Admittedly the UK isn't the USA but here you would have to prove a loss for a useful legal case. Since you have your money back you are at least even, the useless voucher is a poorly judged compensation but neitherless you haven't incurred anything more than a small time loss.
I know you are angry with Dicks, I get that. It is the reason I myself run a rule that every company gets three strikes, once they hit it I don't ever deal with them again and I make sure to tell others why I won't. This ensures I never get too angry and it sets my expectation of how long to pursue a problem.
In this case do you really want to pursue a year or more of legal action when you could be doing something else with that time? It isn't about right and wrong its simply about whether its genuinely worth it to you. Don't take responsibility to protect others, just ensure you are doing this because that is what thou want to do with your life. If you had other plans for this year there might be value in letting this wrong go and just refusing to deal with Dicks again.
It won't take a year of my life. I've done one other litigation before and it turned out good. Small claims, but no biggie.
As I said, if I accepted their offer of a refund, it would be legally binding. But I am not legally bound to accept the refund. If I don't, then they are still legally bound to provide the product I paid for. Until they do, I'm riding this all the way. I know it won't cost me a dime or even really much time to do so. Everyone posting here has some really twisted misconceptions of how litigations work. I seriously have no idea where they are drawing these conclusions from.
As I said, truthfully if they had provided me with enough in the form of a GC to get an equivalent quality AR15 from one of their stores this would be a non issue for me. Or if they had offered to substitute a completely different AR15 of equal or greater value. That TYPICALLY is what most retailers do in this situation. Last time I did a back order from a store front, I think it was office depot for a printer, that ended up not coming back in stock, they offered either a refund or a substitution of the next model up. I took the next model up with no additional cost to me. But that is not what happened here in the least.
I have no idea how hard it is to litigate or how much trouble it is in the UK, but it is not usually that big of a deal here so long as it is a strong case like mine. And usually for a strong case it rarely ever sees a courtroom when dealing with a business.
Did you get your gun yet?
Now you are just trolling for no reason.
I am willing to bet Dick's legal team knows the law, and the loopholes better than yours I am willing to bet $100 bucks on it too :biggrin:
If that was true then no company would ever have been successfully sued right?