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Brought to you by my discovery that some people think that “the customer is always right” isn’t the slogan of a long-dead department store, but rather it’s an actual call the cops law.

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[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Otherwise anyone can just run around with a 10/20/50% off sticker and force any store to sell them whatever they want for much cheaper.

Or they can just steal it, it's just as legal. In my experience this is law in a lot of the EU, including Germany and a bunch of Eastern European places.

In my case, it wasn't a misplaced 90% off sticker, it was just that the normal price tag on the shelf was printed with one zero less. It was also a "premium" item at the time, so the price wasn't that much off, just cheap. It wasn't just a bunch of shrimp, it was ready made, cleaned, arranged into a neat circle with dipping sauces in the middle.

On the other hand, I had a thing where Microsoft was introducing Skype to a country where the local currency was around 200:1 to the dollar. They messed up the currency conversion, and it defaulted back to 1:1, giving everyone a 99.5% discount on consumer electronics. It was obviously not honoured, and the law was clear, so no lawsuits either.

this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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