If it was a physical shop then the Law states that the retailer must accept the displayed price when the goods are presented at the till even if it was a mistake.

It would be worth finding out where you stand with online sales.

regards Martin

Got to grab these deals if they are there, had a few go south over the years, "Item Damaged" or "the dog ate it " does happen from time to time and money returned

Got 2 nice 50% jobs this week so far

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Irrespective of the legalities, if this is what's happened I'd still say it's morally sharp practice to pocket the information from a customer and then make them pay the higher price.

You live and learn, indeed !

Hi, when something is marked below the current price that it should be sold for, they only have to sell it to you if they wish to at checkout time, but if you don't accept the current price, they can just refuse to sell it to you. I had this happen to me in Matalan once, where a coat had a ticket price on a rack of them which was about £10.00 lower than it should have been. I challenged the price with the supervisor, and she argued that someone had probably put it back onto the wrong rack, so I said, "They did that to the whole rack then" as the coats were all the same type. I had to show her where the rack was, and she promptly removed the price ticket in a flash, to which I said, "well your supposed to sell it to me at the price I saw it at" she said, "No! we don't have to sell it to you at all if we don't wish too" So I replied, "Well you do have to sell it to me at the price I saw it at, or I won't buy it" To be fair to her though, she recognised the shops mistake and said that she would honour the incorrect price. I got a very good bargain that day.

Mark, it's easy in hindsight, but yes, you should have bought it at the lower price before they noticed.

Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 22/11/2022 18:50:26

You may have dodged a bullet. Some of those aftermarket imitation Myford vertical slides are not as well made as the the originals. I would buy a good used secondhand Myford one off ebay. Most have never seen much work and even come in the original box. Also, if you are not going to do specialised gear cutting with a dividing head, get the fixed slide, not the swivelling. The fixed slide is much more rigid for general milling work .

OK, but I've been using a Myford double-swivel slide for more than 20 years now, first on a Myford Speed 10 and now on a Warco WM250V. I've only found any rigidity issues if I got greedy with depth of cut when flycutting steel, and they were more with narrow crosslide than with the swivels themselves.

I've found the swivel very useful for all sorts of purposes.

There's a reason they don't see much use! It's not that the things are totally useless, more that they have low limits. The advantage is they allow a minimal amount of milling to be done on a lathe. The disadvantage is low capacity, travel and rigidity, which causes most people to get fed up with them rather quickly.

Real milling machines are far more capable and much easier to set up and use. Everything about them is better apart from the cost and space they need!

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… and the fact that it’s more difficult to do turning and milling in one set-up on a milling machine.

MichaelG.

Not sure about this one. I thinikit depends on the circumstances. If for instance the price of a can of soup on the shelf at a supermarket says £1.50 and then the automated till system charges you £1.75 this would be misleading or unfair trading. Note that it is a legal requirement for a retaller to display the price on the item or next to it e.g on shelf. Not doing so is unfair trading. However if you have not paid or the item they don't have to sell it to you at the shelf price. If you paid and then realised they either have to refund the difference and you keep the item, or the total paid and they get the item back. I either case you could still report them for unfair trading. Supermarkets have been fined for this when they do it a lot. Some chains have started using electronic tags on the shelves so the price is updated by the same system as the tills.