KOA Petaluma....A mild rant

DownTheAvenue wrote:

westernrvparkowner wrote:
Actually, a mistake in advertised pricing does not obligate the retailer to that price.

Actually that is wrong. State laws differ, but in most states the advertised price must be honored until it is retracted. There are exceptions, and case law generally supports the customer unless the price is obvious wrong. Example, a $45,000 vehicle advertised for $45. As an attorney (no attorney jokes today please), I can tell you if you put up a sign in your campground office that said, "All sites $20." and a customer walks in and is told all sites are $45 and then he asked what about that sign and you said it is wrong, you would have to honor that posted price.

You are absolutely correct. I was referring more towards the $45.00 vehicle price and the fact that an improperly tagged product (all the shirts on the rack are priced at $55.00 but on one shirt the $5 got torn off so the price shows 5.00) does not obligate the merchant to honor those errors. Retracting of prices is quite common, you enter my local grocer and often there is a posted board of corrected prices from their ads.