Re: Is a Receipt a Contract
without reading anything in your post but only addressing the question in the title:
no, a receipt is not a contract. A receipt is a receipt.
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This weekend the school bookstore was offering 40% everything online.
what was the specific verbiage used in the ad?
Re: Is a Receipt a Contract
Thanks for your reply. This is what was on the website.
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k6.../vandal400.jpg
Re: Is a Receipt a Contract
Let me ask this:
were you charged sales tax on the cards?
If not, it was not a purchase and not covered under the sale as posted.
Generally a gift card does not constitute a purchase. There should be no sales tax because there is no actual sale. If they did charge sales tax, I would argue that they did consider a gift card a purchase of merchandise. If they did not charge sales tax, I have no argument for you.
Re: Is a Receipt a Contract
There was no sales tax for the gift cards.
They do not constitute purchase even though I already paid for them and the transaction has been posted? You'd think that after you paid for something it would establish a contract or something similar where you upheld your side by making payment and the retailer or service provider needs to uphold to their side by providing the merchandise or service.
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Merchandise - Product Detail
VandalStore Gift Card
VandalStore Gift Cards are available in increments between $10 and $100, redeemable online or at any of five VandalStore locations: VandalStore Moscow (including Starbucks), VandalStore Boise, The Commons Bookstore, The VandalExpress, or The VandalUnderground.
Gift Card purchases are not included in special sale offers.
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I did run thru a gift card purchase with discount but before actual payment, and they did discount it, but that is probably just something the website coders need to fix.
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Merchandise - Product Detail
VandalStore Gift Card
VandalStore Gift Cards are available in increments between $10 and $100, redeemable online or at any of five VandalStore locations: VandalStore Moscow (including Starbucks), VandalStore Boise, The Commons Bookstore, The VandalExpress, or The VandalUnderground.
Gift Card purchases are not included in special sale offers.
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I did run thru a gift card purchase with discount but before actual payment, and they did discount it, but that is probably just something the website coders need to fix.
well, there's the answer since you didn't like mine.
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They do not constitute purchase even though I already paid for them and the transaction has been posted?
they are not technically a purchase even if the transaction was completed. They are not selling the "card" so you did not buy anything. You gave them money to hold and apply to your purchases as you make them.
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You'd think that after you paid for something it would establish a contract or something similar where you upheld your side by making payment and the retailer or service provider needs to uphold to their side by providing the merchandise or service.
so, just what merchandise or service have you purchased? You posting that should have clicked and you should have realized you answered your own question with that statement.
Re: Is a Receipt a Contract
I do understand that this was an coding error and that is something that I've realized from the very start. I am trying to use their error for my own benefit towards expensive textbooks next semester.
So, there is nothing LEGALLY that the bookstore is obligated to do holding to the order. I guess what It comes down to is me just trying to talk them into giving me the gift cards at the price I paid?
Thanks!
Re: Is a Receipt a Contract
http://www.vandalstore.com/Privacy.aspx
If your read the web site terms, you agreed not to do what you are trying to do. They are not obligated to honor the pricing.