Re: "Official GNOME 2 Developers Guide" (for newbies like me)

[Billy O'Connor <billyoc gnuyork org>]

IanBell <ian@redtommo.com> writes:

> On Friday 30 Jan 2004 1:32 pm, Calum Benson wrote:
>> On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 15:14, Simon Maynard wrote:
>> > Cheers for that Ian. Went straight to amazon.co.uk and ordered it for
>> > less than a tenner. Now listed as £25, so u they obviously cocked up
>> > somewhere!
>>
>> Heh... I ordered it from Amazon for a tenner as well, wonder if they'll
>> honour it...
>>
>> Cheeri,
>> Calum.
>
> Well strcictly speaking it is a contract to supply at a given price.  I guess 
> you/we would need to read their detailed terms and conditions to see if, for 
> example, they could cancel it which would mean we would have to re-order at 
> the new price. OTOH they are such a big, automated organisation then  it may 
> well slip theough.  The other thing is they seem to have spotted the error 
> and changed the price now but they have not informed you or I of any change 
> so we could argue they had agreed to the original price.
>
> Fingers crossed eh?
>

I doubt they'd spot it, they sell an awful lot of books.  If it was a
mistake concerning, say, a Danielle Steele romance novel though...

:)