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3CorsaMeal
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where do i stand with this?

A uk company is advertising car parts that would normally cost me just over £100 for £55-£75, meant to be genuine parts too.

So ring them up and they claim the advert is years out of date, yet they still advertise them and the ad is online.

isn't that false advertising?
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yes
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and they are legally obliged to honour that price, all they can do is refuse to sell it altogether
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yes, they are trying to get customers by putting the prices lower than they should be.

as bad as the companies the put ''from 99p'' and you end up paying 50 quid, except that's legal.
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noticed this appear on the site

"Sorry these items are no longer available from us. We now only supply & fit engines & gearboxes for all makes & models. "

might of been there before but deffo not as noticable as it is now
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
and they are legally obliged to honour that price, all they can do is refuse to sell it altogether


this is not true.
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how is it not they have marked it at that price that means they either sell it at that price or refuse to sell it, of course the customer could choose to pay full price but that would be silly lol
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quote:
Originally posted by BarnshaW
quote:
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and they are legally obliged to honour that price, all they can do is refuse to sell it altogether


this is not true.


Barnshaw Is correct i work in retail and i assure you that is not true at all
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so what other option is there then

this is what i was told when i worked on customer services at tescos anyway, was always selling stuff at prices that were incorrectly marked, told it was legally what we had to do.

Or refuse sale, which wasnt tescos policy so we never did that.

Like i said the customer could pay the full price if they wanted, not sure what other scenario there is
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Barnshaw, I did contract law last year and this came up, the price shown is just a mere invitation to treat. It becomes a contract when the item is scanned through the till or go through checkout on the internet.
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Barnshaw, I did contract law last year and this came up, the price shown is just a mere invitation to treat. It becomes a contract when the item is scanned through the till or go through checkout on the internet.


Correct, we did a whole section on 'invitation to treat' in business studies.
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'invitation to men'
Baskey
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Agreed it's gay and confusing
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just because something is labelled up at a price on a website does not mean it HAS to be sold at that price, if vauxhall or ford accidentally labelled a car up at a pound then you would not be entitled to get the car for a pound.

Its like those times where websites have advertised products at the wrong price and people buy hundreds of them but they just get an email stating it was a mistake and the money would be refunded.
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no i know thats not what i said i said if they choose to sell it to you has to be at that price,

in that example you said vauxhall would just choose not to sell it, and then it would be up to the customer to decide if they want to pay the actual price
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I still dont think you have any idea what you are talking about steven J williams
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quote:
Originally posted by BarnshaW
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quote:
Originally posted by saj_123
Barnshaw, I did contract law last year and this came up, the price shown is just a mere invitation to treat. It becomes a contract when the item is scanned through the till or go through checkout on the internet.


I'm sure there is some limitation about it being a MARKED price?
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All you lot started arguing without actually reading what he wrote.

They must sell at the advertised price or not at all. As a customer you can't take something to a till expecting to pay £4 but they charge you £8.

They have to either honour £4 or decline to sell it to you.

 
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