Trading standards

[tintin40]

Over the past few week noticed that 'Posh Bikes web site is still showing kit at out of date prices.
and our local Sainbury selling a lap top at a good price. Yet they don't have them in stock.

So contacted trading standards then contacted Consumer direct to tell them about this 'naughty' selling

I was informed that this wasn't illegal as treated as a 'Invitation to treat' :shock: :shock:

So the next time i sell some thing. It will be priced 'to treat' the buyer and the price may go up as it did with Posh bikes with a £300 increase.

 

[jamabikes]

all prices every where are an 'offer to sell' and no retailer, shop or other wise, has to sell the item at that price. they can, but never do, get fined £5000 per item on the peg/shelf with the wrong price if they a persistent offenders though. its to protect them from customers switching prices. and yes it does happen. a lot.

 

[suburbanreuben]

Poshbikes...
:roll:

 

[Midlife]

Tesco were selling I pad 3's at £49 on their website today.....as above it's simply an offer to treat / offer to chaffer (depending on how old you are) and they don't have to sell them at that price........

Shaun

 

[thenorth]

Over the past few week noticed that 'Posh Bikes web site is still showing kit at out of date prices.
and our local Sainbury selling a lap top at a good price. Yet they don't have them in stock.

So contacted trading standards then contacted Consumer direct to tell them about this 'naughty' selling

I was informed that this wasn't illegal as treated as a 'Invitation to treat' :shock: :shock:

So the next time i sell some thing. It will be priced 'to treat' the buyer and the price may go up as it did with Posh bikes with a £300 increase.

There is actually a criminal offence of 'misleading price indication' under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 - the whole 'invitation to treat' defence is actually part of contract law, protecting traders from being legally obliged to sell goods/services.

There's 2 ways of looking at it, if it's deliberate and the prices advertised are lower in order to entice the consumer, and they then have to pay more than the lower price, it's a misleading price indication. However if it's a mistake on the part of the trader or another party involved in the pricing/advertising of goods/services, or if they're followed the relevant codes of practice etc, it's probably not an offence.

 

[drcarlos]

Over the past few week noticed that 'Posh Bikes web site is still showing kit at out of date prices.
and our local Sainbury selling a lap top at a good price. Yet they don't have them in stock.

So contacted trading standards then contacted Consumer direct to tell them about this 'naughty' selling

I was informed that this wasn't illegal as treated as a 'Invitation to treat' :shock: :shock:

So the next time i sell some thing. It will be priced 'to treat' the buyer and the price may go up as it did with Posh bikes with a £300 increase.

There is actually a criminal offence of 'misleading price indication' under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 - the whole 'invitation to treat' defence is actually part of contract law, protecting traders from being legally obliged to sell goods/services.

There's 2 ways of looking at it, if it's deliberate and the prices advertised are lower in order to entice the consumer, and they then have to pay more than the lower price, it's a misleading price indication. However if it's a mistake on the part of the trader or another party involved in the pricing/advertising of goods/services, or if they're followed the relevant codes of practice etc, it's probably not an offence.

This is what was implied by a number of people who contacted Watchdog last night about Tescos and the iPad3.

Carl.

 

[Neil]

Over the past few week noticed that 'Posh Bikes web site is still showing kit at out of date prices.
and our local Sainbury selling a lap top at a good price. Yet they don't have them in stock.

So contacted trading standards then contacted Consumer direct to tell them about this 'naughty' selling

I was informed that this wasn't illegal as treated as a 'Invitation to treat' :shock: :shock:

So the next time i sell some thing. It will be priced 'to treat' the buyer and the price may go up as it did with Posh bikes with a £300 increase.

There is actually a criminal offence of 'misleading price indication' under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 - the whole 'invitation to treat' defence is actually part of contract law, protecting traders from being legally obliged to sell goods/services.

There's 2 ways of looking at it, if it's deliberate and the prices advertised are lower in order to entice the consumer, and they then have to pay more than the lower price, it's a misleading price indication. However if it's a mistake on the part of the trader or another party involved in the pricing/advertising of goods/services, or if they're followed the relevant codes of practice etc, it's probably not an offence.

This is what was implied by a number of people who contacted Watchdog last night about Tescos and the iPad3.

Naively, or otherwise, I suspect the majority of these incidents are examples of FUs rather than any attempted bait and switch.

I base that on never ascribing to malice what could be explained as incompetence - which I have to say as an idiom has largely served me well...

 

[johnnypie13]

Sainsbury were advertising Ipod shuffles at christmas at a reduced price but never had one in stock so i called them and they were very good

I got my Ipod delivered at the reduced price two weeks later at the reduced price even though the offer had finished a week before