On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:21:38 GMT, Baldoni wrote:
>I was told long ago that an item had to be sold by the price on that
>item regardless if the item cost more than the actuall price wrongly
>placed on item. Also I was told that on no account must new price tags
>be placed over old price tags.
>The customer can insist on this. That is how it used to be anyway.
The law certainly is not like that now, and I don't believe that it
ever was like that. It would mean that if someone were to wipe a few
zeros off the price written on a windscreen in a car dealer's lot one
night, you'd be able to rush into the showroom as soon as it opened
and demand to buy a £50000 car for £5.
The law is, and AFAIK has always been, that the customer cannot insist
on being sold anything at all. The customer is making an offer for
the goods at the till, and it is for the person at the till to decide
whether or not to accept the offer.
Of course, there are some shops that will agree to honour any shelf
price or even to match the shelf price of any other store in the area
- but that is for marketing and goodwill reasons, not because they are
obliged to do so.
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Cynic
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