Bait and switch or mistake?

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Do I have any weight in making them honor their original price?

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If this was the case you could pull out a clipping from 20 years ago of a McD's Value Meal and get it for .99 cents.

I imagine you could use it for negotiation purposes, nothing more or less.

i bought a used ford explorer about 6 years ago and my experience was similar


found it online at hollingsworth and it was listed for 10,700 which was a really good deal for what I was looking for

i went to the dealership and looked at it, and someone came out and talked to me....i asked her the price and was told 13,xxx

we went inside and I eventually brought up the internet price and we were able to pull it up on the computer to confirm

she went to the manager..blah blah blah...came back and said the price was a mistake and they could not sell it for that

I of course told them I was leaving, and I was stopped and they offered to match the internet price (even though it was a mistake, yeah right)

i reluctantly paid the full internet price because it was really a good deal and I felt that it could have possibly been a mistake

my wife went later that day to sign something that we missed on the paperwork, and the sales manager who was working that shift told her in a not so nice way..."if i would have been here earlier, that car would not have left the lot for that price...y'all are stealing from us"

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I informed him that I had a screen shot of the original advertised price

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Not sure if you really do or if this was a bluff but you DO have a screenshot saved in your cache file. I'm no internet genius, but I'm sure someone on the tech board could tell you how to retrieve it very easily. In the meantime, don't restart the computer or run something like CC cleaner, it may wipe the history out..