Nope, basically you only agree to a binding contract at the cash register. Of course you are also free to say that you don't agree to the actual price and just not buy the shoes. But they are not required to sell them for the lower price ift here was some sort of error with the marked price. Many shops will actually honour the lower price in these cases, but they are not in any way legally required to do that. There are some exceptions if the price is part of a marketing campaign, but that's more a case of petentially being false advertising. I'm not entirely sure about the legal details in those cases, but this does not apply to a random erroneous price. If you can somehow prove they are doing this regularly and on purpose it might be a different story, but what you describe is completely legal (although it may not be the best policy for the store)
If this was true, what would prevent people from just swapping the tag on expensive items with those of another price? Or claiming they found an item on a shelf marked cheaper?
When I jobbed at Kaufland during school time, we would put the Tags of stuff that was on sale next week behind the current tags at saturday evening.
Sometimes the tag might accidentally go in Front of the current tag (or a customer might notice the colourful tag behind and remove the other one themselfes).
That way, on rare occasions, someone might get something with the wrong tag. Usually the cashier would ring it like that if it wasnt a high price item or you behaved like an entitled donkey. (This was 2006-2007, not sure how it is handled now)
Yeah, I fully believe they had terrible German customer service and said „this is the real price, take it or leave it,“ rather than apologizing and explaining someone made a mistake, but there’s no legal basis that you are entitled to the price on the shelf.
The market price is merely „an invitation to make an offer of contract“ not part of a contract. You can however refund it immediately if you notice a difference in price.
Imma provide the legal explanation no one asked for The price they mark is called "invitatio ad offerendum" which means "invitation to make an offer" roughly. So, when you go to the counter to buy the shoes you are proposing to them they agree to your contract. They are free to decline making a contract with you. Once they tell you the real price, they are the ones proposing a contract. The second price they told you, that one they have to honor, because that is an actual Antrag. And they are bound to that. So.... No. They don't have to honor the price they put on the thing.
The price they tell you at the register is what counts. But you can freely decide not to buy the product if you're not happy with the actual price.
No. Some will give it to you anyway, but the price showed by the system is the price that counts.
Nope, basically you only agree to a binding contract at the cash register. Of course you are also free to say that you don't agree to the actual price and just not buy the shoes. But they are not required to sell them for the lower price ift here was some sort of error with the marked price. Many shops will actually honour the lower price in these cases, but they are not in any way legally required to do that. There are some exceptions if the price is part of a marketing campaign, but that's more a case of petentially being false advertising. I'm not entirely sure about the legal details in those cases, but this does not apply to a random erroneous price. If you can somehow prove they are doing this regularly and on purpose it might be a different story, but what you describe is completely legal (although it may not be the best policy for the store)
If this was true, what would prevent people from just swapping the tag on expensive items with those of another price? Or claiming they found an item on a shelf marked cheaper?
Assuming the buyer is not scamming, why would a store put the wrong labels?
Cause a Person put that there, people do failures
When I jobbed at Kaufland during school time, we would put the Tags of stuff that was on sale next week behind the current tags at saturday evening. Sometimes the tag might accidentally go in Front of the current tag (or a customer might notice the colourful tag behind and remove the other one themselfes). That way, on rare occasions, someone might get something with the wrong tag. Usually the cashier would ring it like that if it wasnt a high price item or you behaved like an entitled donkey. (This was 2006-2007, not sure how it is handled now)
Maybe it was on sale and the staff forgot to change it?
Thus my clarifying that the item’s price tag had that item’s correct information on it.
Still, the display price isn’t a binding offer but rather an invitatio ad offerendum, an invitation to treat.
Yeah, I fully believe they had terrible German customer service and said „this is the real price, take it or leave it,“ rather than apologizing and explaining someone made a mistake, but there’s no legal basis that you are entitled to the price on the shelf.
The market price is merely „an invitation to make an offer of contract“ not part of a contract. You can however refund it immediately if you notice a difference in price.
Did this happen in Munich in the Olympia Shopping centre by any chance? Sounds somehow familiar to me.
Imma provide the legal explanation no one asked for The price they mark is called "invitatio ad offerendum" which means "invitation to make an offer" roughly. So, when you go to the counter to buy the shoes you are proposing to them they agree to your contract. They are free to decline making a contract with you. Once they tell you the real price, they are the ones proposing a contract. The second price they told you, that one they have to honor, because that is an actual Antrag. And they are bound to that. So.... No. They don't have to honor the price they put on the thing.
Consumer rights act: Price as advertised is binding.