Originally Posted by Daedalus
Yes, it's a very fine line.
Last year there was a mistake made on Best Buy or Circuit City (one of those similar stores..). Anyway, you could purchase a digital camera online for $500 and when you added it to your Shopping Cart you got a 100% discount for it, meaning you only had to pay for S&H.
Was it legal? Yes. It was purely an 'offer and acceptance of a legal transaction'
Was it ethically right? Probably not, since it was not the intention of the seller.
PS The company in question received hundreds of said orders and cancelled them all once it realized the mistake - they did not honor any of them...
They did this with a rather powerful webmail "computer". You could do an easy modification to make it a fully functional computer. After realizing this, they altered the terms of use. Didn't really matter to those of us who already purchased the hackable boxes, even knowing that we were not going to use them for their intended purpose.
