Someone can't do their maths

ampersand

misscomickat wrote: »

I live on my own, and don't have a car, so don't want to buy two lots of things.

Often BOGOF are on things you wouldn't usually buy anyway. They are rarely on items you would actually buy and NEED on a regular basis, like, I don't know, washing power or toilet paper.

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Where the offer IS worthwhile - MENTAL ARITHMETIC, NOT CALCULATORS, PLEASE - use it and return one immediately at CS on your way out.

uktim29

ampersand wrote: »

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Where the offer IS worthwhile - MENTAL ARITHMETIC, NOT CALCULATORS, PLEASE - use it and return one immediately at CS on your way out.

But the receipt will say you've brought 2!

ampersand

.....and you've decided to keep only one.

superscaper

ampersand wrote: »

.....and you've decided to keep only one.

I'm still not following this. You put two items in basket at a cost of x for one but you get second free. You pay x and you leave second item with CS. So you've still paid x for one item. How is this different to just putting the one item in the basket in the first place, rather than carrying around two and leaving the second at CS? Unless you get a monetary refund for it which I'm sure isn't right unless you return both items.

borgs

hjb123 wrote: »

lol, one I noticed in Tesco the other day was bottles of orange fanta, just the smallish I think 500ml ones - 44p each or 2 for £1.40!

In theory, you might be able to buy two of these and claim an overprice and get double the difference back. You could argue that you were buying two at the 44p each price and so have been overcharged by 52p. If they try to argue, pointing at the labels, you could argue that, as there are two prices, they have to charge the lower price and so have still overcharged you.

It's a bit of a grey area I agree.

Forgetful

the practise nowadays is its more economical to buy the smaller quantity...
On top of my head was the Nescafe coffee....it was cheaper to buy 2 smaller jars than buy the big equivalent jar.............

Adzha

They are strange, noticed lemonade 28p a bottle or 3 for £1!

Whats the deal in paying more?

peterbaker

I think this must surely be evidence of simple ignorance of the employees who manage the offers. As borgs says, surely anything else is an overcharging situation which is illegal as hell.

On a slightly different note, I once rubbed Asda's nose in a shelf labelling problem on a giant pack of washing powder. The same shelf label clearly showed the price of 9kg or whatever, and then showed a completely wrong and adversely misleading cost per kilo. Don't ask me how I noticed it ... I just have a good head for numbers and the whole label didn't ring true to me.

Quoting what I thought Tesco would have done back then, I argued they should give it to me free. As those were the days :rolleyes:, they did! I think that saved me about twelve quid :money:

superscaper

peterbaker wrote: »

As borgs says, surely anything else is an overcharging situation which is illegal as hell.

I don't know about that. Any price you see instore isn't legally binding and if I remember right is merely an invitation to make an offer. The price you get at the till is therefore a counteroffer for the customer to accept or decline.

peterbaker

superscaper, you are more of a pedant than I am sometimes (and that's saying something ) Don't get so hung up on the words of the bits of laws you remember, which means you miss the thrust of law that you don't ... just use your common! It's illegal as hell, period