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Brother HL3040CN Colour LED Network Printer $68.74 @ Officeworks

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Brother HL3040CN Colour LED Network Printer $68.74 @ Officeworks
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Lozguy on 20/01/2012 - 10:37 files.ozbargain.com.au (3316 clicks)
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Edit: deleted superfluous call for good manners :)

Brother HL3040CN A4 (wired) Network Colour Laser Printer
32MB
250 sheet tray
Up to 16 ppm Mono Up to 16 ppm Colour
USB 2.0 & 10/100 BaseTX Ethernet
19 kgs

Consumables:
STARTER Black/Cyan/Magenta/Yellow Toner Cartridges Up to 1,000 pages
Drum (DR-240CL) Up to 15,000 A4 pages
Belt Unit (BU-200CL) Up to 50,000 pages
Waste Toner Box (WT-200CL) 50,000

Full spec's: http://bit.ly/ehQNY5

Advertised in today's Sydney Morning Herald on page 5 (and probably Melbourne's Age), this price is so outrageously low, that it looks like a mistake to me. The fine print (not in the attached scan) says:

"Printed for 20/1/12. Not all services and products featured are available in all stores but may be ordered. Printed by blah blah, OW4851_AGE_SMH

If it's a mistake, I'd figure one could strongly argue a case, especially if you politely wave the newspaper in their face! I'm not tring as I already have two colour lasers (neither working, but one will be fixed shortly).

OW prices for toners are: TN-240BK black $109, Colour toners (C, K or Y) $101 each, or a set of the lot for $359.95. DR-240CL drum $253.

Sure, the consummables will end up costing a packet, but that's the way a lot of these things go. Or if you're fashionably un-green, you can throw it all away after the starter's all gone and it's cost you around 7c/page for printing about two reams of paper.

Note: At the time of writing, this purchase price is not reflected on OW's website (it says $149). But I've seen such anomalies plenty of times at HN, so who knows.

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  • Nutrino on 20/01/2012 - 19:12
    -1

    Ok, so office can reneg on this price which is clearly and error…

    Instore… if the price is wrong, (scans at higher then the price at checkout) on the label, and the label identifies the correct item… can they reneg too?

    whats the law…?

    • daydream on 20/01/2012 - 22:58

      "If mistakes in catalogues or advertisements have occurred, they can be fixed by publishing a retraction in a publication with a similar circulation to the original advertisement." http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/869875

      For theory sake only: http://www.wilmerhale.com/are_sellers_bound_by_mistakes_in_o…

      • StewBalls on 20/01/2012 - 23:46

        Wouldn't this apply:

        "Multiple pricing occurs when a trader displays more than one price for the same item or service. If this happens, they must sell it to you for the lowest displayed price or withdraw the item until the price is corrected."

        …or is that only in-store pricing?

        • daydream on 21/01/2012 - 01:34

          I think displayed price is implying in-store.

          I guess they could also say they are effectively "withdrawing the item" and can't sell it to you at that (cheaper/incorrect) price while they await H/O advice, price correction notice for shelf/newspaper, etc

        • StewBalls on 21/01/2012 - 13:23

          I guess they could also say they are effectively "withdrawing the item" and can't sell it to you at that (cheaper/incorrect) price…

          I don't believe they can have it both ways, 'withdraw' should mean not for sale at all, not at an arbitrary price that suits the retailer…that would be opening the door for wholesale bait & switch IMHO.

      • ozguy on 21/01/2012 - 12:32

        Interesting. I've been unable to find a price correction in today's SMH (though there was a presumably pre-booked full page colour advert.)

        Your second link to the legal discussion about the broader picture in England and Germany is largely about online ordering rather than advertising in general.

        More relevant to OW's printed advert though is the following line:

        "In the context of off-line purchases, however, the general presumption is that a contract is voidable if the error is substantial and the other party is notified prior to making an irreversible change of position".

        As people chasing this deal have found, the outcome achieved appears very mch a matter of luck and the individual staff member serving you, and their supervisor if they enter the fray.

  • voltfox on 20/01/2012 - 19:34

    Got one around lunch time today from Officeworks Alexandria, they honor the price and it's quite a big printer.

    P.S. Let me know if anyone wants the receipt, Thanks.

    • harryzee on 20/01/2012 - 20:30

      Can you please upload the receipt voltfox.Do you know if they had many left?

  • Farrba on 20/01/2012 - 23:50

    tried it here in qld, the manager is aware of the misprint, i think all branches have been advised already.

  • IVI on 21/01/2012 - 09:40
    +2

    By some coincidence, I recently viewed a talk, in which
    it was said, that ALL colour laser printers are designed
    to print a unique array of yellow dots on EVERY page it
    prints, ie, to enable the UNIQUE identification of that
    printer, from anything it prints, eg, if it's ever used:

    1) to make some unlawful material (eg, copy of a book) or

    2) in an unlawful manner (eg, fraudulently)

    etc.

    I know: "If you don't break the law, you shouldn't care
    about a color laser printer, that can be tracked, from
    what is printed on them"

    Maybe you should view the talk; it's at http://TED.com:

    . Mikko Hypponen - Three types of online attack - 2011X

    • StewBalls on 21/01/2012 - 12:56

      TED.com = cool.shizz! :)

    • ashley1969 on 23/01/2012 - 23:40

      I remember reading something very similar a few years ago, and immediately went and checked my printer. I think it was to old to have done this.
      I think they print the serial number and other info in a code.

  • pelanalcon on 21/01/2012 - 10:49

    Five Dock tried, No success with Newspaper + Receipt Copy

  • cynix on 21/01/2012 - 17:43

    No luck at the Glebe Officeworks last night, but got a price match at Harvey Norman today :)

    • apk on 21/01/2012 - 20:37

      Can you please upload HN receipt?

      • mampha on 21/01/2012 - 20:51

        There's one listed above by OzJD, which is what I used :)

        • harryzee on 21/01/2012 - 23:02

          Which Harvey Norman store cynix?

  • grizz_li on 21/01/2012 - 21:06

    No luck at Parramatta store.

  • duwang on 21/01/2012 - 21:48

    No luck at Hornsby store…

  • blazed on 22/01/2012 - 10:14

    A price is an invitation to treat, if they honour it it's for PR reasons, not legal ones.

    • StewBalls on 22/01/2012 - 13:02

      Under contract law maybe, but IIRC consumer protection legislation is somewhat different. As you read the assorted Trade Practices act(s) etc you'll find that there are legislated guidelines for pricing, and penalties for breaching them with tactics like 'bait & switch'.

      • ozguy on 22/01/2012 - 17:45

        It's probably reasonable to assume (and for OW to argue) that this was not bait & switch, but rather, "we forgot to proof read, then advertised" :)

        • StewBalls on 22/01/2012 - 22:14

          Absolutely, no argument on that point & it was not what I was suggesting. However, in that case they also should pull them all from sale until adequate retractions are published as per the legislation & as noted in other comments here.

          My comment was a generic one about the reasons why contract law is & should be different to consumer protection legislation.

  • woodg on 23/01/2012 - 10:47

    I went to my local OfficeWorks on Saturday. They had the printer marked at $149. I spoke to a staff member (who appeared to be the supervisor). I showed the add from the paper. She said they would honour it and to get the cashier to contact her if it didn't scan correctly at the checkout. She even helped me get a trolly to carry the printer (which is in a huge box). At the checkout it scanned at the higher price so I asked the cashier to speak to her supervisor, which she did. Supervisor OK'd the lower price and away I went with a new printer at the cheap price.

  • j5ive on 23/01/2012 - 18:48

    Just got one at OW. Took a lot of convincing! Thanks for the POST!

    Does this printer need chips to refill with ebay kits?

  • j5ive on 23/01/2012 - 18:55

    http://tinypic.com/r/b845mx/5

  • astroe on 25/01/2012 - 20:39

    Look what I found guys… :(

    http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/2725/photorfw.jpg

    • ozguy on 25/01/2012 - 23:32

      Nice find (though not in an ozbargain kinda' way). Sort of puts the printer to bed, at the unnamed OW store at least.

      Still think there would be a chance of some mileage via this deal, but the poignant pic of an A4 page (printed for our day of fun last Friday, through to at least Saturday) saying that Age/SMH adverts were in error means it's a done deal.

      Goodnight Brother!

      Expired.

      • StewBalls on 26/01/2012 - 00:11

        Hmm, interesting…a printed A4 page in-store doesn't really meet the legislative guidelines as per daydream's comment earlier:

        "If mistakes in catalogues or advertisements have occurred, they can be fixed by *publishing a retraction in a publication with a similar circulation to the original advertisement." http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/869875

        Effectively, this changes nothing.

  • ozguy on 25/01/2012 - 23:33

    Cheap as chips colour laser printing. RIP

  • metalhead on 26/01/2012 - 19:15

    Got one from Harveys in Brisbane today. A mate was kind enough to help me take it to his place (i shall pick up the item later) in his hatchback. I had to call on him for help as it was too big to strap to the back of my motorbike, which strangely has straps to strap items on to. Its just bizarre, what was Kawasaki thinking ? LOL <sarcasm> guys, the printer is massive !

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