Circuit City Sunday Ad Error on Madden and NCAA 08?

[Racer]

Circuit City is advertising Madden 2008 and NCAA Football 2008 for Xbox 360 and PS3 for $22.49 this week which they say is 25% off the regular price. On the next page they are also advertising Madden 2008 for Xbox 360 and PS3 for $60. I'm certain those games for $22.49 is a printing error and they actually intended it to be for the Xbox and PS2 versions of those games. My question is this, do they have to honor their own ad?

[Logan]

No. Bring in the ad, some might honor it, some won't. It'll depend on luck and the manager in the store.

[saldana]

if they have a correction up about the add on the shelf where you pick up the games they do not...if there is no correction up, they have to honor the ad for 1 copy of the game.

[Shkspr]

No, they actually don't. It's pretty easy to demonstrate that the ad had a typo; consumers are not entitled to benefit from typos. Only in cases where the ad was intentionally misleading can fraud come into play. If there is no correction posted, the manager may get chewed out by his DL, but it isn't as though the FTC is going to force restitution or anything.

As an aside, the more you go in and tell the managers what they HAVE to honor, the more you will deservedly get told to fuck yourself up the ass.

[Raiders Army]

No, they actually don't. It's pretty easy to demonstrate that the ad had a typo; consumers are not entitled to benefit from typos. Only in cases where the ad was intentionally misleading can fraud come into play. If there is no correction posted, the manager may get chewed out by his DL, but it isn't as though the FTC is going to force restitution or anything.

As an aside, the more you go in and tell the managers what they HAVE to honor, the more you will deservedly get told to fuck yourself up the ass.

Agree.

[Racer]

No, they actually don't. It's pretty easy to demonstrate that the ad had a typo; consumers are not entitled to benefit from typos. Only in cases where the ad was intentionally misleading can fraud come into play. If there is no correction posted, the manager may get chewed out by his DL, but it isn't as though the FTC is going to force restitution or anything.

As an aside, the more you go in and tell the managers what they HAVE to honor, the more you will deservedly get told to fuck yourself up the ass.

Chill out. I don't think anyone in this thread was acting like that. I myself was more curious from a business standpoint then a trying to get a deal because of a typo standpoint.

[DanGarion]

Why would they be advertising games that are months old at the regular price of 6 bucks?

[saldana]

No, they actually don't. It's pretty easy to demonstrate that the ad had a typo; consumers are not entitled to benefit from typos. Only in cases where the ad was intentionally misleading can fraud come into play. If there is no correction posted, the manager may get chewed out by his DL, but it isn't as though the FTC is going to force restitution or anything.

As an aside, the more you go in and tell the managers what they HAVE to honor, the more you will deservedly get told to fuck yourself up the ass.

thats pretty amusing that you edited your entire post in order to act like a pompous douche bag...you said the same thing before you edited it, and managed to not be an asshat...i wonder why you felt the compulsion to do that.

[Groundhog]

No, they actually don't. It's pretty easy to demonstrate that the ad had a typo; consumers are not entitled to benefit from typos. Only in cases where the ad was intentionally misleading can fraud come into play. If there is no correction posted, the manager may get chewed out by his DL, but it isn't as though the FTC is going to force restitution or anything.

As an aside, the more you go in and tell the managers what they HAVE to honor, the more you will deservedly get told to fuck yourself up the ass.

Your's sincerely,
Shkspr
Marketing Manager for Circuit City


Fixed.