Golf fan angry after bookies refuse to pay out £1,250 Bubba Watson bet

“Mr Beardmore put the bet on in good faith come on Corels pay the guy up after all if Bubba Watson did not win the masters last week Corals would still keep Mr Beardmore money”

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SPOT ON, also all bookmakers state "Bets are settled at the correct odds at the time the bet was placed"

Zoiders is just looking for a bit of attention, must be lonely.....”

“Going off subject a little, no one in law as any right to buy anything. People have a right to refuse a sale, like Tesco and the iPad, that's all they did, refused to sell, unless the price they set was paid. So all you bar stool lawyers can lick um'. I'd have said thanks a lot and ripped the sixty odd quid out of there hands. Some of you lot just talk sooooo much s**t it's unreal.”

“Zoiders, Tesco Direct who offered the I Pad at the wrong price covered them selves in the conditions attached for using the site.

12.3 If, by mistake, we have under priced a product, we will not be liable to supply that product to you at the stated price, provided that we notify you before we despatch the product to you. In those circumstances, we will notify the correct price to you so you can decide whether or not you wish to order the product at that price. If you decide not to order the product, we will give you a full refund on any amount already paid for that product in accordance with our refund policy in paragraph17.”

“If a shop accidentally prices an item you DO NOT have the right to buy it at the price indicated. It can be withdrawn from sale. Check it out at the link.

http://tinyurl.com/d6favno”

“I've got a question for Lee, what's your tip for the Grand National?”

“And just for those of you trying to prove a technicality - trading standards is about exactly what it says on the tin, to protect standards of trading, if a retailer flaunts a product in the national press or in a widely seen media such as televison or the internet then trading standards will rule in favour of the customer. Small mistakes are forgiven, large mistakes will be punished as it keep retailers in line and stops them cutting corners with lazy advertising standards.

Tesco - multi national company, there is no excuse for banging put the latest high ticket item with the wrong price on it.

Pay up scum bags.”

“Tesco are bound by the "Sale Of Goods Act". They had the iPad advertised nation wide and in the public domain on a huge scale as being onsale at £49.95 for a prolonged period of time, not for minutes or a few hours but for more than a trading day so a mistake is not an excuse. Marks and Spencer had to cave in on the televison sales because they knew they were bound by the sale of goods act. All retailers are bound as such. Sorry but Tesco are obliged to sell the iPad at such a price as advertised as long as the order was placed at the time of advertisement. Weasel words like "terms and conditions" do not over ride trading law or traders could make up any excuse they like for poor standards of point of sale advertising. This is why trading standards fine major retailers for incorrect pricing and make them sell the goods at such a price if it is more than just an incident of minor mispricing at branch level.The chap with the betting slip has a receipt, a written agreement that was not noticed by the betting shop as being incorrect during the course of trading so it is not covered by any terms or conditions, terms and conditions and "palpable mistakes" are designed to protect those that run on the day track side betting at race courses from fraud, they are not meant to protect an urban book makers office from entering into bets offering incorrect odds that they then decide to renage upon during the next trading day when they see the betting slip and realise that they may have offered incorrect odds.

They owe the chap a grand, they need to pay up.”

“Everyone's a betting expert. I find it rather sad in fact, the first thing I would do if I was PM, lower VAT to 12.5% and remove it from all food, offsetting with reintroduction of a betting tax on stake of 10%.”

“worldisflat - what you are talking about is in legal terms called "invitation to treat" however, once the contract has been entered into that argument is no longer valid, as in this case, because the money has been handed over so a valid contract has taken place. Not critisising just clearing up a point.”