[Closed] Gore coundown jacket for peanuts

erm..I think I just ordered one, but it didn't ask for any money??

I did the same. Wonder what will happen ?

ive ordered one as well!

I'd love to be proven wrong but I would imagine that you'll get an email explaining that there was a mistake and that your order will be cancelled. That's usually what happens when these to-good-to-be-true offers appear on the internet.

could just be harvesting e-mail addresses?

You are probably right mathew, but my sister once ordered som gucci shoes for £0 and they turned up, so who knows

Oh, don't get me wrong, I've ordered one in case 🙂

Well it would be rude not to!

it will never work!

yep , thats too good to be true . But I ordered one anyway 🙂 LOL

From their T&C's:

[i]When confirmation of order is received, this is to indicate that we have received your order. It does not indicate that a contract exists between us. We will indicate acceptance of your order, and hence a contract between us, when we send you an invoice. [b]We have included this term to protect us in the case that a mistake has been made in pricing[/b], we have inadvertently under-priced goods, or we are no longer able to supply a particular product for some reason. In the case of a change of price, we will always contact you first to ensure that the price is acceptable.[/i]

Anyone got a discount code? 😉

I ordered one too.

In 2005 I saw a brand new top of the range Spesh FSR120 for £1800 from a shop down south, on line. I pounced on it, they tried to give me the flick saying my cards were invalid etc etc but I made them let me do a bank transfer instead. I got the bike - £800 off or something like that.

As I understand it it's something to do with the Goods For Sale Act (?) the advertised price is the price, no arguments.

But since they haven't actaully charged your card with the price shown then so far they haven't sold anything. I'm in anyway, just for the kicks.

does seem liek all everyone's doing is creating grief for whoever has to send out all the emails saying 'sorry we made a mistake your card hasn't been charged'?

"Dear Mr S Parkinson,

Thank you for shopping at The Bike Chain.
We have received and are processing the following order:
"

i actualy feel quite bad, STW may just have bancrupted a shop :-S

if it arrives ill send them £30 (the price i'd actualy pay for a jacket)

random economics point-

its not actualy free, even though you havent paid for it there is still an oppertunity cost.

that being that if you own the jacket you could sell it on ebay, for say £xyz. So by not selling it you are still costing yourself money by owning and using the jacket.

How much would they normally cost?

Got to be worth a try hasn't it. They don't ask for any card details or anything 🙂

"reasone for buying from us"....erm.... 😈

random economics point-

its not actualy free, even though you havent paid for it there is still an oppertunity cost.

that being that if you own the jacket you could sell it on ebay, for say £xyz. So by not selling it you are still costing yourself money by owning and using the jacket.

ah. economics. a customer once informed me that a flat panel monitor was better, despite being unable to properly display the image required to drive our equipment, because it reduced their maintenance costs. this was based on the amount of desk space it took up, because their maintenance costs were determined by the square foot.
obviously i pointed out this madness. they should have been dealing in SI units. marconi BTW. can't imagine why they went to the wall.

Cant complete checkout

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The requested URL /acatalog/Gore_Countdown_III_Jkt_Blk_Mens_Mid_ _Outer_Layer.html was not found on this server.

We have been rumbled I think

If that fails, Dales have a half price sale on Gore stuff

http://www.dalescycles.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=HALF+PRICE&SearcH.x=15&SearcH.y=10

Just tried and it let me go through the whol eprocess, just had the email confirmation of my order, we'll see.

me too

Me three. 🙂

me four

you lot are well special - it says on the front page

[i]At the moment we are still trying to fix some small issues with the website - [b]this means that currently we cannot sell you any nice things[/b] until we have it sorted.[/i]

I'm now feeling bad. I put the order in but upon reflection this is rather shabby of me to try to get owt for nowt regardless of legal rights or whatever. It will get bounced no doubt and I won't challenge....

Guys,

This is a small business in Edinburgh who have just started online. The have obviously made a mistake. I've let them know about this mis-price so please forget trying to order it as it won't work.

I think the mods should delete this thread.

I think so too

whats better is rocketdog knows the manager and is possibly just trying to ruin his day. what a nice thing to do

tbc can consider it a nice free destruction testing of their new system.

So you all winge and moan about people not paying for a TV license, but its perfectly ok to try and get free products from a small business because of an error on their website!

Double standards...

I love the guilt trip thang 🙂

At the end of the day, no one is really going to chase this up (are they???). Any one "of sound mind" would realise this is a cock up

Plus, it's bloomin' good advertising for a new online bike store trying to get started 🙂

Maybe it was just a publicity stunt. We feel bad so buy from their website to ease the guilt.

I didn't whinge about not paying a tv license btw.

Hi all,

Thanks for your interest in our website.

Alas as it states on the front page we are unable to sell anything through our website due to a technical problem.

Any payments that are attempted fail and we cannot therefore process orders.

The problem has been with us for some time and we have been working hard to fix it but there are forces at work beyond our control and we are subject to protracted time scales.

I will try and spend some time today to go through each of the emails we have received and apologise accordingly.

Thanks.

Please keep checking our site though for news and stuff of interest <<<shameless plug!

Mark
0131 557 2801

you do realise that someone will have to contact all the ****s who bought jackets and explain the situation? i really don't get you lot sometimes, its all a laugh for you but your just dicking around with peoples jobs

So can we all get a discount on our 1st order then 😉

Oh and its not a publicity stunt... the site has been like this for a while now.

We are an LBS with (hopefully!) a web presence but we intend to be a good LBS first and foremost and a web shop for those who can't visit us.

Mark

relax nina, how longs does it take to send the same e-mail to a bunch of people, seconds maybe. And look at the free advertising thats created. I'm sure bikechain won't be complaining. Its the kind of stunt Brant would be proud of.

Where's my free jacket??? 😡 😡 😡

not really nina, I just "ordered" one as I'm sure they will now have an idea that a proportion of the people who have "ordered" have basically expressed an interest in buying a new jacket, now all they need to do is have a friendly chat with their Gore rep and see if they could get a special price and offer it to all who've expressed an interest?

Gary_M - to prevent spamming and mis use of email addresses we embed the email address of the orderer in the text of the order.

The emails come from shop@thebikechain.co.uk to shop@theb....

This means we cannot send a blanket email and hence I ill go through them all to create individual responses.

As i say - it means we cannot be victim of address book wormy thingys.

i love this - you send money when singletrack gets hacked but try and screw over small indy bike shops. ace

Yet another 'high horse' style poster.

aye - its nice up here

It must be cold up there atop your horse on the moral high ground.

whats better is rocketdog knows the manager and is possibly just trying to ruin his day. what a nice thing to do

no i don't/didn't until i read Marks reply, when did he move from pure racing to being an owner of a bike shop?, i obviously didn't get that email!

and btw i didn't order owt, i'f i'd have know it was mark i'd have tried to contact him somehow (obvously i can't through mlehworld. com anymore)

quite pleasent actually

I let my greed carry me away, ordered one, then had an attack of guilt and have e-mailed to cancel it and appologise... I feel better now.

All those morals and poor spelling will only lead to trouble.

If you were greedy you would have ordered more than one, opportunistic maybe.

One spelling mistake, thats rather good for me.... Dyslexia rules KO

I wasn't referring to you tinsy, I was referring to the chap on the tall horse.

i take offence at being compared to the tax dodging, eyeball rodgering GNARGNAR

anyway, where is the similarity between dodgeing the TV licience (don't do), paying singletrack (didnt do, and if i was paying id expect soemthing back, like less techno techno techno adverts), and seeing if its possible to get a freeebie?

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him?

I don't expect a Gore jacket for nowt, I would like to hear if they have a STW Special" on though!

I am guessing you don't work in retail MrNutt? Or perhaps even in the real world?

*waits for apology* (or however you spell it)

Gary_M - Member

All those morals and poor spelling will only lead to trouble.

And as usual, when your internet argument starts to fail the argument turns to spelling... [img] [/img]

wow, this is another top STW thread.

cynic-al, I'm convinced that live in the a world full of idiocy, I'm quite sure that its real but I can never be too sure...

I do understand that if you have an opportunity its best to capitalize on it,

for example, if a number of people expressed an interest in ordering a Gore bike jacket, albeit mispriced, they are still interested in the product and it would be safe to consider them a "Target Market".

Building up a loyal customer base and generating word-of-mouth promotion is key to any successful business.

If theBikechain we're to email all the people who had tried to "order" a Gore jacket offering ether a discounted product or perhaps even better a Discount Voucher worth the RRP value of the Gore jacket?

Now stick with me on this the voucher could then be used to obtain say a maximum of up to 15% off per purchase until that RRP/Discount figure had been reached, make it valid for three months and you'd have a few folk who would probably consider spending at thebikechain rather than elsewhere and also they would tell their friends where they got it from, and so it goes?

Effectively a free jacket, as an apology for...nothing?

Upon reflection I'm ashamed I ordered one, and have also sent an email apologising. It's a personal thing, and I feel better for it. I've done lots of bad things in my life, as I've got older I've realised that getting a result through badness doesn't make me feel good even if I get what I was after.

If you feel different, that's your choice, go for it, but this will take up someone's time/money on the back of a mistake. Shame on ya x10!!! 😛

[rides off on moderately high horse to play harp in a band with other angels. Horse would be higher only I tried it on in the first place...]

If you want to fret about morals, perhaps pay a bit more attention to where the clothes you buy are made or how the money in your bank account is used by that bank, rather than policing the buying practices of others on here. There is no harm done and to suggest that anyone here would like there to be is highly insulting, effectively removing you from the moral high ground you so quickly claimed as your own. You know who you are! 🙂

as i'm no longer going to get a free jacket, i will now go off and drown some kittens in a freezing river, take out a credit card, and to top it all, not addopt an african child.

(n.b. im not doing this in protest, im doing it because i want to keep the STW stabels in business during these hard times for the high horse business, which is more niche than Ti 27.5er twin speed unicycling dont cha know.)

I'm burning a scarecrow dressed from head to toe in Howies gear as pennance.

[i]There is no harm done[/i]

just lots of extra work, sure they had nothing better to do. if it were me i'd hike the price and put through all your card details 😀

i'd just have a poo

Good shop The Bike Chain.

nina - and then spend the day processing order cancellations?

There is no harm done

just lots of extra work, sure they had nothing better to do. if it were me i'd hike the price and put through all your card details

Luckily, for the moral majority, you are not in charge at The Bike Chain! 😀

[i]just lots of extra work, sure they had nothing better to do. if it were me i'd hike the price and put through all your card details[/i]

What card details. Anyway 'copy > paste' - how hard can that be.

It's extra work for me cause I'll have to e-mail them next week when my jacket hasn't arrived. Then never happens with wiggle when I pay for stuff.

some people just get a kick out of spoiling good honest fun, good whilst it lasted 🙂

jesus knows you've done wrong and he's coming to get you
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cynic-al it's not a free jacket it would be encouraging spend which would normally be spent else where, also NO CARD DETAILS were taken! just personal details, address & email.

what's more just how long would it really take to sort the non-orders out? anyone with even a half baked system isn't going to have to spend more than a minute per entry surely! I doubt they have received anymore than 60 orders unless its been posted on something like hotdeals?

and what's more, its still live!! if they don't want to sit there canceling orders perhaps they should pull the item!

I doubt anyone in there right mind could reasonably expect to get a free jacket by clicking on a website, I filled it in but only out of curiosity! 🙂

seriously, no one [i]really[/i] thought they were actually going to get one did they.

you don't have to sell at the advertised price, it's an offer to trade not a contract of sale

i think thebikechain may have got onto something good here, you say your a new shop right? so how about setting up a relationship with singletrack, like all subscribed members get 10% off and free p&p. you can then montor the website and when some one has a need or a problem you can offer you assistance and help. we are nice people deep down 🙂

Oh well placed an order just to see what happens.

This is almost as good as the deal I got on my Laptop, a major league error by PC world.

I got a £329 laptop for £99 after looking on their website and noticing a reserve and collect offer at the top of the page, several of us bought one that day 😆

Their online T&C's said act that as soon as you recieve the conformation email that acts as proof of purchase, he hee, the manager wasn't overly impressed