FREE tyres at Halfords

[skodanorman]

Someone alerted me to this just now...

 

 

Seemingly, a technical glitch on Halfords part. Here is the link, http://www.halfordsautocentres.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_11602_catalogId_19253_productId_968475_langId_-1

 

I have ordered some, though I very much doubt Halfords will actually supply them to me for free. No harm in trying though, right?

[Day-VRS]

Haha, same here, highly doubt they'll honour it.

Day

[billy2981]

Got my confirmation email lol

Perfect for tge wifes hyundai lol. Gonna be dropping the spare wheels round with them lol.

We shall see

[wheatobear]

Let's see what they say when I turn up on Friday and ask for my 4 free tyres! I got my booking reference too surely if they refuse u can get em done for false advertising

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[billy2981]

Least your doing lile I did n only ordering a set.

Its on FB vag talk and muppets on there are ordering 8 and one ordered 6 twice!

What is it with pricks like that? why take the **** when it would be nice just to get a pair for nothing.

[giandougl]

Good luck with your venture.

But do tell us the final outcome please.

[@Lee]

Dammit! I need 205/45's

[gfwc]

i need 45's too but ordered anyway and booked in for wednesday! lets see what they say when I turn up

[Oli3000]

I'll order some, but unfortunately there is nothing legally that says they have to honour the order.

No company has to sell you anything, even if mis-priced on the high street they can still refuse the sale, and protection is even greater with websites as they can actually correct the price and charge you after delivery for their mistake.

False advertising is when you are deliberately mislead (I.e "Sir this is only £10", then they charge £100) so the only way to get away with it is if the company decides to honour it out of goodwill!

Also as no money is taken I very much doubt they'll honour it...

Edited 22 July, 2013 by Oli3000

[@Lee]

+1, there was a big brouhaha a while back IIRC with Tesco or Argos where web prices were wrong. They weren't legally obliged to honor the web price.

[Wet Kipper]

especially if it's an obvious error.

something that should be £350 for £300, you have a good chance they'll play ball, but the same thing advertised for £3.50 is an obvious error and they are entitled not to honour it

[Aspman]

Yup, shops have the right not to sell.

 

You'll probably get an email telling you this, they might offer a discount to keep your business.

 

It'd have to be a bloody big one before I'd let Halfords near my wheels.

[skodanorman]

Must admit, I don't think I'll get the tyres... but if I do!

[Ootohere]

Free Air Guitars at Argos today.

(T&C's apply, & No Strings.)

 

george

[Dean-]

Ha...

 

I think they may be in the process of correcting it. They can no longer be added to basket.

[Raf_]

I'm expecting an email cancelling my order for 4 tyres, tho it would be awesome if they honerd it lol

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[billy2981]

Canceled lol

Oh well

[Raf_]

Same here, was worth a try tho lol

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[skodanorman]

Yeah, but God does love a trier so I am told! 

[Ootohere]

I missed out on the Air Guitars as they have all gone.

 

Now that i know about 'Pear Air MP3 players', the ICE upgrade will be very easy in any vehicle i have now.

http://www.air-guitars.net/other/other_04.html

[cheezemonkhai]

Let's see what they say when I turn up on Friday and ask for my 4 free tyres! I got my booking reference too surely if they refuse u can get em done for false advertising

Sent from my iPhone on the toilet!

 

 

Nope E&OE will be on the contract.

That plus it's very obvious it's a mistake.

[vrs oh yes]

Just got mine fitted and put the 4 extras in the boot. Thank you very much Halfords IT team!! Cheers for the heads up skodanorman

Jokes, they cancelled mine too..

[niceyellow vrs]

Had a similar situation when I bought some sofas from homebase last year. They were advertising a nice leather corner sofa on their website for £250. Thought it was too good to be true so took a trip down to my local store to make enquiries. Nice lady checked on the computer and it was showing the price to be £250. It was also a 15% off everything weekend and she recommended that if we wanted it we should buy it there and then as it would probably be popular. So we did, along with a matching 3 seater. 2 brand new leather sofas for £360 delivered, result

 

Couple of days later, my bird gets a call from homebase to say that it was a misprice and the order was to be cancelled due to the online terms and conditions stating that the point of contract is upon dispatch. All well and good and indeed correct if we had bought online. Bad news for them was I had paid cash instore and my money was in their till. That, by consumer law, was the point of contract so we got our sofas for the price we paid. Yay.

 

Any price displayed is what is known as an "Invitation to treat" which means the shop is suggesting that they want so much for the product. As a consumer you can, by law, accept and pay the displayed price or you could make them an offer. It is then up to the shop whether they want to accept your offer or not. Once they accept your money into the till a contract has been entered between the shop and the customer.

 

It is a common misconception that a shop has to sell you a product at the price displayed. It's just generally best practice to honour small mistakes as it keeps the customers happy but equally if it is a blatently massive mistake it's better for them to say sorry but it's actually this price.

[LGM]

Just out of curiosity, what did the email say?

[billy2981]

Dear Customer,

 

Booking  cancellation – Bridgestone tyres with £0.00 order value

 

We would like to apologise for the error on our website over this weekend and earlytoday which incorrectly showed the price of some Bridgestone Turanza ER300 tyres as £0.00. This was a genuine website error and unfortunately we cannot honour any bookings made for these tyres. Due to the number of bookings we have received, it may not be possible for your centre to contact you personally to cancel your booking, so please accept this email as cancellation of your booking.

 

We do not sell tyres at £0.00 value at any time and Bridgestone tyres advise us that the ER300 pattern tyre was superseded some time ago and therefore these aren’t a pattern available in current range.

 

Please accept our sincere apologies for this error, however if you should wish to book an alternative tyre type we would be pleased to receive your order and please visitwww.halfordsautocentres.com/tyres.