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Originally Posted by HarryT
I very much hope not. You shouldn't fire someone for making a genuine mistake.
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Isn't there a rule in America against stuff like this?
In Europe, a store is obliged to sell a product at the given price, if the given price is reasonable. I actually bought a Brother lettering machine for €89. I was wondering why this model was €10 cheaper than the model below it. A few days ago, on the same site, I saw that machine for €149. That made a lot more sense (also, when regarding the prices at other stores at the time).
The store couldn't have refused to sell me that machine at €89, as there were many other lettering machines listed, starting at €29, going up to €169 or so, so €89 would be seen by a court as a "very reasonable price".
A an e-reader with a frontlight and such at €20 through, when there are no other e-readers available at that price point (not even less sophisticated ones) in the Netherlands, would probably have been refused though, and you wouldn't have been able to fight that.
Dell, on the Dutch site, once shot themselves in the foot by offering a laptop with a 1TB SSD instead of a 1TB HDD... (at the time where SSD's were very expensive) and they had to honor it, because €999 would be a very reasonable price for that laptop otherwise.