POSSIBLE tesco bargain - any bottle of wine for 9pounds?

lawbod

Ben500 - I'm not misinterpreting the reference material, I think you are assuming that I am referring to something different. I am not making any reference to Tesco's 'double the difference' scheme or any of their refund policies, but to the initial attempt by the purchaser to take advantage of the 'any bottle of wine' offer. If the purchaser takes, say, a £50 bottle of wine to the till and are subsequently told by the cashier that they cannot include wine of that value in the offer, despite the signage in the store saying 'any' bottle of wine (which we could all quite reasonably interpret in the ordinary way) they still are not obliged to honour this at the till. The vendor is not obliged to accept the purchaser's initial offer to buy a £50 bottle of wine with their ready meal. The purchaser could, of course, make a counter-offer with a cheaper bottle of wine.

ben500

lawbod wrote: »

Ben500 - I'm not misinterpreting the reference material, I think you are assuming that I am referring to something different. I am not making any reference to Tesco's 'double the difference' scheme or any of their refund policies, but to the initial attempt by the purchaser to take advantage of the 'any bottle of wine' offer. If the purchaser takes, say, a £50 bottle of wine to the till and are subsequently told by the cashier that they cannot include wine of that value in the offer, despite the signage in the store saying 'any' bottle of wine (which we could all quite reasonably interpret in the ordinary way) they still are not obliged to honour this at the till. The vendor is not obliged to accept the purchaser's initial offer to buy a £50 bottle of wine with their ready meal. The purchaser could, of course, make a counter-offer with a cheaper bottle of wine.

Quite right but the topic of discussion is relating to post sale period and not prior to acceptance of offer, if the consumers offer to treat has been accepted it is too late for the vendor to alter or withdraw from the contract, dtd only ever applies AFTER the event not prior to it, so in short your post was a little misleading in that it implied there was no obligation on Tesco's part to honour dtd when there is. Any adjustments to the agreement must be made prior to the vendors acceptance of the consumers offer to treat.

Most if not all of us here are aware that the invitation to treat can be withdrawn at any time prior to the exchange of payment.

moongarden

CG19a wrote: »

but picking up a £15 bottle is a bit extreme.

being both a wine drinker and a weekly shopper in Tesco spending £90 - £120 a time I don't think £15 is extreme at all. An average bottle of wine for us is between £10 and £20 and we buy two bottles most weeks.

If the Tesco marketing/promotional department thought it was extreme they should have said "Free Bottle of Wine" and then " to the value of £10" in the small print. Before this offer was made someone will have costed and forecasted how much increased revenue it would generate.

Given that CG19a is operational/delivery side I would not expect him/her (sorry not sure from name) to know how the offer has been costed, i.e. loss leader etc

ThinkingOfLinking

Moongarden, I was refused a £6.99 bottle of wine....I wasn't trying to push my luck too far.

dervish

rsykes2000 wrote: »

Massive sense of humour failure alert

Horton was being sarcastic.

it doesnt make his insults to MSers any less offensive. :rolleyes:

It has also been proven that Tesco really think nothing of ripping off their customers.

competitionscafe

What insults? He was being sarcastic.

VoucherMan

Jane_Cane wrote: »

I'm not trying to make a living out of Tesco mistakes. You have tried to use the information on this thread to take advantage. It is really poor form and impacts on the rest of us in terms of prices and 'loyalty, and is a very negative and unattractive trait.

My apologies for claiming a DTD pet. Dry your eyes. :rolleyes:

As you are obviously against people taking advantage of Tesco, why post the mis-price in the first place?

dervish

competitionscafe wrote: »

What insults? He was being sarcastic.

He called MSers 'disgusting'.

I find that is an insult. What he doesn't realise is that a lot of people here have NO OPTION but to find ways of moneysaving for their own financial survival.

Whether he was sarcasrtic is irrelevant. It was an uncaring and abusive post and it was uncalled for.

ben500

Dervish you have misunderstood the post it was not an attack on mser's

competitionscafe

Going back to the wine, given the supermarkets (not just Tescos) tendency to promote "half-price" wines which are actually full price (if they were sold at a realistic rrp reflecting what they were actually worth) it would make a nice change for people to buy a wine which was actually worth more than what they paid for it rather than less.

How the wine consumer is bamboozled:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/3484514/How-the-wine-consumer-is-bamboozled.html

Wine world soured as half-price offers are labelled misleading:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2006/aug/14/business.consumernews

The great wine rip-off
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/apr/05/supermarkets.food

http://www.supermarketwine.com/blog/discount-wines-anyone