Jethro has brought this to us :
> On 20 Mar, 16:50, Baldoni wrote:
>> Cynic formulated on Thursday :
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>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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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>> 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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> I suspect she wasn't employed as the stores legal expert though ....
No not at all. I remember she married a squaddie and went to live in
the Army Apprentices College near to the old Severn Bridge. Her old
man was a copper in the Met though.
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Count Baldoni
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