You see a product that's marked wrong

[Lamb]

Let's say you're at a grocery store and you're looking through their fancy cheeses and see a block of some cheese that normally would be priced at $5 or so and it's only marked at $0.01.

Would you buy it or would you feel compelled to turn it in as being marked incorrectly?

 

[vince284]

Let's say you're at a grocery store and you're looking through their fancy cheeses and see a block of some cheese that normally would be priced at $5 or so and it's only marked at $0.01.

Would you buy it or would you feel compelled to turn it in as being marked incorrectly?

I bring it to the cheesemonger's attention, especially if I am going to purchase the cheese myself. I don't take it to the cashier, because I don't want to hold anyone else up inline for price checking. Or the store manager, I don't want to get anyone in trouble for a mistake.

 

[Lamb]

I bring it to the cheesemonger's attention, especially if I am going to purchase the cheese myself. I don't take it to the cashier, because I don't want to hold anyone else up inline for price checking. Or the store manager, I don't want to get anyone in trouble for a mistake.

That's exactly what I did. I couldn't bring myself to buy the item for what I knew was a mistake but if it had been like $2.50 I probably wouldn't have figured it out until I got home.

Now my husband would have bought it because it was marked with a price and that's their responsibility, not his to make sure it's correct.

 

[vince284]

That's exactly what I did. I couldn't bring myself to buy the item for what I knew was a mistake but if it had been like $2.50 I probably wouldn't have figured it out until I got home.

Now my husband would have bought it because it was marked with a price and that's their responsibility, not his to make sure it's correct.

Yikes, it's our own responsibility to keep our own integrity not someone else's. If someone left their door unlocked, I wouldn't take advantage of it just because they were responsible for locking it.

 

[MOJS4545]

I would think if it was marked that low it would be obvious to the cashier that it was wrong and it would caught the manager attention. I wouldn't buy it or try to buy it since it is clearly marked wrong

 

[JRT]

Years ago I saw a bicycle advertised for $200 for $75 off. I went in and inspected it and decided to buy but the price was tagged as $150. I asked the clerk if it was marked correctly and she called over a manager. The manager checked the pricing out and said the list for the bike is $500 and turned to the clerk and said " It is our mistake, charge him the tagged price."

 

[Lamb]

Years ago I saw a bicycle advertised for $200 for $75 off. I went in and inspected it and decided to buy but the price was tagged as $150. I asked the clerk if it was marked correctly and she called over a manager. The manager checked the pricing out and said the list for the bike is $500 and turned to the clerk and said " It is our mistake, charge him the tagged price."

You did the right thing in bringing it to their attention...and they did the right thing by honoring the price that was marked. They probably kept you as a customer if it wasn't a specialized store?

 

[tango]

Let's say you're at a grocery store and you're looking through their fancy cheeses and see a block of some cheese that normally would be priced at $5 or so and it's only marked at $0.01.

Would you buy it or would you feel compelled to turn it in as being marked incorrectly?

I'd probably ask someone to confirm the price. I've come across a few situations where specific options are priced in ways I wouldn't expect and verified them before buying. Sometimes something is marked incorrectly, sometimes it's just some kind of special offer. Anything priced at $0.01 looks like a special offer that has to carry a non-zero price rather than an error. If I expected something to be $51.99 and it was listed at $15.99 I'd assume it was a mistake. Something heavily discounted like you describe is the sort of thing I'd naturally assume was a special rather than a mistake.