Game 1 - Guess the date of the next major RNS:-9 Feb 2021 06:52
Good morning all, stay safe and warm out there!
Today's hopefuls are:-
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InnOffTheCush - 09/02/21
Wybster - 09/02/21 - Happy Birthday!
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Good luck everyone! hoping for another blue day here for EUA.
I do find modern e-commerce retail a useless system, you browse the internet and find an item at a good price from a retailer,
The item is shown 'IN STOCK' on their web page,
So you make your purchase,
They take your money,
They send you an email thanking you for your purchase,
Paypal send an email receipt of the transaction,
The company sends an email saying they are processing my order and will inform me once it is dispatched !
Later in the day, they email to say 'sorry' their supplier is 'OUT OF STOCK' of my particular item!
Hang on, your web page stated 'YOU' had the item IN STOCK, that is why I placed my order, NOT that the importer in the UK had one IN stock and you linked YOUR stock holding to indicate / reflect the importer's stockholding!
This company has refunded my money and its web page does now show the item is out of stock and new stock due in 1 week's time!
But rather than ring me up and say sorry there is a delay of 1 week, they just refunded my money and thanked me for my business.
On looking at their web page the item is now available to pre-order for £110 more!
So two things, if a company says they have an item in stock, they may mean the importer / wholesaler has the item in stock, not actually them themselves!
Secondly, I think in this instance they had incorrectly priced the item on their web page by £100 too little, and it was easier for them to just make out that the wholesaler had no current stock, rather than sell the item at a loss to them of £100 cheaper than it should have been priced up at!
If they had the guts to get in contact and explain I would have probably had just paid the extra £100 as it would have saved me the dispatch delay and been in line with another retailer's price anyway!
So, back to scouring the internet for the item, c'est la vie!
Good luck everyone, cheers.