Online price vs retail store price?

If a retail store has an online presence, and the website does not
indicate that pricing is onine only pricing, is it reasonable to expect
the the retail price in the store is the price advertised online?

Is it legal do advertise one price on the website and then charge
another price in the store if it is not marked as online only pricing?

 

Yes

 

Yes the Radius chemist does.

 

Q: Is it unreasonable to expect people to be reasonable?

A: Yes.

Q: So what?

 

When one goes to buy something one makes an offer to the seller to buy
the goods. The price tag which the seller puts on the goods is nothing more
than an idea of what she would like them to be sold for. If the buyers offer
is too low, the seller will counter offer.

The point is that one makes a contract to buy the goods, if both sides agree
on the price, either at the bricks and mortar place or on line. What the
price is being asked elsewhere and by whom is not relevant.

In this country there is freedom of speech, so sellers can ask what price
they want, and it can change with the weather, and anything else. Hint how
many travel tickets are one price via the Internet and another via the
Travel agent?

Know of a lower price, then go there and buy the goods. Market forces
governs in this case not the legal aspect

 

How many travel agents charge over 100% more if you visit the bricks and
mortar shop?

How many of them also make it clear the online price is an online only
price if they do this?

I would have taken my business elsewhere if it hadn't been almost
lunchtime on a saturday and something i wanted for the weekend or if the
item had of been worth more than a few dollars. As it was they lost the
sale of a NIC or two on that day and any future business they might have
got from me.

 

What stores do you shop in? Outside of flea markets and such, a price is
posted and that's it -- take it or leave.

Nonsense. If the seller has advertised one price in newspaper ads and
circulars but then charges another at point of sale, that's fraud. And that
seems to be the issue that the OP is raising with respect to online ads. So
long as an online ad clearly specifies that a discountred price is only
available online, I see no problem -- such discounts are increasingly common
(and welcome!!). But it's not hard to see how someone who was unfamiliar
with this market could be caught out.

Pricing has nothing to do with freedom of speech. It's just business.

One of the "market forces" at work **is** the law. Without legal protections
for both buyers and sellers, there would be no trade.

 

Errr, so if you were buying something you wouldnt make a lower offer?
Wont work at the supermarket but will in almost any other store - except
the $2 shop I guess.

 

Like where? Antique stores? Second-hand book stores? Other small shops?
Maybe. But most retail businesses use pricing models today that leave no
room for haggling. For the consumer, t's take it or leave it. Consumers are
"soverign", as the textbooks put it, only in so far as there is competition
between sellers. Then, and only then, am I free to seek a better price. If a
store discovers that all of their customers are shopping elsewhere because
their prices are too high, then it may feel compelled to adjust its pricing
model. But this is an impersonal effect of the aggregate, anonymous
"market" -- not a negotiation.

 

In my experience, many clothes shops (for example) allow their floor
staff room to talk turkey between 10% and 20% - at the very least
they'll throw in additional items for 'free'. You only have to ask!

Most people don't bother - presumably they have more money than time -
fair enough I guess, each to his own, but I think it's fun to practise
your negotiation skills!

I suspect you'd be wasting your time in a supermarket though!

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All places like Dick Smiths, Noel Leemings etc will give you at least
10% off any appliance if its not on special. You'll be a retard not to
ask. It only takes a second and you can save a 100 bucks.

 

Completely agree - more money than sense comes to mind, but I do know
a few people who regard it as being 'beneath' them to ask for a 'real'
price.

I would contrast that to my experiences in the UK or US where many
more people are willing to haggle, just a local thing I suppose with
more of a 'free market' / 'trading' culture in those countries. I
suspect if you went to most Asian countries (for example) it would be
even more common, but that's just my guess rather than based on my own
experience.

Interesting nevertheless.

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It's a sucker's deal built into the the pricing model -- to make you think
they're being reasonable and that you've struck a good bargain, when in fact
you've paid exactly the price they budgeted for that item. Car dealers are
renowned for these kind of shennanigans, pretending that they've sold you
something "at cost" -- yeah, right.

 

My good Jewish friend Solly said to me, My boy, when you negoiate, leave
a little bit of jam on the bread.

Now what he was saying is that at the end of the day the seller has to
make a living, so negotiate but know your place and don't be over the
top, if you are over the top at best the dealer shafts you next time or
at worst he goes broke and you are back to the beginning next time you
want to buy

 

Stereo world, harvey norman, some furniture shop I cant recall, the
bakery near home, several small computer shops have all bargained with
me recently.

Also there was a mechanic, and a builder, but those are services so you
expect that to happen.

If you dont come up with a counter offer, you are getting taken for a ride.

 

Which is why the modern business model has made haggling over prices
obsolete. From the point of view of both buyer and seller, it's simply too
costly.

 

Small shops, as I said, are an exception. It's all a bit of a game with
them, and frankly I can't be bothered.

My time is valuable, and I don't waste it haggling. Internet reserarch gives
me the price I know is competive -- either a store posts that price (or
lower) or I move on to someone else. For just that reason, most of my
non-food shopping.nowadays is done online.

 

Exactly. So people are suckers not to ask for a "discount". Alan is
correct though, I know quite a few people who refuse to ask for one as
they think it's cheap. Idiots.

 

LOL!! Mate, they all haggle! Actually, the store manager will tell their
salespeople that they can take 10% (or whatever fixed rate the manager
tells them) off the price if they think it will result in a sale. Of
course, this will only work on items not on sale.

Go to a place like Bond and Bond, find a fridge for a grand that's not
on special, and I guarantee you that the salesperson will knock off a
100 bucks. Quite amazing that people don't know this.

 

And that's the attitude I'm talking about. Is your time worth $100 bucks
for 20 seconds work? Thats all it takes.

I bought a washing machine recently from Harvey Norman for $629. Marked
price was over $700. Literally took me one question to get that deal.
That is "And what discount can you give me on that price there?"

That's all you need to ask in most cases.