If you saw a sofa in a shop with a price ticket attached - would you expect to buy that sofa for that price?

[Katymac]

Because I would & I am trying to decide if I am being awkward?

Even if it goes down in price (as they always do) I wouldn't buy it now

I am (perhaps unreasonably I accept) peeved

I DON'T UNDERSTAND ANY OF THIS!!!

BUT THE PRICE FOR THE SOFA BED IS ON THE PRICE TICKET!!!!

The price is on the same label, on the top right hand corner?

In store advertising is NOT price tickets. It's posters you see outside, promotional banners, those things they have hanging from the ceiling with deals on etc etc etc.

You're disappointed, I get that. But you're also wrong. It clearly says '2 seater sofa' and clearly gives the 'sofa bed' price as well.

When you walk up to a sofa & sit on it - you see the large numbers on the red background
When you look under the seat & see it's a sofa bed - I assumed that the sofabed I was sat on was the large numbers on the red background

I now know I am wrong & stupid for assuming the price I saw attached to an item was the price I would pay

I get that I am wrong but I am used to shopping in places who mark their goods with the price you are paying rather than marking them in large numbers with a price for a different item

Small print is exactly that

Are you allowed to say what shop it is?
I hate deliberately misleading and confusing pricing, but see it everywhere.

You will find a better sofa in a better shop...I hope

The problem for the shop is if they put the sofa bed price people wouldn't realise it was a sofa bed as they were walking past and just think it was an expensive 2 seater sofa -and keep walking past

The shop has displayed both prices and has done nothing wrong

But it also has the price of the sofabed on the same ticket.

Op. I would look at that sofa and look at the price ticket and think that it was £623 as per the ticket.

But the item you see IS a 2 seater sofa, people might not realise it's a sofa bed & would think the £800 was for the 2 seater sofa. You don't realise it's a sofa bed until you go looking under it or check out the tag to see if they do it in a sofa bed.

Dfs sofas are rubbish anyway, no loss!

Still don't understand anything, but what Slithy said re DFS!

I can understand why the shop has done this and to be honest I think it's clear enough if it's all listed on the ticket even if not initially obvious.

The price ticket says 'sofa bed as displayed £804 and the sofa has an additional ticket on it saying 'sofa bed'. Could be more obvious but they have completely covered themselves there. I'd say more people buy a sofa than a sofa bed which is probably why they do it.

They are being sneaky with their labelling, but the main price on the label relates to a sofa being that price, and the black triangle on the corner of the label says how much the sofa bed would be.

Did you not read the label properly deliberately?

But that's a hideous sofa anyway.... misses point

They are not being sneaky, the price label quite clearly gives the price of the 2 seater sofa and the higher price of the sofa bed - there is nothing misleading about the ticket

We get this all the time at work.... Customers go out of their way to find an issue and are deliberately thick! Then threaten 'trading standards'

Then I show them the vital but they missed and its 'too small' or 'misleading'

No. It's there for you to read

OK, I see they won't have every option on display - and if the 2 seater sofa and 2 seater sofa bed look the same, then they're going to display the sofa bed. Because customers will want to look at how that works.

But if they're using one item to represent 2, then the display ticket should show both prices in equal size.

It is normal I think for a suite to have a single ticket on each individual option, with all options listed. But that example is really small.

Totally normal to have the lowest price listed but all of the options - armchairs, 3 seaters, etc listed somwhere on the ticket. Only time I haven't seen that is if they only sell one model or are displaying all of the pieces and have a separate price list on postcards / A4 typed paper. You need to pay better attention, OP