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<\/p>\nShoppers rushed to buy laptop computers worth \u00a3500 for the knockdown price of \u00a340 after an online blunder by John Lewis.<\/p>\n
The mix-up happened after prices and pictures of software equipment appeared alongside descriptions of laptops.<\/p>\n
But bosses have refused to honour the deal instead they have promised to credit their accounts with \u00a325 as a “goodwill gesture”.<\/p>\n
The mix up happened after prices and pictures of software equipment appeared alongside descriptions of laptops and tablets.<\/p>\n
The error followed a similar glitch at Amazon last month when bargain-hunters were able to snap up thousands of items for just 1p each when they were wrongly priced\u2013 but in that case they were allowed to keep them.<\/p>\n
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One angry John Lewis shopper was a 72-year-old woman from Maidstone, Kent, who paid \u00a379.90 for two Hewlett Packard Pavilion laptops.<\/p>\n
She did not want to be named, but said: \u201cAmazon made a similar mistake and honoured the sale. I would have expected a company with the reputation of John Lewis to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the company \u2013 whose famous slogan is Never Knowingly Undersold \u2013 said: \u201cThis was a genuine mistake and we have written to all customers affected and provided a full refund along with a \u00a325 gesture of goodwill for the inconvenience caused.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a letter to customers, John Lewis said: \u201cUnfortunately, there was an error on our website and some of the information displayed led to a misunderstanding of exactly what were offering under the product description.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the main part of the page displayed the software items that you have ordered, there was also some description of a computer\/laptop\/tablet.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, this information was incorrect and, understandably, caused some confusion.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Source: Mirror UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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