Wait, are you trying to say that customers sometimes are not 100% accurate with matters of law? So the movie theatre I worked for wasn’t in violation of federal law by not having Diet Coke?
That is the law. If the item is marked at two prices, it is illegal for the store to sell it at the higher price, but they can withdraw it from sale.
Cite: http://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/Consumers/Buying_goods/Consumer_rights_myths_and_facts.html
If it was in a supermarket that is a signatory of the voluntary Scanning Code of Practice, then the first item that scans higher than the marked price is free, and if the customer is buying multiple of that item, the rest are marked down to the lower price.
Cite: http://www.anra.com.au/Scanning%20Code%20of%20Practice%20for%20Supermarkets/ScanningCode
I did get one over on Walmart for the wrong price of an item though. They had XBox 360 controllers with the battery charger and battery on a rack. I think they were $70 at the time. The pricetag below them was $20. It even had a description of the item. A friend of mine was buying a game, so I pointed to it and asked the guy if it was wrong. He said yeah, and pulled the price tag off. I asked him if I could buy it for the price that it was listed at. He said he technically had to sell it at the price. I hadn’t planned to, but I ended up with a spare controller and charger that night.
Yeah, I got a $60 game for $20 at Game Stop that way. They weren’t happy about it.
I once had an incredibly annoying related experience (from the customer’s point of view). I was doing an IP camera installation in a medium-sized town about 5 hours away from home. Lightning struck the building I was working in and killed the Ethernet port on my computer. I went to the local Office Depot for an Ethernet to USB adapter and found nothing on the shelves. I asked an employee and he said “I’ve seen one of those in the back-I’ll get it for you.” He brought back the exact item, all packaged up neatly for retail sale. I took it to the register, where it rang up for $9,999. That seemed a little steep to me and the cashier, so she called over her manager. He told me that piece was for store use only and couldn’t be sold. I asked him under what conditions a store computer could possibly need that piece and he had no answer but still wouldn’t sell it to me. I unsuccessfully tried the other stores in town that might stock such a piece and finally had to give up and come back the next week (Major pain in the ass).
Almost $10,000 for a simple ethernet to USB adapter?!! :eek:
I love this. I got a copy of Les Miserables (10th anniversary concert, and still the best!) for free from my local Woolies, since the scanned price was higher than the shelf tag price.
In fact, fancy features like this aren’t new in computerized cash registers. I worked for a very small family-owned company in the 1990’s that made cash register software. Their product goes back at least as far as 1990, and it was full of configurable features like this. It could have one configurable age limit for tobacco products, and a different configurable age limit for alcohol products.
It also knew the birthdays of the cashiers (if the store manager enters that data), so if you have an under-age cashier signed on and the customer tries to buy cigs or booze, it will tell the cashier to call a manager to do the sale.
Yes, that’s great. But based upon what some posters seem to be saying, even if the customer qualifies to get it free, the business can just “refuse to do business with him”.:dubious:
I guess maybe their registers didn’t have a “do not sell” function so they programmed in a ridiculous price.
Not under the supermarket scanning thing, which does limit the policy to items under $50 so it’s never going to bankrupt them. In general though, yes they can withdraw the item from sale. Seems fair to me.
coloured and bolded text in quote are not OP but my responses
In this country there is the truth and there is the law. the truth is that a corporation can get away with just about anything, because Joe Average does not have a fleet of lawyers to enforce any rights.
As for what ever it was he was babbling about…it depends on how the flyers, advertisements and such were written up. there IS a “truth in advertising” law, which is why all your vitamins say “it has not been proved that vitamin whatever will do anythig whatsoever”. Unless the flyers, commercials, and what not had fine print somewhere that stated “certain titles and products are excluded from this offer” and they completely gave the impression that everything dvd, blu ray and game was included in this sale, then the “truth in advertising” law comes along. I fully suspect there was teeny tiny weensy itsy bitsy print somewhere that said "not all products are part of this offer,"or "only certain products are available
" as part of this offer.
Whoresnet…errrrr.Hughesnet advertised and sold satellite internet service for years claiming “FULL UNLIMITED ACCESS” 24 hours a day at certain speeds guaranteed. It was only after you had paid the exorbitant fee for satellite set up and rental and signed into a 2 year contract that you could access the page on their website that explained their accurately named **FAP **policy. (well, they said it stood for ‘fair access policy’ but face it, it was a fapping of a different kind. B.O.H.I.C.A.R.U.T.A.) This “fair access policy” dictated that you could only download 200 MB of data in a 24 hour period. So, no streaming netflix, no mmporg, hell, if you tended to browse art heavy sites or utube you would basically get shut down for 24 hours. This also meant every time you got a program upgrade (windows, adobe, whatever) you were shut down for 24 hours.
THAT IS NOT UNLIMITED ACCESS, nor is it 24/7. No where, not even in fine print, was this FAP policy mentioned, it could only be read several pages in their website in an area you could only reach after logging in, which you had to have an** account ** and a **contract **to do.
I went to war. It wasn’t easy finding the number for their maryland based home office, (all numbers provided in the normal method have you talking to people in India who “do not understand american law” or “do not know a number where I can talk to the head office in America, one does not exist.”
it did exist, I found it, and basically called them daily raising hell. I told them that this was about as legal as my having a lawyer write up an amendment to their contract that said per their accepting the payment I had made last month, that every time I browsed a web page using their service hey owed me 1,0000 dollars and I stuck that document in a folder and laid it under my monitor. It existed, they could concievably access it, but they would have to break the law (entering my home with out permission, just as I would have had to hack their site illegally to read their Fap Policy.)
A class action lawsuit eventually took place(I did not start it but sure has hell signed up when found out about it) which frankly, is a yank around because everyone who has been screwed by this process basically gets about 50 bucks, after having been stuck into paying out 60 or more bucks a month for two years in the contract, not to mention the near 500 bucks laid out for satellite and modem and installation. (why would anyone do that? because I live in the grids of Outer Redneckia, Cornistan Indiana and there WAS no other provider available at that time.)
IMHO, they should have had to refund half of what was paid in that contract period to each person in the suit. Oh, but that might have put them out of service! newsflash, the sheer word of mouth (which can now be backed up by links to the lawsuit as opposed to something hidden on their site) of their fapping about has reduced their customer base to the point that last I heard there was a chance they might go under or be bought out by a competitor who also has a limitation policy (because the satellites can get overloaded and affect everyone, I get that but wouldn’t have known without being told) but this competitor is UPFRONT about this information and does not charge such crazy ass exorbitant fees
Thank god/allah/buddha/ra/ameretsue/papa legba/texachoatl/Odin/Cerunnnos/Shai-tan/ the Mighty TumbleBug that our phone company finally offered internet out here in the grids and I now can use a service who supports American workers. (so far.) and actually provides unlimited no fapping about high speed service.
Whoresnet now have in teensy weensy tiny print half buried under a graphic that only says that “Hughesnet has a FAP policy.” They STILL claim unlimited 24 hour high speed access and their ads often show people mmporging or streaming movies, but despite that line not explaining that this is all bullshit it is enough to legally cover their ass.
so yeah, in cases of blatant arrogant corporate screwing of the public and you get enough people screaming, you get at least a nod that you were wronged and the corp gets a swat on the wrist and a finger shake.
and yeah, TLDR but I try to put the word out about whorenet/hughesnet as often as possible and thanks to the truth in advertising thing, it does correlate a bit to the OP’s original questions.
I’d rather not have wasps but if anyone has a bunch of preying mantii they want to send I’ll take them.
Oh the answer to this one is obvious. That part was only for sale to the U.S. Military, the same people who spend 900 dollars on hammers, and 300 dollars on toliet seats.
One problem: “There never was a $600 hammer,” said Steven Kelman, public policy professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a former administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. It was, he said, “an accounting artifact.”
Don’t get me wrong, the military often over pays for stuff, but there’s a lot of myth there too. I did see a hammer that NASA paid some $500 for- it was non-sparking Titanium.
Nitpick: mantises or mantes.
But not mantipodes?
We used to hold rummage sales to raise funds for church youth groups. Items often did not have price tags on them. Once, a valuable item was quoted by a staffer as being $5 (the staffer was simply guessing at a fair price). Since I held the money pouch, the staffer called me over to collect the buyer’s money and give change. When I heard the price, I was taken aback. The item was easily $50, and a bargain at that – I now don’t recall what the item was.
The buyer tried crying foul. I could understand their stance, but didn’t agree with it. No money had changed hands yet, so I claimed that no transaction had yet occurred. I insisted on $50. After grumbling a bit, the buyer ponied up the $50.
I think that was fair. Thoughts?
Nope, not if that staffer had authority to set prices.