lack of price advertisment legal?

[Premchand1976]

I saw celery at $6/bundle. The bundle comprised of three thin sprangs......chive was $6 for Divali....I asked the seller if paramin had flood too ???? He laughed. I didn't buy....

[Slartibartfast]

What aboit making it illegal on tuner.

Fedup seeing those posts with no pics and a "PM for price" note taking up space.

If you have no pics and no price i not even wasting my time.

This does get me real mad....it had powersellers posting pages of goods with no prices...fb ads the same thing...oh yuh hada call for pricing

Dawwwwwwwg!!!! Like ordinary tuners I understand. Internet accesible to everybody so I expect a few chupidees to find their way online. But if you do that as a powerseller or a FB business i immediately lock you off.

Exception being if it's for custom works.

[redmanjp]

not putting a price on an item for sale isn't illegal, the idea being you ask how much for it & the vendor will disclose. & when they do you then decide if it's worth that price to you & buy it or leave it
but it should be illegal, & something needs to be done about that bs. because a lot of things some of these vendors sell like that they overcharge you & put you on the spot same time, technically coercing the weaker willed to buy for fear of being seen as frugal/cheap
Bodi selling for $5/lb everywhere & a bundle is about 1lb, but you stop by a vendor with no prices & when you pick up the one you want he tells you that he sells a bundle for $8. Now it's entirely up to you, drop it & buy elsewhere, or pay what he wants because you ain't wanna go anywhere else to look for a better price/quality for the premium


it's a free market, yes, but some vendors not content with reasonable profits & it's these that need reminding you don't have to get that there, or from them & it have alternatives to sub the items in question. quick example
Wifey wanted some palms the other day, stopped by a plant shop & saw some, with no prices. When she ask the lady & I hear that madwoman say $40 for one palm all I coulda do say was "f--k dat, she hadda be mad", grab d wife & start to push one time. less than a minute later, price drop to $15 each from that $40, up $5 from my sole counter offer of $10 each.


short story shorter, is their product, & your money, if you don't buy it, someone else might, but if nobody else does it'll rot on their hands & just before that it will go for cost. You could easier find someone willing to negotiate for your money than they could find someone willin to over pay for their produce

they used to make public the average market price of these things via tv, newspaper, etc. -do they still do that?

they should probably have a website as well.

[maj. tom]

If there's no price it's not for sale. So don't even bother.

[teems1]

If I recall correctly, a pricetag is just an invitation to bid.

If you see a pricetag on an item, you can now ask the shop owner that you want to bid on said item at the price shown. He can accept or not.

This helps in cases where items are tagged accidentally with incorrect price stickers.

Basically if you walk into COURTS and see a new 55" flat screen tv for $10, that doesn't automatically mean that you can get it for that price.

[maj. tom]

Walmart and... well most honorable businesses do give the price if it's advertised... Even if they did make a mistake. And it also happened to me once at Massy. They made the mistake on the shelf pricing and I got the item for that advertised price. The cashier scanned the correct price, I asked for the manager, they double checked and that was that. No further argument. Amazon does it too if their bots made a mistake.

So what you're saying there is a bs dishonorable practice by whoever doing that sort of business. And anyone who continues to buy is just encouraging the bs further.

[screwbash]

Walmart and... well most honorable businesses do give the price if it's advertised... Even if they did make a mistake. And it also happened to me once at Massy. They made the mistake on the shelf pricing and I got the item for that advertised price. The cashier scanned the correct price, I asked for the manager, they double checked and that was that. No further argument. Amazon does it too if their bots made a mistake.

So what you're saying there is a bs dishonorable practice by whoever doing that sort of business. And anyone who continues to buy is just encouraging the bs further.

i once got a whole chicken at xtra foods for $0.15. it was a mistake and the cashier didnt even notice. i always look for a repeat since but no luck.

[paid_influencer]

Walmart and... well most honorable businesses do give the price if it's advertised... Even if they did make a mistake. And it also happened to me once at Massy. They made the mistake on the shelf pricing and I got the item for that advertised price. The cashier scanned the correct price, I asked for the manager, they double checked and that was that. No further argument. Amazon does it too if their bots made a mistake.

So what you're saying there is a bs dishonorable practice by whoever doing that sort of business. And anyone who continues to buy is just encouraging the bs further.

fyi, amazon, walmart, etc., regularly have legitimate price mistakes (eg $10 instead of $100). they cancel and refund the sale before they ship. they do not "honor" the obviously incorrect price.

[Kalisnakov]

its an injun ting..... you know how much time I have proven this concept …. all those highway vendors, its one price for their people and from the time a fair skinned person jump out a big SUV is 50% more OR all of a sudden the $4 ah pound ones done and is only $6 ah pound ones available... fr1gg1ng thieves.

Like in Tobago?

[teems1]

Walmart and... well most honorable businesses do give the price if it's advertised... Even if they did make a mistake. And it also happened to me once at Massy. They made the mistake on the shelf pricing and I got the item for that advertised price. The cashier scanned the correct price, I asked for the manager, they double checked and that was that. No further argument. Amazon does it too if their bots made a mistake.

So what you're saying there is a bs dishonorable practice by whoever doing that sort of business. And anyone who continues to buy is just encouraging the bs further.

I'm just remembering my business law class and the case involved an incorrect price on a tag.

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

I does always ask the price before I even pick it up. Why would you go to buy something with $10 in your name and pick it up and carry it to cash when no price has even been advertised?

If you want price to be displayed then you must go shop at a grocery like Massy.

[screwbash]

its an injun ting..... you know how much time I have proven this concept …. all those highway vendors, its one price for their people and from the time a fair skinned person jump out a big SUV is 50% more OR all of a sudden the $4 ah pound ones done and is only $6 ah pound ones available... fr1gg1ng thieves.

i stop to buy a lil 2 pong ah aloo yesterday no price on display normal ting, the man in front ah me cashing aloo too an ah hear sammy tell he $3 ah pong, and with me he tell me $4 ah pong. i make some noise sammy go forking tell me dat the man buy plenty so he give him at $3. WTMC man , who ah cud call tuh shut dong this place ?

[RBphoto]

Holy threadbump batman!!!

[Ben_spanna]

Breds, it has ALWAYS been a different price for any person who driving a SUV and speaks the queen English as apposed to the common gardner who taking tie tongue and pulling up in a broken down pickup.
IT was absolutely disgusting the level of discrimination at Bamboo USed car parts areas many years ago...… cheap prices for people they know and 5 times the price if you looking like you can afford a new car.

[pugboy]

Boy the other day I stop to buy crab by the vendors near Caroni roundabout
One quote $90 a bunch
A next one quote $120 for same size

[Dizzy28]

Boy the other day I stop to buy crab by the vendors near Caroni roundabout
One quote $90 a bunch
A next one quote $120 for same size

The one on the northern side of Freeman Road's corner just before exiting onto the SMR usually offers the best prices.

Me I personally give up on local crabs as I find the cost to purchase and the work involved after cooking not worth the payout.

[hydroep]

Breds, it has ALWAYS been a different price for any person who driving a SUV and speaks the queen English as apposed to the common gardner who taking tie tongue and pulling up in a broken down pickup.
IT was absolutely disgusting the level of discrimination at Bamboo USed car parts areas many years ago...… cheap prices for people they know and 5 times the price if you looking like you can afford a new car.

This, buh you could play the game too.

Doh shave, throw on some home clothes, pull up in yuh old junker and put on yuh best rural trini accent when negotiating.

But you would be surprised how hard that is for a certain "tun-up-their-eye" wannabe class of Trinis which makes them easy targets...

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Boy the other day I stop to buy crab by the vendors near Caroni roundabout
One quote $90 a bunch
A next one quote $120 for same size

Crab running mad mad in mayaro and allyuh letting men buss yuh head...hail meh...walk with ah pigtail bucket and we pumping

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Breds, it has ALWAYS been a different price for any person who driving a SUV and speaks the queen English as apposed to the common gardner who taking tie tongue and pulling up in a broken down pickup.
IT was absolutely disgusting the level of discrimination at Bamboo USed car parts areas many years ago...… cheap prices for people they know and 5 times the price if you looking like you can afford a new car.

This, buh you could play the game too.

Doh shave, throw on some home clothes, pull up in yuh old junker and put on yuh best rural trini accent when negotiating.

But you would be surprised how hard that is for a certain "tun-up-their-eye" wannabe class of Trinis which makes them easy targets...

My attire for market on saturday mornings : ole sneakers, t shirt with all kinda paint/grease stains...short pants the same way...

[DTAC]

Try asking for something with an English accent!!!

[88sins]

Boy the other day I stop to buy crab by the vendors near Caroni roundabout
One quote $90 a bunch
A next one quote $120 for same size

Crab running mad mad in mayaro and allyuh letting men buss yuh head...hail meh...walk with ah pigtail bucket and we pumping

dis sounding like a plan. i in dat, could bring some cold beers fuh d cool down afterward