To think I got ripped off in the charity shop?

[Rosbeet]

Disclaimer, I'm just kidding, it was a small amount of money and I'm happy with the items but I pedantically I think I'm right!

Some matching cushion covers on a table, pick one up and it's attached to a 2nd one and the tag says 'set £2' So I pick up the other 2 that are with it and they are individual, not tagged together. So I think a set of 4 for £2? Great!

Get to the till and the women says they're £4 as it's £2 a set. I say OK and pay.

BUT it's bugging me a bit because

A- if they were being sold in pairs would they both be attached in 2's? Rather than 2 together and 2 alone?

B- Both pairs of pillows would have tags on with the individual price if they were being sold separately as pairs. As if someone bought 1 pair the 2nd pair are left tagless, suggesting the tag was indicative of all 4.

C- Wouldn't the workding on the tags say 'pair £2' rather than set? A pair is 2? A set sounds more like 4?
And as they are all the same cushion they're a set?

BTW I'm autistic and things like this really play on my mind because I don't know if I've misinterpreted.

So if you picked up a cushion and there was 4 of them exactly the same and the tag set 'set £2' would you expect all 4 of them to be £2?

I'm know I'm overthinkining it (joys of ND) but I'm just genuinely curious!

:)

They were probably put out onto the shop floor clipped and tagged. I work in a charity shop and we often fine items with the tags/label ripped off, items dumped in random places, things opened and broken. Some people have less respect for the stock because it's "just" a charity shop.

(One of my favourite is telling people the price on an item is wrong because I priced it and put it out less than 10 minutes before. No, that Zara dress with the store tags still on saying £50 was not priced as a £1 toy. I priced it at £7, do you want it or not? No, £7 for a new dress worth seven times that amount is not a rip off.)

There's no way I would have thought all 4 cushions where only £2 especially with the others being separate, thats just seems pretty obvious to me.

Even as I read it I was thinking you where going to moan you where charged for 3 not 2 as the second set wasn't fastened together because you couldn't possibly think its 1 grouping.

They are volunteers, often new to it. They're not trying to diddle you. Give them a break, right or wrong. You got a bargain either way.

Well I'm going to be pedantic too now, OP, by picking holes in your message and showing that even the best people make mistakes.

You refer to the items in question as "cushion covers", then later on as "pillows" and later still as "cushions".

So, while you're mulling over whether or not the word "set" is not to be used interchangeably with a "pair", you could also ask yourself why "cushions covers", "pillows", and "cushions" all mean the same. I'm not having a go at you, I am drawing your attention to the fact that people make errors.

I would have interpreted it exactly as the shop assistant did. That each pair was a set at £2. Quite a few people have said they presume a set would be more than 2 items but I'm not sure why as things can be a set of one.