Cynic formulated on Thursday :
> 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.
I once saw a store assistant insist that she sold a pan for less than
it was worth because it was priced less than it's value. I took her
words at the time to mean that it was the law. Glad to have cleared
that up after all that time, 27 years !
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Count Baldoni
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