Argos website crashes after Minecraft XBox One drops in price from £300 to £89.99 and thousands of gamers try to snap them up
The store’s site crashed for several hours after marketing agency PTM Media flagged up the price on its Facebook page 'Extreme Deals, Bargains, Discounts'
HUNDREDS of bargain hunters tried to snap up a new Xbox games console for £89.99 after a glitch on Argos’s website.
The pre-order Minecraft Xbox One S 1TB should cost £300.
The store’s site crashed for several hours after marketing agency PTM Media flagged up the price on its Facebook page “Extreme Deals, Bargains, Discounts”.
It understood that several hundred bargain hunters were able to order the console today for the heavily discounted price - before the deluge of traffic caused it to crash.
PTM Media director Daniel Dalley said: "We posted the offer on our Facebook page - which has more than 60,000 followers - and we know that thousands of people clicked on it.
"We estimate around 200 to 300 people may have actually managed to buy one for this price.
"By the time I had got into the office this morning I decided to try to redeem the offer myself, but when I tried to get on the Argos website it was completely offline."
Daniel said these errors are known as "retailer glitches" and are often caused by employees incorrectly entering prices.
He said: "We see this quite often with lots of online retailers.
"Some will honour the deal, others won't. It all depends on each particular websites terms and conditions.
"But some people may have got themselves a bargain this morning."
Argos store confirmed on twitter its website was down due to a pricing glitch.
Yesterday the retailer confirmed all wrongly priced orders will be cancelled and apologised to customers “inconvenienced by the technical error”.
The website's, terms and conditions state under point "4.3 a" what the website does when it comes to pricing errors.
It reads: "If we discover an error in the price of goods ordered or reserved, we will inform you as soon as possible (e.g. prior to the goods being dispatched or in store prior to the collection of good).
"We will provide you with the option of reconfirming your order at the correct price or cancelling it. If we are unable to contact you we will treat the order as cancelled.
"If you choose to cancel and have already paid for the goods, you will receive a full refund."
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