How in the hell can a convenience store post an advertised price, and then not sell you the item at that price?
Clerk: “Oh, so solly, that was yesterday’s price.”
Me: “But you have a sign in the window stating that price. You should sell it to me at that price!”
Clerk: “No, I can’t do that.”
After I waited for him to finish microwaving his fucking noodles, and take a bite, before taking care of his customer.
I told him then he should take the goddamn signs (yes there were two!) down. Punk motherfucker just shrugged.
Isn’t there a law or something? I wouldn’t have stopped at this store if the goddamn sign didn’t say Marlboro $24.49.
Try talking to the manager of the store. If that doesn’t work, get a refund and never do business with them again. Tell your friends about it and ask they do the same and report them to the Better Business Bureau.
Delores, what state do you live in? In Michigan, we have the “scanner” law, which is that the store has to sell it at the advertised price (weather it be on the sign or a tag) and if they over charge you, you are entitled to:
Refund of the overcharge
10 times the over charge (not to exceed a certain amount, something like $10)
We ** like ** the scanner law. Of course, you still often have to “remind” them of it…
Check the laws in your state. In Virginia, any advertised price needed to be honored. When I was managing a Jerry’s Pizza & Subs in Manassas Park, we changed the prices of our combo daily specials, raising the price I think a quarter. We took down all of the signs and replaced them. Or so we thought. One sign, in the back of the restaurant, was overlooked. A customer noticed this, and we had to honor that price.
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I was at a local large retail store, Sears, on Saturday. I saw a large air compressor I have been wanting for a long time sitting in a display with a large price tag above it. The amount on the price tag was well below what the air compressor had ever been on sale. The price was so good that I located a sales person and told them I wanted one of the air compressors. The sales person looked at the compressor and then saw the price tag above it. I was told the price was incorrect, it was their mistake, and they would be happy to sell me the air compressor at the price quoted on the price tag.
I bought the air compressor and some accessories, I was pleased with Sears for honoring a posted price.
Fletch, Sears did what they were supposed to do: They honored their advertising.
When I worked at a newspaper I was told to proofread advertised pricing twice. If we advertised something at a wrong price–and the price was LOWER–the store would sell at the advertised price (when it was pointed out) and we would have to make up the difference. If I was the person who passed that ad the difference would be taken out of my salary.
No, it’s not bait and switch.
contrary to popular belief, I think that if a price is a MISTAKE, or outdated, they don’t HAVE to. I don’t know, it may vary from state to state.
No, it wasn’t a bait and switch. Everybody’s prices went up a day or two before then. I thought I was getting lucky. But I’ll definitely look into the law (in Texas) of posted advertised prices. This place was a little Mom and Pop convenience store, and the clerk was probably their son, and ignorant of the law (if in fact there is one).
I got my car for $5,000 less than it should have been. It is a used Mustang, and it had a pricetag hanging form the rear view mirror that said $9,999. I’d been shopping around and knew this was a great price, since others in the same condition were going for around $15,000. I even commented on the low price to the salesman several times and asked if there was anything wrong with it.
After I decided to buy it, the salesman went to talk to the manager to see what kind of deal he could make (ya right). Within seconds, every salesman in the place was in a huddle and I knew something was wrong. Soon, the manager and my salesman came back and told me someone had put the wrong price on the car. The $9,999 tag should have been on a Mystique. I believed him, because they had abbreviated the model name on the pricetag and, upon further inspection, we could see that it was MYST, not MUST.
However, with no argument about it, they sold it to me for $9,999. I kept thinking that I should just turn around and sell it for the profit, but I really liked that car.
I did that once and won!
They had a bunch of fleet cars, 2 year- and 3year-old basic fords, all in the newspaper for one price.
I thought it was odd, and saved the paper. The next day they had corrected the 2-year old prices to be $2,000 higher.
I went there, got his best price on a 2-year old, then whipped out my day-old newspaper ad. He was still $1000 above the newspaper price, but he caved and dropped to the misprint price.
I think that happened in that movie Falling Down, Michael Douglas smashed the store up. Not that I’m trying to suggest anything of course **
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Am I the only person in the world with a warped-enough sense of humor to think Falling Down was a comedy? I laughed my ass off at that movie. **
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hell, I can’t watch them movie without laughing my butt off at the idiot. Espically in the Burger King scene, where he goes postal becuse it’s lunch and not breakfast. I want to yell “Tought Shit! Eat a damn burger! One won’t kill ya!” to the screen every time.
