TESCO...Is this discrimination??

maginot

As has been previously mentioned by posters to your original post OP.

This is not discrimination, to be discrimination you would go up to buy the bike and then the customer assistant said you couldn't buy that because you were a girl (but boys could) or they said, as you are a girl we are going to have to charge you more (again boys could buy it for the cheaper price). Iam talking about just one bike here.

In this case, both boys and girls pay the same price for each of the bikes. If a boy wanted the higher priced bike they would have to pay the higher price.

Also it is often the case that different colours can often increase prices of products significantly due to retooling costs etc. This is definitley true for laptops, whereby if people buy black laptops, these are cheaper than red or pink etc and again this is not discriminatory towards girls.

mo786uk

No laws are being broken therefore TS will not do anything and tell you to go away. TS can only act when one of the laws they enforce has been breached - unfortunatley they cannot help when something appears to simply be unfair but not necessarily misleading.

DCFC79

How on earth can this be discrimination i dont know, if you had tried to buy it but told you couldnt as it wouldnt be ridden by a boy then yes you might have a case.

Be interesting to hear what TS say about it, another 1 post wonder gone then

Next please

gordikin

sadielu wrote: »

Because I believe that they will log my question, investigate it and respond politely and courteously however ridiculous they think my question is and that is more than I can say for some of the posts on here.

I really don't understand what pleasure people get out of being unpleasant for the sake of it, being nice costs nothing, surely if you think someone is in the wrong you can say it nicely. Or you can say nothing and avoid making someone feel bad for your own amusement.

So I will go to TS now and in the future and leave you all to be unpleasant to someone else.

You were given the info you requested politely in post #2. Please don't waste Trading Standards time with this.

DCFC79

gordikin wrote: »

You were given the info you requested politely in post #2. Please don't waste Trading Standards time with this.

maybe it wasnt the answer they were thinking of getting

dmg24

gordikin wrote: »

You were given the info you requested politely in post #2. Please don't waste Trading Standards time with this.

I do wonder if people would be so willing to make spurious complaints if they had to pay to do so?

danothy

dmg24 wrote: »

I do wonder if people would be so willing to make spurious complaints if they had to pay to do so?

I can't more strongly disagree with this. You should never have to pay to complain. You should have to pass a test first though.

JOHN1982

globetraveller wrote: »

this is a mse forum. Very strange to think that some folks actually can't see anything wrong with different prices for exactly the same product.

I was thinking more along the lines that this is a MSE forum so I'd have thought more people would be saying "Buy the cheaper bike. You'll save £80 and I'm sure your daughter will love it regardless!".

sadielu

gordikin wrote: »

You were given the info you requested politely in post #2. Please don't waste Trading Standards time with this.

You are correct your post was polite and I thank you.

sadielu

DCFC79 wrote: »

How on earth can this be discrimination i dont know, if you had tried to buy it but told you couldnt as it wouldnt be ridden by a boy then yes you might have a case.

Be interesting to hear what TS say about it, another 1 post wonder gone then

Next please

Perhaps the reason that there are so many "one post wonders" as you call them is down to posts like yours and some others on here. Like I said it costs nothing to be nice and frankly more people would contribute and be better informed if they weren't mocked for doing so.