Mexican man wins typo case against Cartier, keeps earrings bought for $13

A typo connected Cartier's website that incorrectly priced a brace of gold-and-diamond earrings ended up being a costly correction for nan luxury jewelry retailer. 

A user successful Mexico said successful a post on societal media level X that he was idly browsing Instagram erstwhile reviews for a perfume led him to browse nan Cartier website wherever he came crossed nan shockingly low-priced brace of earrings. 

Typically 237,000 pesos, aliases much than $13,000, nan jewelry was listed for waste for 237 pesos, aliases astir $13, nan New York Times reported. It appears Cartier omitted 3 zeros, sheerly by mistake. 

When Rogelio Villarreal, a Mexican doctor, saw nan debased price, he collapsed retired successful a acold sweat, he said successful nan post.

Upon clicking to acquisition nan earrings, Villarreal unwittingly kicked disconnected a monthslong conflict pinch nan luxury retailer that moreover drew liking from nationalist figures. 

Initially, Cartier tried to cancel nan bid together, and compensate Villarreal pinch a vessel of champagne and mini leather accessory to apologize for nan inconvenience it had caused, according to reporting from Agence France Presse. But Villarreal deemed nan connection unsatisfactory, and alternatively raised nan lawsuit pinch Mexico's national user protection agency, which sided pinch him.

Last week, nan French jeweler accepted nan user agency's ruling. "War is over. Cartier is complying," Villarreal said successful an April 22 post.

Cartier did not instantly respond to PapaRead MoneyWatch's petition for comment. Mexico's national user protection agency besides did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. 

Villarreal posted an image of nan 2 mini wrapped boxes pinch Cartier's signature wax stamp, indicating nan earrings had arrived. Not everyone was arsenic happy arsenic nan purchaser pinch nan outcome. 

Mexican Senator Lilly Téllez weighed in, saying successful a post on X that she didn't deliberation Villarreal should person been entitled to support nan earrings simply because a retailer had made a mistake. "Kids: What nan purchaser of nan Cartier earrings did is not correct,"the legislator wrote. "It's incorrect to beryllium opportunistic and return advantage of a correction astatine nan disbursal of personification else, and maltreatment nan law, moreover if it's successful your favor, and outwit a business. It is much important to beryllium honorable than to person a brace of Cartier earrings."