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aau1

willowwispy wrote: »

I wouldn't either Tinyshoes, could be seen as fraudulent deception, but it is also illegal for stores to put a higher price label on top of a lower one. They should be ammending store price system to sell at correct price, very grey area :eek:

Don't be daft

aau1

Bananababe wrote: »

Ah the joys - not, does anyone on here with iphone realise that orange charges you £5 on a rolling months for using BT wifi hotpots !!

Just found this out after OH says all his credit keeps disappearing. And it charges him for GPRS when it drops off 3G !! They been charging since September ! :eek:

Was be using it in wetherfield?

Boom-boom-tish

:rotfl:

Savvybuyer

willowwispy wrote: »

I wouldn't either Tinyshoes, could be seen as fraudulent deception, but it is also illegal for stores to put a higher price label on top of a lower one. They should be ammending store price system to sell at correct price, very grey area :eek:

I don't think it is - ever since the Price Marking (Prohibition of Re-Pricing) Order, or whatever it was called, 1970 something, was revoked a long time ago. (V hazy memory of that at the moment, and may have covered only certain items e.g. fresh? non-fresh? That was probably E,W & N.I. all along. Anyway, waffling!:D) (You can see Trading Standards stuff was one of my specialist areas of interest of some time ago.)

Good night/morning!:):D:wave:

Savvybuyer

Here we are (Google search comes to the rescue:D):

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1978/nov/21/food-prohibition-of-repricing-order-1978

For historical interest only. And don't know regarding authenticity or not of that site. I assume it's accurate (certainly looks it).

fairclaire

aau1 wrote: »

Don't be daft

in all fairness.....as a responsible person it is illegal to scan an item at anything other than what the store have stickered it at. the all important contract doesn't exist once you do that.
I am getting really concerned that new people to this thread will think that things that are blatantly illegal are ok to do that's not what we are about

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

in all fairness.....as a responsible person it is illegal to scan an item at anything other than what the store have stickered it at. the all important contract doesn't exist once you do that.
I am getting really concerned that new people to this thread will think that things that are blatantly illegal are ok to do that's not what we are about

I don't think that's 100% correct:p - presumably if I've had a whoopsie label and the scanner accidentally caught the one underneath and came up at a higher whoopsie price (before it got reduced further), that would be an okay scan? (I got the SA to put the correct, lower price in.) But I don't think you're talking about that situation. If the barcode relates to the item (i.e. hasn't been tampered with), I don't care what price it scans at or doesn't (as long as that price is good). Price marking is irrelevant - what it scans at is what matters. But this is the SEL issue - where the SEL is incorrect and the item is actually a different (usually for me now, a higher:D) price. You're talking about customers moving price labels from one item to another, in order to scan a much reduced price for an item other than the one they've bought. That's clearly wrong - taking labels off one item and onto another. It's to defraud the business and it's illegal.

But my sort of situation - I took a label off one Canteloupe Melon and put it onto the Canteloupe Melon I bought - in order to ensure the SA scanned it at the correct price (never trust these folks - they always put things through as a different item manually and then it messes up the APG). Both melons were the same ones, and on the same price. I preferred one with a barcode label than one without (which happened to be slightly smaller in the same tray) - to ensure the ruddy folks at the till wouldn't put it down as black grapes or something.

But that's not the point. It's the intention that matters - what you are trying to do. And swapped labels from one product to another is a form of fraud.

Oh, btw, goodnight!:rotfl::rotfl::D:wave::wave:

aau1

fairclaire wrote: »

in all fairness.....as a responsible person it is illegal to scan an item at anything other than what the store have stickered it at. the all important contract doesn't exist once you do that.
I am getting really concerned that new people to this thread will think that things that are blatantly illegal are ok to do that's not what we are about

I agree but i was steering clear of that point and focussing on the legality of stores increasing prices

The store can set whatever price they want. Even if an Item is flashmarked 50p on the wrapper the store can advertise and sell it for 55p. That 50p is only the rrp or srp but the store sets the actual retail price based on its own costings. Admittedly it's rare as most stores would go with the wrapper price but they don't have to

Call_of_Trouty

Someone posted a link the other day to get a leccy toothbrush for £1, did anyone do it ?
I remember someone posting after saying it looked dodgy.

Picasso7

davemorton wrote: »

You need a minimum of 10 characters to post, so when you are short, people type s10ct (means something like short 10 characters or something like that)

squigs wrote: »

Stupid 10 character thingy!!:):)

I would never have guessed that! Thank you, both!! Dying to use it now...

aau1

Absolutely nothing to do with money savîng but THE WALKING DEAD IS BACK ON FX :j :j :j

Not on right now but next showing is at 9pm

Is Monday night the new night for it or did i miss the first airing on Friday?