[P1] Price Laws - was iBook Sleeves

[Joost van de Griek]

On 2003-11-23 09:52, Tom Burke wrote:

> There's a law in the UK (possibly throughout the EU now) that says that
> if the price on an item is wrong, the retailer either has to sell it at
> that price, or withdraw it from sale and not sell it at all (presumably
> so they could re-label the items). What they're not allowed to do is
> charge a higher price at the till.

We have such a law in the Netherlands, too. IIRC, the retailer is exempt if
the quoted price is "obviously a mistake", i.e. a EUR 1000.00 iBook
mistakenly labeled at EUR 10.00...

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