Black Friday price drop after purchase

abracadab

Hi
I recently bought (within the last month) some home security cameras from Eufy. They were on offer via a voucher code they were advertising on their site which took the price down from £229 to £185. Today I see that the Black Friday price is £149.99 - can I get a refund for the difference?

Thanks in advance

Jamal

Penguin_

Would you pay the difference to them if you bought at £149.99 & they put the price back up to £185 tomorrow?

lily117

It's the luck of the draw I'm afraid. I guess your only option would be to return and re-buy if that's possible. Then you would probably have to pay quite steep postage.

elsien

Do your research and check the usual prices before you buy. Buy at a price you are happy with (which presumably you did.)  Stop checking prices after that because if you feel you got them at a price you were willing to pay, what happens after that is academic. 

abracadab

Penguin_ said:

Would you pay the difference to them if you bought at £149.99 & they put the price back up to £185 tomorrow?

Why would I pay more after my purchase if the retailer has put the price back up again? As far as I know, your consumer rights state that if an item is purchased and subsequently, the price is dropped within 28 days of that purchase, you have a right to request a reimbursement for the difference between what you paid and what the current price is - hence my question.

I'm happy with the price I paid, but if be happier with an additional saving of £35 - who wouldn't?

JJ_Egan

(As far as I know, your consumer rights state that if an item is purchased and subsequently, the price is dropped within 28 days of that purchase, you have a right to request a reimbursement for the difference between what you paid and what the current price is - hence my question.

LINK to this please as i have never heard of this claimed above .

Mickey666

Yes, a link to this ‘right’ would be very interesting.  If true, it would surely be a nightmare for any business holding a sale as they would have reimburse all their customers for the previous 28 days.  Seems unlikely to me.

JJ_Egan

As above and i could probably claim on at least 50% of the stuff i have bought .Plus Consumer Rights board would be flooded with these sort of claims on a daily basis .

Last weeks Tesco loaf has dropped in price as have  Amazon dash cam and a few others from last 28 days .

Reads as poster is confused with price matching where some company will match price  up to xx days after purchase (often 14 days ).

28 days and Consumer Law probably the bit about sale price and having to be at the higher price for 28 days .

Bought online can be returned under Distance Selling Regulation .

elsien

abracadab said:

Penguin_ said:

Would you pay the difference to them if you bought at £149.99 & they put the price back up to £185 tomorrow?

Why would I pay more after my purchase if the retailer has put the price back up again? As far as I know, your consumer rights state that if an item is purchased and subsequently, the price is dropped within 28 days of that purchase, you have a right to request a reimbursement for the difference between what you paid and what the current price is - hence my question.

I'm happy with the price I paid, but if be happier with an additional saving of £35 - who wouldn't?

There is no such right.

I suspect you may be thinking of the guidance where a sale item had to be at a higher price for 28 days somewhere in one of the stores to count as a sale item/genuine reduction.  Those days are long gone and wouldn’t have given you the money back anyway, it would just have got the shop in trouble for false advertising. 
 https://marketinglaw.osborneclarke.com/advertising-regulation/no-more-28-day-rule-pricing-and-promotions-under-the-spotlight/
If you bought online you have the right to return as a change of mind purchase within 14 days, but as you’d then be buying a new set and you’d be hoping that a) the price was still low and b) they didn’t clock the second order and decide to decline your custom.