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On Wednesday night I popped into my local electrical store (Tower) and liked the look of a Samsung PS42EHDX which was £799 .

After doing a bit of home work I decided to go and buy it today :D
Didn`t know before hand that they were doing a 10% off everything day today .... but the price of the TV had gone up to £889 .....??????? :/
I said to sales assistant that it was only £799 on Wednesday he replied with perhaps its gone up so as to cover are selves !!!!! WTF .

They`re having 10% day and they`ve raised the prices by over 10%.

My question is can they do this or is it against trading standards ????

Thanks


Coops

Cheeky sods! :o

In any case, wait for it to drop again, then go to John Lewis: get proper service, a price-match and 5 year guarantee. :D




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My question is can they do this or is it against trading standards ????Of course they can - they can charge anything they like......It`s called an `invitation to treat`.
Very cheeky though. :(

Ste

This item was edited on Monday, 9th April 2007, 21:50

This is apposite.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/supermarkets/story/0,,2026782,00.html#article_continue

Samsung tellys not growing on trees and all :o

isn`t there something in trading standards that states for something to in a "sale" it has to cheaper than it had been 30 days before ? or something along those lines.

thos, that said, they aren`t saying they are having a sale, just x% off ? still cheeky a fcuk tho :/

Just took this from the trading standards website !

If the seller is in business (rather than a private seller), he may have committed a criminal offence if he:

sells goods which are unsafe;
has given a false description to the goods i.e. a car sold with incorrect mileage (clocked car);
gives a false description to the services he is providing e.g. falsely claiming to be a member of a trade association;
advertises a misleading price;
displays a sign which states `No Refunds`.
If you feel that any of the above could apply, you should report the matter to your local Trading Standards Service before you return to the trader.

I would say that it was misleading price as they claim to be 10% cheaper then before but they`re 10-11% more expensive !

Any how I won`t use again !!!

Thanks for the input folks ! :D

Coops

They are quite within their rights im afraid, they can charge this no problem as previous poster stated "invitation to treat" Even if they had it at £50 they could refuse u buying it because of this, basically they advertise a price u offer them the money and they accept or decline...obviously they accept generally but if it was mispriced they have reserved the right to refuse ur offer.

If I was in your position, I`d knock up a quick email to head office expressing your displeasure at the misleading offer. You never know, they might reply. :D Always worth a try.

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if it was mispriced they have reserved the right to refuse ur offer.Possibly, but if the customer sticks to his/her guns it can be tricky to refuse the sale.

There was a very famous case many years ago when DVD players were just starting out. Tesco were selling the Wharfdale 750 for £179. One particular store, for some reason, either had an errant decimal point, or had a gap, so it looked like £1 79. Either way, a customer told the store that they were advertising it for just shy of two quid, and if he didn`t get it for that price, then he`d report them to trading standards (he`d taken a pic). They relented, and he walked away with a DVD player for £1.79 and one whole clubcard point.


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Larger stores can afford to honour it sometimes to save them hassle and bad publicity but they have done nothing wrong which is what the poster asked.

Dont cost anything to try tho......