Who is responsible for discounts?
Is it the obligation of the business or the customer to determine whether or not that customer is eligible for a discount? We honor discounts for Good Sam members, seniors and active military. That ...
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DrewE wrote:That is how they sell those random, not really wanted, low priced items. Probably some legal issues with just raising the price of an order above the advertised price.
It's the customers responsibility to request applicable discounts. It can be nice to remind them if there's reason to believe they would be eligible, but that's not a requirement on the merchant, just a nice neighborly thing to do.
Possibly one exception I'd suggest would be for the campground to automatically apply a lower total rate for a longer stay than actually requested/used. For instance, if staying six nights at $50 a night and the weekly rate is $275, it seems to me the campground maybe ought to, as a matter of course, use the weekly rate for the six days, possibly without even asking. But even then it is in no way unethical or scummy to charge the posted, agreed-upon rate for the length of the stay.
(Similarly, I think it would be nice if mail order and online merchants that offer free shipping on orders over $x would automatically bump an order up to $x if doing so results in a lower total cost than the actual order plus non-free shipping...or at least offer the option of buying nothing at $.01 per unit, rather than forcing one to add random, not-really-wanted low priced items to bring the total up to the free shipping threshhold.)
