Comments on: Mass Effect 3, PC – £14.99

By: Gonadius

Gonadius — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:15:54 +0000

In reply to Higgamus. Untill you have the item in your hands, they have precious few obligations to sell it to you at whatever price.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:16:53 +0000

Higgamus, sites get around it by saying no contract is made either until they take payment or they ship the game, one or the other.

Something along the lines of when you make an order you’re making an offer to buy it and until they accept that offer (by taking payment and/or confirming the order) then they can still cancel it.

This is why most sites manage to get out of these pricing mistakes.

By: Higgamus

Higgamus — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:20:08 +0000

I thought there was some legal obligation to honour an advertised price.

Is that just wishful thinking?

By: DaveT

DaveT — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:56:16 +0000

I had this pre-ordered since July last year at the £14.99 price, however, I received this from bee.com

Dear Customer,
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your order for Mass effect 3 pc edition.
Unfortunately there has been a pricing error on the website resulting in the item being advertised at the incorrect price.
It is with regret that we are unable to honour the orders at this price and therefore your order has been now been cancelled.
Please allow up to 24 hours for your order to show as cancelled in your account.
Please be assured that no money has been or will be taken for this order.
Bee.com is always looking into improving our services and we will be working on this issue to prevent it from happening in the future.
If you would still like to purchase the item then it is now uploaded on the website with the correct price.
Sorry for all the inconvenience this may have caused
Kind Regards
Bee.com

So bee.com seem to have no pre-order price guarantee. Annoyung :/

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:54:11 +0000

Just received an email from bee. They’re not going to honour it at this price and they’ve cancelled my order, was to be expected.. worth a punt though.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:11:54 +0000

In reply to Ringwraith. Craaap so upset I missed this :( I've promised myself not to buy this game until it's £15 or lower so to have had it on release for this price would have been quite a treat.

By: Ringwraith

Ringwraith — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:34:57 +0000

That’s the second time they’ve done the exact same misprice, which I also got.
I think I still have my previous £21 copy on order though from them, but I recall having problems cancelling it conventionally…

By: Tony Heugh

Tony Heugh — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:02:44 +0000

Back to £34.99, that was quick!

By: Lewie Procter

Lewie Procter — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:00:59 +0000

In case anyone is unsure, I can vouch for bee.com. I got a 3DS game from them last week, no problems.

By: moonspook

moonspook — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:59:02 +0000

I’ve preordered, but from what I’ve been reading, bee.com aren’t very reliable. Most of their stock is out of stock, you can’t manually search for ME3 on PC, they haven’t updated their twitter or blog since last March.. It’s worth a punt, but if you’re desperate for ME3 on release day, it may be worth spending more from elsewhere.

By: DaveT

DaveT — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:58:26 +0000

Just double checked my order for this from Bee and I’ve had it ordered since July 2011. And if the release date is right, I have just over a month to finish ME2.