Consumer right buying from a shop

dmg24

bingo_bango wrote: »

All that and nobody thought to mention intention to contract.....:whistle:

Perhaps because it is not relevant to the OP's question? :rolleyes:

bingo_bango

dmg24 wrote: »

Perhaps because it is not relevant to the OP's question? :rolleyes:

True, but then neither was most of what followed the original question..:p

I shall go and find someone else to annoy on this wet and miserable bank holiday Monday afternoon. You obviously don't want to play...:silenced:

Tozer

Valli wrote: »

***sobs***
I am a girl - I gotta pic of Gene Hunt because I think he's well fit guv'!
I was attempting, clumsily, to allude to the fact that offer has an everyday meaning but also a specific legal meaning which, being qualified in Law, I know full well...
Hence the commonly held misconception that shops, when they price their goods, (well the staff since we're being pedantic) MUST sell at the price.
In law (as so very many posters on here DO know) a price (stickered; advertised) is an invitation to treat and the offer is made when the customer walks into the shop and picks up (or otherwise indicates his/her intentions) the item and offers to buy it.
The shopkeeper can then agree to accept the offer to buy or decline it. I don't think it even needs to be verbal - pick up item, offer to pay, shopkeeper accepts payment, delivers/hands over goods. Contract fulfilled.
Or the shopkeeper can say that there has been a mistake and the item has been mispriced and there is nothing the would be consumer can do about it.
9/10 'll do for me...
and I would be a sad person if I took all posts made around what I personally have posted as serious BTW

(and it's an A Level...I have one A level and it's A Level Law....funnily enough, despite my University degree THAT'S the qualification I have which most impresses people...I did it at night school, too!)

The "misconception" is brought about because, theoretically, the retailer commits an offence if the item is NOT sold at the advertised price.