Great bargains on NICOT and NICNT commentaries

2008 November 5
by Tim Chester

Amazon appear to be having a sale on the generally excellent NICOT and NICNT commentary series. Some are at silly prices. For example V. P. Hamilton’s commentaries on Genesis are £1.99 each for 540 and 733 pages!

UPDATE: It seems Amazon got their pricing wrong and are now cancelling orders.

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20 Responses
  1. 2008 November 5
    John Percival permalink

    That’s pretty good value!! I think they might be updating the NICOT/NT series soon, so perhaps that’s why?

    http://www.bestcommentaries.com/series/new-international-commentary-on-the-new-testament-nicnt/
    http://www.bestcommentaries.com/series/new-international-commentary-on-the-old-testament-nicot/

  2. 2008 November 5
    Mark Loughridge permalink

    Nice one – thanks for the heads up – just spent £42 and got ten of them!

  3. 2008 November 6
    Mark Heath permalink

    WOW! I’ve ordered 10 volumes.

  4. 2008 November 6
    Joe Lee permalink

    This is awesome. Even with shipping to US, it’s more inexpensive than any other place here in the States. Thanks!

  5. 2008 November 6
    Rob Betts permalink

    Many thanks for posting this – have ordered 8 volumes and saved a huge amount!

  6. 2008 November 6
    Mark Loughridge permalink

    Seem to be all gone now

  7. 2008 November 6
    Jonathan Skipper permalink

    Missed it. Gutted!!!

  8. 2008 November 7
    rowan paterson permalink

    got 11 ordered to aus saved hundreds… awesome!

    rowan

  9. 2008 November 7
    Jason Reid permalink

    Thank you, I ordered 10 or so for under £50. Actually, a number were on my Christmas list so I might get a couple of Apollos commentaries now :)

    Jason

  10. 2008 November 7
    Dave Gobbett permalink

    Amazon has just woken us all up from the dream … They’re now saying the prices were a mistake :-(

  11. 2008 November 7
    dan steel permalink

    beat me to it Dave!

  12. 2008 November 7
    Ian Goodson permalink

    unhappy. trying to remember that God is sovereign.

  13. 2008 November 7
    rowan paterson permalink

    boo hoo!

  14. 2008 November 7
    Stephen Dunning permalink

    I suggest people in the UK alert their local trading standards office to this. When a shop misprices something, they are obliged to keep to that price. I suspect Amazon may be in breach of trading regulations.

  15. 2008 November 7
    Mark Loughridge permalink

    From trading standards website:

    http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/cgi-bin/calitem.cgi?file=ADV1011-1111.txt

    The buyer cannot insist that a trader sells anything at the marked price, whether or not the trader has made a mistake. The law does not allow prices to be fixed and, contrary to common belief, goods are not subject to price controls.

  16. 2008 November 7
    Jason Reid permalink

    As they accepted the order, I will write to them or breach of contract, I’ll let you know what happens. Might be worth a voucher.

    Ciao in grace

  17. 2008 November 7
    John Percival permalink

    Jason, take a look at this BBC article from a few years ago:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2864461.stm
    Amazon hadn’t made a contract with you, and weren’t going to until they dispatched the books. It’s in the small print in the order confirmation email.
    John

  18. 2008 November 7
    Daniel Roe permalink

    Mark, note that just below that there is this:

    “If a consumer orders goods, the trader accepts the order and the price is agreed, but later the trader says the price has gone up, the consumer should only have to pay the price given at the time the order was placed or, alternatively, the consumer could cancel the order.”

    That is, you can’t insist that anyone sell to you at the price marked. But once they sell it to you, they can’t increase the price. Cancelling the order is only open to the consumer. I think Amazon is in violation of this.

    The only question in my mind is whether, because they hadn’t charged my credit card, the order hasn’t actually been placed.

  19. 2008 November 7
    Stephen Dunning permalink

    Following from Daniel’s comment, it is my belief that once they send you the confirmation email, a contract has been established that they must honour. However, their email says “your order and your contract to purchase these items is not complete until we send you an e-mail notifying you that the items have been dispatched to you”.

  20. 2008 November 7
    opentoesandals permalink

    It appears that this sort of thing has happened before with Amazon in 2003 when they offered PDAs for £7.
    See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/03/19/no_legal_recourse_for_buyers/

    Because no exchange (of money or goods) had taken place, Amazon stated the contract hadn’t come into force and therefore they had not breached the contract, meaning it’s perfectly legal for them to cancel the order.

    I’m hoping I’m wrong though :/

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