Sales Assistants

Freebie_Hunter_2

lol ... yeah!!!

It's to do with the consumer laws poppy - if anything is marked lower than it comes up at the checkout then the shop isn't obliged to sell it to you at the marked price.

There have been problems with people swapping tickets and getting things cheaper than they should. It's to protect the sellers!

Seems to be the way, everything is worked in the sellers favour.

Thing is you can hardly deny 4 markdowns can you!!!

Robert_Sterling_3

After a 1/2 term trip which included a £50 fine for going into London's congestion zone.

You do not get fined for going into London's congestion zone. It only costs £5. You get fined if you fail to pay the £5 before about 10 pm the same day.

Poppy9

You do not get fined for going into London's congestion zone.  It only costs £5.  You get fined if you fail to pay the £5 before about 10 pm the same day.

Robert

See my post London congestion charge

This isn't new.  When I studied law 14 years ago the Sales of Goods Act never gave you the right to goods at the price they were marked.  The point that was drummed into us was that when a shop displayed it's goods it was an 'Invitation to Treat'.  This meant that they didn't have to sell you the goods if they didn't want to regardless of the price you wanted to pay.  If a shop had shoes marked at £10 and you for some mad reason had to have them and offered them £20 they don't have to sell them to you.  The only offence a shop committed if goods were incorrectly priced was over Misleading Prices.  Then only trading standards could take action - not individuals.  If something is wrongly priced all you can do is report it to trading standards - you cannot and never have been able to force them to sell it to you at that price.  Many big stores however will sell to you if it looks like a geniune pricing error.