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iammumtoone

powerful_Rogue wrote: »

Where do you keep getting the "8" from? Even if the child was 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 or 17 they would still have refused - Its an age restricted item. The cashier must have been under the impression the OP was purchasing it for the 8 year old and as such refused the sale.

the age 8 comes from the packet

It states to be used under supervision, children should be at least 8 to use.

Why would the cashier think that the item was for the child to use alone. If they heard the adult say something along the lines of 'when we get home I will be going out for the evening and when I get back I expect the pumpkin to be carved" they would be within their rights but I very much doubt that happened.

Shrimply

I'd like to see a link to this legislation that states you can't sell a age restricted product to someone if they are purchasing it for someone below the restricted age.

Yes that applies to tobacco and alcohol where it is against the law for children to be in possession of them.

But given there is no age related laws to owning or using a knife, or purchasing for, or providing a knife to, someone who is under 18. How can that legislation possibly exist.

iammumtoone

Shrimply raises a good point.

If I went into a store and tried to buy a cutlery set whilst my child was with me, would I be refused?

In the case of a cutlery set it would be obvious that my child would be using the set as well as myself and other members of the family. I might even go so far as to leave him alone to eat his dinner whilst I was in another room :eek:

hollydays

iammumtoone wrote: »

the age 8 comes from the packet

It states to be used under supervision, children should be at least 8 to use.

Why would the cashier think that the item was for the child to use alone. If they heard the adult say something along the lines of 'when we get home I will be going out for the evening and when I get back I expect the pumpkin to be carved" they would be within their rights but I very much doubt that happened.

From previous posts it's looking like the ops Gd is about five so clearly not eight.


Not sure , as someone's highlighted , how not selling a sort- of slightly stick -like tool is legislated against .Perhaps this is the start of supermarkets making up the rules themselves.
What fun.
What about pencils -you could take someone's eye out with one of those.

pendragon_arther

powerful_Rogue wrote: »

When you are able to reply like an adult without such rudeness I will engage in debate with you.

But it appears you're only being obtuse for windup purposes. Either that or you're mindset is that of someone underage.

1000's of these items were sold probably by an adult with an underage child besides them. The cash/wonger was handed over by an adult who is overage who is by law assumed to be qualified to supervise the kid unless we've become a Ganny state and this is not so. This particular assistant assumed the granny before them was not able to supervise the kid for reasons I stated earlier that their brain was transplanted into another person by a brain surgeon thus leaving them unable to perform a simple assessment of the words printed on the screen in front of them.

Azari

powerful_Rogue wrote: »

When you are able to reply like an adult without such rudeness I will engage in debate with you.

There was nothing particularly rude or childlike about the post to which you are referring.

Sadly, the same cannot be said for your own little hissy fit, above.

powerful_Rogue

Shrimply wrote: »

I'd like to see a link to this legislation that states you can't sell a age restricted product to someone if they are purchasing it for someone below the restricted age.

Yes that applies to tobacco and alcohol where it is against the law for children to be in possession of them.

But given there is no age related laws to owning or using a knife, or purchasing for, or providing a knife to, someone who is under 18. How can that legislation possibly exist.

It is illegal to:

• sell a knife of any kind (including cutlery and kitchen knives) to anyone under 18

Its also illegal for someone over the age of 18 to purchase an age restricted item for someone under 18.


Its the cashiers decision not to make the sale if she believes the adult is purchasing the age restricted item for someone underage.

powerful_Rogue

hollydays wrote: »

From previous posts it's looking like the ops Gd is about five so clearly not eight.


Not sure , as someone's highlighted , how not selling a sort- of slightly stick -like tool is legislated against .Perhaps this is the start of supermarkets making up the rules themselves.
What fun.
What about pencils -you could take someone's eye out with one of those.

It is illegal to:

• sell a knife of any kind (including cutlery and kitchen knives) to anyone under 18

powerful_Rogue

pendragon_arther wrote: »

But it appears you're only being obtuse for windup purposes. Either that or you're mindset is that of someone underage.

So because I don't agree you have to result to insults. Far to many posters on here recently with that mindset. What happened to having a good adult debate.

powerful_Rogue

Azari wrote: »

There was nothing particularly rude or childlike about the post to which you are referring.

Sadly, the same cannot be said for your own little hissy fit, above.

Coming from one of the rudest posters on here, its no surprise you cant see the insults.

Please feel free to highlight my so call "hissy fit