[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.