Delivery charges.

[Bewlay Bros]

Can a shop advertise an item say for �100 on a ticket. Then charge, say, �20 delivery but WITH NO option for self collection??

We are not talking ebay, but a high street furntiture chain.

[jake-the-peg]

Don't see why not.

After all they can put �100 on the ticket price and then say sorry there's a mistake it's actually �200 when you take it to the till.

A price ticket is simply an invitatation to you as a customer to offer to buy an item at that price.

Now if they were to spring the mandatory delivery charge on you after you'd paid that might be different but it doesn't sound like that was the case

[bednobs]

i dont see why not. They might have to goods in a storage warehouse they dont want the general public wandering around

[Fay Mousse]

Yes they can.

But I wouldn't deal with them.

[spaced]

actually jake, I was always under the impression that if a POS states for example an item is �9.99, and when it goes through the till it says �19.99, or anything else, the shop have to honour the point of sale.

It has happened to me before and the shop have apologised and honoured the error

[Pippa68]

Not neccessarily so, spaced.

A store may honour the sale at advertised price but they don't have to ~ it depends on the management.

[jake-the-peg]

I'm afraid spaced that's a common misaprehension.

A number of stores do have that as a policy but they're not obliged to.

As I say technically the ticket price is an invitation to you to make them an offer to buy the goods at that price. It's not a contract in itself

[fredpuli47]

Yes they can.It's open to you to refuse their terms.If they offered the goods at �120 with free delivery it would come to the same but they think their way gets more business.They might have a policy of not allowing self collection because of the risks of someone being injured or injuring someone else, or damaging property when doing it, with consequent litigation.It may be, too, that their insurers have inserted a term in their policy which denies them this practice.

The price ticket or advertised price is not an offer, as has been explained above. It's what lawyers call 'an invitation to treat' not a binding offer. .It can be changed or withdrawn.A mistaken price does not bind the vendor who appears to be offering it: you can't insist on it.

[gina32]

argos are a prime example you can go into store and buy something and do not the the choice to collect but it has to be delivered at a cost of about a fiver