Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Is a company legaly obligated to sell their products at advertised prices ?

Rooms to Go advertised a sale price on a particular bedroom suit with a coupon. ( Black Friday Sales Event )When I tried to purchased the bedroom suite they refused to sell it as they had advertised and tried to sell it for $2,000.00 above their advertised price. This seems like false advertising and the "Bait %26amp; Switch" tactic to me. Is this legal?Is a company legaly obligated to sell their products at advertised prices ?
Bait and switch is when they advertise something really cheap to "bait" you in and when you come in to look at it, you find it is a piece of junk. So you "switch" to something more expensive. That is NOT the situation here.



Here you have a particular product advertised at a particular price. They are required by law to sell it at that price unless:



1. They sold all of the items at the price advertised and they are sold out. In that case, no product, no sale.



2. The price is clearly wrong due to a mistake in the ad. For example, if they advertised an eight piece of furniture for $209.59. There is no way anyone can sell new furniture at that price. However, if the price was $2095.90 then it would be a reasonable price. In that case, it was a decimal mistake and easily explained.

Or if a number got left off on the add. For example, if the real price was $2209.05 and the first two got left off. The way you can catch them on this is the NEXT time the ad comes out, it should be corrected now that you pointed it out to them. If they fail to correct the error then they are allowing an error to pass and you got them.








Well that is false advertising and you wanted you could make them give it to you for that price. But it may be a big pain. Also there has been many cases where if the price is obviously wrong you can not get it for the price. I watched a case were a guy went into a store for a camera for $1. The store said it was a mistake. The awarded the case to the store because it was unreasonable to believe they were selling it for $1.Is a company legaly obligated to sell their products at advertised prices ?
No it is not legal go back with the add if they refuse tell them you will call a cop get a report and call the states atty office.
Ad add is an implied contract. "If you give me $X, I'll give you this particular bedroom suite."

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