Faulty carrier bags

powerful_Rogue

janeyO wrote: »

Surely there should be a standard strength to this paid for carriers. The second one split and that only had the 2 litre bottle in it

There is no standard strength of carrier bags. Its up to common sense.

browneyedbazzi

There is no standard strength for carrier bags.

As for trying to claim it was not fit for purpose, it was sold for the purpose of carrying the litre bottle of alcohol that was purchased with it. It didn't split when that bottle was placed in it but after your friend rather stupidly put another 2L of liquid into it.

Sorry, your friend will have to take this as a lesson to learn. Perhaps if she is unhappy with the quality of cheap disposable carrier bags she should invest in a couple of decent strength reusable bags.

janeyO

browneyedbazzi wrote: »

There is no standard strength for carrier bags.

As for trying to claim it was not fit for purpose, it was sold for the purpose of carrying the litre bottle of alcohol that was purchased with it. It didn't split when that bottle was placed in it but after your friend rather stupidly put another 2L of liquid into it.

Sorry, your friend will have to take this as a lesson to learn. Perhaps if she is unhappy with the quality of cheap disposable carrier bags she should invest in a couple of decent strength reusable bags.

So if she'd have bought both drinks in the same shop and the bag split would she have been entitled to a refund then?

powerful_Rogue

janeyO wrote: »

So if she'd have bought both drinks in the same shop and the bag split would she have been entitled to a refund then?

All depends.

In your scenario, did she specifically ask if the bag would be ok to handle both products? If the shop assistant said yes, then she would have a claim.

Personally I wouldn't put 3l in one carrier bag, where the 1l product is expensive and in a glass bottle.

janeyO

Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply. I guess she'll have to learn the lesson that some shop carrier bags are not fit for more than one bottle at a time.

janeyO

powerful_Rogue wrote: »

All depends.

In your scenario, did she specifically ask if the bag would be ok to handle both products? If the shop assistant said yes, then she would have a claim.

Personally I wouldn't put 3l in one carrier bag, where the 1l product is expensive and in a glass bottle.

She didn't ask no. But then again who does ask these questions. I agree with you though, I wouldn't have put them both in the same bag. I'm sure she'll learn by this mistake.


I just wondered what her rights were here.


Thanks agaiin everyone

bris

She bought a bottle from one shop and put it in her bag, the bag was fine. She then went to another shop and bought a bottle twice the size and put it in the same bag and it broke. Why would the first shop be liable for a bag that the bottle from the second shop broke?