Glue in hot glue guns

[caretaker]

Can any one explain to me why some glue sticks are £1 a packet and the same size pack on a lower shelf is £2.99, both same size and quantity.
Reg

 

[AndyT]

Because you have been looking in a big store where pricing is computerised and remote, leaving store staff with no sense of responsibility or need to understand what they sell.

 

[Grahamshed]

Perhaps they are supporters of apartheid, Goody style. Under this system it would be perfectly reasonable to charge short people triple the normal cost.

By the way, I am 7ft 6in so I only pay 50p

 

[rafezetter]

Perhaps they are supporters of apartheid, Goody style. Under this system it would be perfectly reasonable to charge short people triple the normal cost.

By the way, I am 7ft 6in so I only pay 50p

no way.. 7' 6 ? That's seriously tall.

it used to be that you could force a sale of goods on the price displayed regardless of how ridiculously cheap it might be, but after some issues years back the law was changed so that a trader can refuse a sale for a lower price. Having said that, if there's an obvious discrepancy on multiple items of the same type displayed I'm guessing you'd have a good argument to say they should have corrected it by now and get the item for the lower price.

This also applies to items where the "sale price" ticket is still on display after the offer has finished, their fault, not yours.

 

[Grahamshed]

Perhaps they are supporters of apartheid, Goody style. Under this system it would be perfectly reasonable to charge short people triple the normal cost.

By the way, I am 7ft 6in so I only pay 50p

no way.. 7' 6 ? That's seriously tall.

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No, not really, but I will stretch for a bargain

 

[Giff]

New stock..treble the price ? I think it happens a lot. Look at the prices on old packs and boxes in your workshop and have a shock ! Geoff

 

[shed9]

it used to be that you could force a sale of goods on the price displayed regardless of how ridiculously cheap it might be, but after some issues years back the law was changed so that a trader can refuse a sale for a lower price. Having said that, if there's an obvious discrepancy on multiple items of the same type displayed I'm guessing you'd have a good argument to say they should have corrected it by now and get the item for the lower price.

This also applies to items where the "sale price" ticket is still on display after the offer has finished, their fault, not yours.

I understood the sale of goods act to be based on offer and counter offer - no advertised price, no matter how small is a legal obligation to sell - past or present.

 

[Grahamshed]

it used to be that you could force a sale of goods on the price displayed regardless of how ridiculously cheap it might be, but after some issues years back the law was changed so that a trader can refuse a sale for a lower price. Having said that, if there's an obvious discrepancy on multiple items of the same type displayed I'm guessing you'd have a good argument to say they should have corrected it by now and get the item for the lower price.

This also applies to items where the "sale price" ticket is still on display after the offer has finished, their fault, not yours.

I understood the sale of goods act to be based on offer and counter offer - no advertised price, no matter how small is a legal obligation to sell - past or present.

That was my understanding as well. An invite to trade.