are they allowed to do this?

arcon5

Are you allowed to be peeling the price labels off before you buy the item should be the question we're asking!

System

arcon5 wrote: »

Are you allowed to be peeling the price labels off before you buy the item should be the question we're asking!

These days as most things use bar codes and get scanned at the till, then peeling the price off will just cause an argument when you are told a different price to the one that you are fraudulently attempting to purchase the item for.

tattycath

I didn't try to peel off a price, it was a blank label.

tattycath

The only visible price on the product was on the shelf edge label

easyhost

flashg67 wrote: »

Apparently, the £2.99 price is already pre-printed onto the book, so short of ripping the corner off, there's not much alternative but to cover it up? WH Smith tell the assistants to cover the old price and are given blank labels to do this. The 'new' price is only shown on the shelf-edge strip.

well the price pre printed on a book or any goods is the RRP (recommended retails price), this does not mean a retailer has to sell it at that price.

how many times have you gone into a supermarket and picked up items pre printed and the price is different when you go and pay for it.

i am in retail and i have seen items in wholesalers where they give a RRP for an item and after you have paid for the item + VAT their is no viable way you could sell at the RRP and make a justifiable profit.

bcl999

pulliptears wrote: »

Yes, of course they are allowed to do it! Prices increase, they are well within their rights to re-price both up and down.

Nobody is saying they are not. The question was whether they were allowed to retain the previous (lower-price) sticker when increasing the price or whether by law this had to be completely removed. I recall there was a time when that was so but it may have been as far back as 70s or 80s when inflation was rampant.


Please take a moment to consider the question asked in future before posting your reply.

halibut2209

I've always thought that if a price is printed onto the product, then you cannot charge more. I'm a smoker and I always go to shops which sell cigarettes with the prices on the packaging. And they always sell at those prices even if the prices have since gone up.

wealdroam

bcl999 wrote: »

Nobody is saying they are not. The question was whether they were allowed to retain the previous (lower-price) sticker when increasing the price or whether by law this had to be completely removed. I recall there was a time when that was so but it may have been as far back as 70s or 80s when inflation was rampant.


Please take a moment to consider the question asked in future before posting your reply.

Thankyou for finding the time to advise us all.

If you had taken a few more moments and read the rest of the thread you would've found that the OP told us that there was no "previous (lower-price) sticker" to remove...

tattycath wrote: »

Thank you-I used to work in retail and seem to remember there being a rule not allowing a more expensive label to be put over a cheaper price. i wondered if the same applied to blank labels and higher price charges. The original price was on the actual book -it wasn't a label.
Thank you for your replies x

birkee

I found a first edition of Shakespears plays in a bookshop once!
It said 3 groats inside the cover, but they wanted to charge me £21, so I refused it and walked out.

halibut2209

birkee wrote: »

I found a first edition of Shakespears plays in a bookshop once!
It said 3 groats inside the cover, but they wanted to charge me £21, so I refused it and walked out.

Hmm, which reply to give to that.

1) So it had 3 groats printed on it?

2) Some comment about how laws might have changed since the 16th century

3) This goes with point 1, but pretty sure that would be a 2nd hand book

4) If it was inside the cover, it wouldn't be covering up the original price, assuming that point 3 is false

The point is that the shop buys the product from the wholesaler at a price where the profit is reflected in the printed RRP. So to up that is (IMO) unlawful. Going back to the cigarette argument, places like petrol station which are renowned for high mark-ups buy cigarettes without the packaging with a price on them so they can charge what they like. But if they have a price on them, they sell them for that amount. The OP has a valid point.

Of course, it would have been better if that was made clear at the start LOL. Now we have to wade through all the posts made by people who didn't read through the whole thread.