fenrir72 wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:O me, o my...
I've taken a closer look at the evidence presented (clicked on the image, and brought it full size. you should try it) and this is what the price tag reads:
TRNSFM GENRTN ALT MODES
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6.99As clear as day, that tag was not for Masterpiece Bumblebee, but for a different (but related) product. As such, the store made a mistake when stocking by either putting it on the wrong allocated space, or by not removing the price tag. Fine, it happens. But to actually use it as an opportunity to score something big for cheap, that's a bit eh... The most incredible part? The manager actually agreed to selling that item for that price to him, so technically speaking, despite the pretense, it's as legally binding as it can get, oddly enough. So nothing more can actually be done.
The manager was well in his right to contest the potential purchase, based on the evidence, but he choose not to, accepting full responsibility for the actions taken. Worse, once corporate gets wind of it, the manager is the one in trouble, not the customer. The customer is always right, after all...
Am I going to praise the OP? I will say this, the OP did get lucky with the manager this time, but nothing else.
You are looking at the shelf tag. The shelf tag does not matter as to what was stuck on the box of the MP-BB. People people. When you check out at the cash register, the operator uses a bar code reader or slides the item over a built in sensor that read/decodes the barcode info in the price tag decal.
What's so hard at grasping that? You don't see a staff going all the way back to the shelf to check for the price unless the tag is visibly tampered with to arouse the staff's suspicions, or the item doesn't "show up" in the database.
Because the price tags (have to/should) match whatever is in the digital system for that particular item shown on it, no matter where it's located. That tag was
not for MP Bumblebee, therefore should not have been used for that instance of price matching.
In the ideal scenario, the item itself rang up something like "TRNSFM BMBLBSPK" or whatever the store uses, same as on the tag, and that's the end of the story. Scanned price is FINAL price, at least that's what I was taught back home
Why do you think we have price scanners in case a price tag is missing?
Instead, a conveniently misplaced tag, for a different item, was used to get that otherwise expensive figure for cheap, and the manager choose the side of the tag, while he should stayed with the scanned price (unless there's a discrepancy with the price
while the name reasonably matched).
From what I can tell, the item did just that: rang up as normal, but the price was then brought down by the manager, on the insistence of the customer, claiming the lower price on the tag (for a different item) is what he's entitled to. Whether or not he was doesn't actually matter now (I'd say he wasn't since the name doesn't reasonably match the item in question). The manager agreed to the sale, making it perfectly legal, albeit under very much less ideal circumstances, and that leaves a bit of a sour taste.
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, might be exaggerating he's "doing this all the time". It is a crime to switch tags but in this case, the system didn't flag him because the encoding was legit.
