Page 1 of Cheap Diesel in Newport, South Wales (if your cheeky!)

Just drove past the Texaco garage by the High Cross roundabout in Newport, South Wales where the big board thing was displaying Diesel at 9.59p instead of 95.9p. My car is petrol so ignored it but someone with a bit of cheek and up for a battle may get it for the price displayed! Long shot I suppose but worth it if it comes off

What makes you think they would sell it to you at that price?

Ste

When you get to the pump the correct price would be displayed on the lcd screen. You would not have a leg to stand on.

Dr 42%er


Suck my hairless balls


It`s not easy being different. It`s not easy being cool....but somehow I manage....

Yes - many people are under the misapprehension that an advertised price is binding on the seller. It is not. You need to realise that in law an advertised price is merely "an invitation to treat."

For a contract of sale to be valid you need offer and acceptance.

It is you, the buyer, who ALWAYS makes the offer; and the seller ACCEPTS your offer.

Thus, here it is YOU who offers to buy at 9.59p per litre and the petrol station accepts or declines your offer, not the other way around. ;)

But they are advertising the price of 9.59p to passers by and therefore inticing you to stop off and buy. I believe the boot falls on the other foot if you are drawn into a store or a shop from the outside, rather than something being priced wrong inside. Either way, I am sure people will argue for days about this and meanwhile the world is moving on and it`s not really proving anything.

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by the High Cross roundabout in Newport
Just through the lanes from me actually...

Dang, just filled up in Sainsburys..

Neil.

Think the comment about outside n inside is right.
I know there is a "law of supposition" or something that you are entitled to receive that which you thought you were to receive at the price you saw if it`s reasonable to do so or summat.

Happened in one of my stores with f/freezers, new salesperson, two similar F/F`s one with, one without drinks dispenser. With = £80 more.
New guy sold three without realising the ticket was for the other model (which was very very clear and I`m still to this day not 100% sure the first "buyer" didn`t switch tickets because she was the most vocal) but because he had mentioned the drinks dispenser on the unit to all three we had to honour the pricing. The mistake was he said it had a dispenser even though it was clearly a different model and we sent the customers the right model they bought.

If you didn`t spot the price on the pump when dispensing I think you would have a legal claim to either get the fuel at the advertised price or have them remove it from the car. Risky risky risky one to take on though.....

Jimbo : oÞ

"Making Teenagers depressed is like shooting fish inna barrel"

As the board with the price on is an advert could the petrol station not cover it`s self under the emissions (sp) and errors act?

Dr 42%er


Suck my hairless balls


It`s not easy being different. It`s not easy being cool....but somehow I manage....

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someone with a bit of cheek and up for a battle may get it for the price displayed! Long shot I suppose but worth it if it comes off


I never said it was a definite did I. It was always a long shot but like I said, if it worked then whoever did would be quids in

With ra2000 on this. I studied corporate law for 1.5 hrs over a lunch time once :B , funny thing was that this was the first thing that was brought up. Most of the "consumer lawyers" amongst us were convinced that you paid the price displayed and were shocked to find this wasn't so, as it was just "an invite to treat".
Jimbo does have a point, but is risky as he says, and I think that although it may be displayed on big sign for 10p a litre, (nearly) everyone will know that it's absurdly cheap, and that unless there was a "sale" sign displayed with it, that you just wouldn't get away with it

LB2

This item was edited on Sunday, 13th May 2007, 18:41