Price of goods...

[Jack]

Ok, so I'm buying a new funstick (Logitech Extreme 3D pro) to play some quality old flight sims of mine. F-18 Korea and TIE fighter to name a couple :d

PC World site has said funstick at £39.99 in their listings. Humph, expensive. I click on it to view product details, and it comes up as £25.99 - thats better. I search elsewhere and it seems that £25.99 is actually pretty competetive, so I go back to PCW to purchase.

However, now when I click on the funstick it comes up as £39.99 in product details. I go back through my history and see my old PCW session with the stick at £25.99 - it allows me to add this item to my cart, complete the Collect@Store, all at £25.99. Same product ID code as the £39.99 version; its the same item, just the price has differed for some reason.

My question is, as I've not yet paid for the item - I'll pay when I pick it up - can they try to charge me the £39.99? I've taken a screen shot of the order confirmation page with the £25.99 price (as yet I've not had email confirmation, and can't print as I have no printer on this PC).

I'm sure they can't charge me extra, even if their website has boned something up, as surely they've advertised the item at £25.99 and a sale has been agreed? Just want to make sure before I go in there with my ranty hat on...

[draper]

hmmmm

as always understood it - if a item you are buying is £100 retail price but the shop label it wrong at £10 then they have to sell it you at £10 HOWEVER they arent actually obliged to sell you anything and can refuse the sale. my dad tried it in curry's once for a digital camera that had a price tag of £1.49 instead of £149

[L14MNP]

cart
We say basket in this country, sir. :) (for the purpose of online shopping anyway...)

Paper or plastic? lol

[brainsnova]

i get £25.99 on my pc :D

[Jack]

Hmm. Maybe they reduced the price to £25.99 and firefox is bringing up cached pages of old where the price was £39.99. Its possible I guess, my connection really is that sh!t (thankyou ADLS24 and BT, fukktards the both of you :))

[Annie]

They can refuse you sale, But if you have already paid for it then they cant as once you have made a transaction its a binding contract between you & the shop. Did you know that a shop can refuse payment of pennys as money isnt classed a legel tender until it reaches £5. You find out lots of silly facts when you run a shop lol

[L14MNP]

Here's a novel idea. Visit the shop with a screenshot print out?

[Jack]

Annie, yeah, there was a program on TV a while back where they pointed that out.


Here's a novel idea. Visit the shop with a screenshot print out?
I did take a screenshot just in case :p

[brainsnova]

http://i517.photobucket.com/albums/u331/Brain_missing/RJ.jpg

[L14MNP]

:) I assume PCW is miles away and it's easier to have it delivered?

I much prefer to buy things IRL if possible, but that's me and I'm old.

[Annie]

Annie, yeah, there was a program on TV a while back where they pointed that out.

Was there..

Saying that most large shops would prob give it to you for the price they have listed it for as they wouldnt want you making a fuss in the shop. Just make some crap up like your always shopping there & over xmas have spent afew hundreds. They dont like to lose customers.

[Jack]

:) I assume PCW is miles away and it's easier to have it delivered?

I much prefer to buy things IRL if possible, but that's me and I'm old.
I wish PCW did a collect@store service :(

[blue_peg_16v]

dont know about fun stick but im liking il2 sturmovic birds of prey on ps3 at mo

isnt there one in yob ville

scrub that im getting confused poole isnt it

[Jack]

Yes. There's one about 10 mins from my house. Hence doing the

add this item to my cart, complete the Collect@Store
...instead of buying it a few pennies cheaper online but having to pay postage :p

[Spudly]

Did you know that a shop can refuse payment of pennys as money isnt classed a legel tender until it reaches £5.



Who the fudge told you that:eek:

[Jack]

LOL typo methinks lol

She means OVER £5

[edit] Actually, yeah, that doesn't make sense lol You can refuse payment of pennies for amounts over £5, but as for any coin being "not legal tender" for amounts under £5? I call BS lol

[blue_peg_16v]

it is true spud but most would take it its money still i wouldnt turn it away

id be happy to appect £1million in pennies lol

and yup over £5

[mowgli]

LOL typo methinks lol

She means OVER £5

i know a bloke who had a protest with the council & paid his council tax in 1p cons. he tipped a wheelbarrow full of them in the foyer at the town hall

[Spudly]

If its got the queens head on it and is a minted coin then its legal tender, no matter the amount or domination, i had this many a time when i worked in a supermarket when younger!

[mowgli]

shops can legally refuse to accept large value notes for low value transactions.. its a money laundering thing

[blue_peg_16v]

have you ever tryed to deposit a sizable amount of cash in the bank i sold a car a few years back for 6k and was like the spanish inquizition trying to put the cash in the bank

mind thered never been that much in there and hasnt been since lol

[Spudly]

shops can legally refuse to accept large value notes for low value transactions.. its a money laundering thing


That one i do know about and its cash payments over a few £k, but as Jack has just shown me on msn things must have changed in the last few years since i worked in a shop:confused:

[mowgli]

I know a local scrap dealer who had saved up cash to buy a brand new 911 turbo... he went to do the deal & took a case of £20's, and they wouldn't do the deal. so he sorted out a finance package & then kept popping to the bank to pay money into the finance company.....

[Jack]

Just looked it up :tard:

1p/2p is legal tender up to the value of 20 pence. Its 10p coins that are legal tender up to £5.


i know a bloke who had a protest with the council & paid his council tax in 1p cons. he tipped a wheelbarrow full of them in the foyer at the town hall
Council have the right to refuse payment of that then, assuming the amount was over 20p lol

Its been this way for a loooong time. Bronze (1/2p) legal up to 20p; Silver 10p up to £5; Silver over 10p up to £10; Gold (and paper money) is legal tender to any amount.

Funny thing is, the Queen can change the denominations, design, weight, basically anything about the coins that she damned well likes.

[edit] tbh, if I was paying for anything over a few hundred quid, I'd pay (or demand payment by)a banker's cheque. I'm not surprised the scrap dealer was refused, I'd not want to sell to a guy who was offering a mountain of notes!

[Spudly]

My mate went with his mate to pick up a Bently continental GT, for his mates dad (his mate owns one of the biggest recovery businesses in our area, Andrew Brooks) and they went to pay cash at the dealership and they couldnt accept it, they had to go to a bank, deposit the monies and pay it on a card:eek:

[mowgli]

/\/\ thats why he simply walked in & tipped it up, with a hearty 'there's your effing money' and left... they had no chance to refuse it on the spot, and he wasn't going to help clear it up

[Jack]

/\/\ thats why he simply walked in & tipped it up, with a hearty 'there's your effing money' and left... they had no chance to refuse it on the spot, and he wasn't going to help clear it up
Into the bank? :wtf: If I worked in there I'd pocket at least half the cash lol

[Annie]

your confusing me now lol,

http://everything2.com/title/Legal+tender

1p and 2p coins are legal tender up to the value of 20p;
5p and 10p coins are legal tender up to the value of £5;
20p and 50p coins are legal tender up to the value of £10

Also I worked for barclays when I left college, When you pay money into your account anything over £5k & dont give a reason for having the money then your logged on the system as suspicious & then if you do it again within a certain time its investigated lol, Dont know if they still do this as it was afew years ago.

[mowgli]

Into the bank? :wtf: If I worked in there I'd pocket at least half the cash lol

no, the foyer at the town hall.. funnily enough, there was a local press photographer who just happened to be there with his lens cap off