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[size=10.5pt]Yeah... well here's another funny story.[/size]
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[size=10.5pt]Several months ago many people on the (full size) Headphone forum purchased a certain headphone at an outrageously low price (about 1/10th regular cost). Before it was confirmed that it was a mistake, some people got upset at the purchasers for taking gross advantage of an 'obvious' error. Some withheld judgment, and others just said... 'who cares'. Once it was revealed to in fact be a mistake, some real fireworks occurred as the ‘you must return them’ side was pitted against the ‘but it was their mistake’ side.[/size]
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[size=10.5pt]It got seriously ugly. Some Head-fi’ers were banned. The thread was edited and locked.[/size]
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[size=10.5pt]Taking advantage of a mistake can get you caught up in a world of self righteous indignation. Both sides might have a valid point, but in the end it’s a matter of conscience. If you feel it was the right thing to do… if you feel justified and have no issue with a local store (and I don’t know the circumstances) losing money on this miss-pricing, then that’s your business. But know that you might have opened yourself to some serious criticism for doing so.[/size]
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[size=10.5pt]Be aware, some don’t find things like this very funny…[/size]
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Hey shane55,
As far as I'm concerned, I'm ok with the situation and haven't got any problems with the store or something else because they realized their mistake. The problem (or not) here is that if a store has priced down articles they have to write this down for example in a flyer, magazine, advertisement or something else. They even have to write down until what time they price down something. It is even worse if they write the clause 'until end of stock'. (an example later on) So if they did the mistake to price down this whisky they simple have to take this mistake because they can't change the price until the time or the stock is over/has expired. So in this case it is ok, I juste bought what I bought and didn't 'steal' them. It could have been another customer who checked the mistake, but it was me, so it doesn't matter how you turn the situation, it would have turned out the same. (except for the ten bottles perhaps, but who knows)
Here the other example. While the release of the PlayStation3 in one of the countries next to me, the PS3 was priced down by 1/3 (it was only the release) and they wrote on their ads until end of stock. Of course they were all sold out the first day and they HAD to sell it for the price they offered it. Now, here is the question: are they now 'stolen' or is it ok ? Of course it was a mistake and even the media told the story, but the price had to remain the same because the law want's it this way.
So with my whisky it is the same story, except for the ten bottles, but honestly, what would you do with 2 or 3 PS3's ? Basically it is the same idea.
I want to make clear that it wasn't my intention to 'steal them', I just benefited from the priced down articles, nothing less, nothing more.
Of course you now can argue about wether it is ok or not. Basically I'm a really honest man, (I even pay the 1 cent overprice for petrol while the cashier always says it is ok) and I don't go against my principles. But even if I wanted to pay the fully 150€, I can't (and believe me it is not my first bottle of Blue Label for the full price). I was just lucky to be the first to discover the priced down whisky.
So in the end, how I said before, it doesn't matter how you turn the situation, it would always come to the same end. They would have been sold for 8,99€. All of them.
Abe
Behind me stood my girlfriend with the rest 9 bottles and she got them also for the same price 
