anyone out, so don't think I'm pointing at you in particular.

Interesting wording, in that I see "mistake" and "deal" as being two completely different things. To me a mistake is accidentally putting Metro online for a penny, while a deal is someone deciding to sell it for a penny, intentionally posting it that way, and then having second-thoughts about it after-the-fact. This particular instance was the first, not the second, case.

How each is dealt with afterwards, well, that's where it can get tricky. In this case, I suspect most folks would be more than happy with a $25 gift card, half-off the game, or something like that. Hell, they oughta be ecstatic since they'd be getting something for nothing.

A mistake and a deal = same thing. A mistake doesn't give you a break a deal get out of jail type card. People should pay for their mistakes. It is the right thing to do and it is good for society. And I now realize, people taking advantage of your mistake, only teaches you responsibility. When I accidentally spill something on my floor, I should clean it up. Not just say sorry and walk away. If people were counting on me for something, I should deliver because I gave them my word even if I was drunk at the time or whatever. Nobody forced the beer into my mouth. Nobody forced BB to hire the moron who made Metro Last Light only 1 cent per copy.

So ToS doesn't have any meaning?


EDIT : Asking, not jerking.

Well depends how they are recognized in your country but they shouldn't mean anything. Corporations shouldn't have the right to not be responsible for anything. They shouldn't have the power to just make up their own rules.

Why should one feel bitter and hostile if he or she is the one who made the mistake? It's not like he or she didn't do anything wrong. He or she did something really stupid. And yeah, a lot of people hate big business for taking advantage of people but they take advantage of people who didn't do anything wrong. They simply take advantage of a customer for being a customer. If I had my own online store, I'd triple check everything before putting stuff up for sale because I don't want to lose money by keeping my word. And I don't want to worm my way out of deals, generating a lot of justified hate towards me on top of ruining my reputation. I also don't want to look in the mirror and see, a person who breaks his word kind of like the boy who cried wolf. Remember that story? A boy who constantly lies to the other villagers about wolves attacking until people don't take him seriously anymore? Well backing out of deals is almost like lying. I don't want to be an adult who views personal responsibility the same way a 5 year old does.