Get over it lads (and ladies) maybe, just maybe the first bright spark who spotted their mistake managed to order one and have it shipped before they noticed and got a frame for a penny if, and only if, no human element in the process cast an eye on the order and exclaimed “hang on a minute….” and that’s a very long shot.
As for the rest of us who jumped on the bandwagon today for a laugh, do you really think the Bosses of Halfords thought “oh dear, we’ve sold £75k worth of stuff for £1.50, ah well, the boys have loaded the vans now, and it’s Friday, we’ll laugh about this next year”. No, not going to happen, even if the frame were already in the courier’s van and it’s parked at the end of your drive, some frantic phone calls would have it snatched back pronto.
These things happen, human error, system error whatever, they don’t have to sell them to you for 1p, and Trading Standards aren’t going to come charging over the hill to force them to either. It’s lot like they advertised them for half-price and then said “sorry, we’re out of stock, but you can have it in a different colour for 10% off RRP” no bait and switch here.
It was a laugh for a bit, but we’re not going to be getting the frames, more than likely some poor dickhead in Halfords is going to spend the weekend sifting though all the orders and sending out sorry emails and arranging refunds.
Do you work for Halfords?
I think we have all got over it, if something is too good to be true then it usually is, you seem to be the only one getting your knickers in a bunch over it.
It was mostly a bit of fun anyway, but these “mistakes” that Halfords allegedly make seem to be quite frequent, especially on bike stuff, so I’m sure it’s to lure people to their site on the offer of fantastic bargains. We all went their today and it made it to social media, a forum and the bike biz website……free advertising under the guise of “oopsy”
