OT: Are there more rogues around these days?

[Man at B&Q]

Not ince it's been rung into the till (which it has in this case) is my understanding.

MBQ

[Man at B&Q]

The contract is made when the price is agreed, which is usually before any payment is made. I'm no longer sure whether simply putting the item through the till constitues the retailer agreeing the price.

Once upon a time, items would be individually priced and the retailer would have a chance to spot the error before putting it through the till. These days they would need to be able to read the barcode.

MBQ

[Huge]

But wrong.

[Muddymike]

No, even if an item has a price label attached to it, if its wrong you are not legally entitled to buy it at that price. The retailer can refuse to sell it to you at the till.

Mike

[djornsk]

I don't know the legal position on this but my wife has always believed that stores have to sell at the marked price and has always succeded in getting her way. I'm sure she is not unique in this and whilst I strongly suspect that you are correct in law it does seem that the myth is being perpetuated by retailers.

j

[Jo Stein]

Den 01.05.2012 15:48, skrev The Natural Philosopher:

Start using your head and come up with some help for "Nospam" . I would do some search on that phone number and try to find someone relatet to the thief. Google Advanced searh is your friend and you can always find something.

I found a fellow in Australia when searcing for you, but I knew that the match was less than perfect.

If I managed to find the phone of someone related to a tief, I would start to send long sms's to that phone telling about the crime.

After a week or two the money would arrive.

[Tim Watts]

Ultimately, as a mis-pricing is the store's c*ck up, losing a few quid on one sale to keep a customer (and possibly their gossiping friends) happy is a small and wise hit to take.

Maybe they do not have to - but they would be stupid not to go with the customer...

Now, if it was a HiFi shop selling 500 quid items and one was priced 200 below the correct value, that would be a little different...

[Jo Stein]

Den 01.05.2012 15:48, skrev The Natural Philosopher:

I had to correct an spelling error!

Start using your head and come up with some help for "Nospam" . I would do some search on that phone number and try to find someone relatet to the thief. Google Advanced searh is your friend and you can always find something.

I found a fellow in Australia when searcing for you, but I knew that the match was less than perfect.

If I managed to find the phone of someone related to a thief, I would start to send long sms's to that phone telling about the crime.

After a week or two the money would arrive.

[Nospam]

I've got his eBay id, his mobile number, the name and address on his eBay account, and the email address that he gave to eBay ... it's not the money that bothers me, it's the fact that anybody could be so petty as to break trust and rip someone off for a tenner. That's why I live in hope that it's an error rather than theft.

[Nightjar]

On 01/05/2012 11:06, Tim Streater wrote: ...

Greengrocers everywhere seem to be prone to short changing and other tricks. In a local market, now closed, one greengrocery stall holder was known to the locals as weigh thumb.

Colin Bignell

[John Williamson]

As he would have been dropping the coins into my open palm, he'd have been shown the shortage. Then again, I've been known to mention being given too much change.

[Tim Streater]

Well I saw him do it but was more amused than anything else.

[Bob Eager]

Talking of rogues...my 91 year old mother-in-law just got a call from some cheerful woman who said "We haven't seen you for a while - we'll come and visit". The company "does everything around the home, and specialises in keeping you mobile". Of course, she has no recollection of ever dealing with them and she still has the majority of her marbles. We reckon some council bod is selling details on the side.

The company is: Simplify Leicester

1 STATION LANE, OLD DALBY MELTON MOWBRAY LE14 3ND

Looks like a small block of rented offices - they appear to have moved at least twice in the last year, and the company only came into existence in late 2010.

Couldn't be more suspect really! Anyone know that area?

[Andy Burns]

I trundle past on the A46 a couple of times per week, don't mind a miles or two detour ...

[Bob Eager]

Don't make a big thing of it, unless there's more to see than on Streetview. I think we're going to try to get someone involved with this if they try to visit, but unfortunately we're about 120 miles' drive away from her (we're in Kent, she's in Suffolk).

[Andy Burns]

I'm not going to start punching peoples lights out!

AFAICR there's not much there other than the old railway proving ground where they did the nuclear flask test.

[Bob Eager]

I just meant don't do it if not convenient...!

I was trying to work out what was there. I guess number 1 id the building by the main road, with the sign that says 'Offices'. Hardly a major company if so.

[Andy Burns]

I wondered if the old station master's house might be No. 1 Station Rd.

[The Medway Handyman]

Since we used to go there a lot, SWMBO gets regular e mails from Center Parcs.

She checked out the offers once & there was a 4 day break for £99 - so she immediately booked it online & got a confirmation by return.

When she told me, I asked her to book another one, when she got back online half an hour later it had changed to £99 'off'.

They honoured it though.

[MM]

I had a lengthy argument with the manager at Aldi a couple of years ago, because he kicked up a fuss about charging me the till price when the label price was lower. I wrote to Aldi to complain. The manager now works at Lidl.

MM