We always quote "excluding VAT/carriage" for example
This is only allowable where products are being sold to or aimed at business customers, who would themselves be registered for VAT, rather than personal/retail customers.
Online check-in avoids this particular charge...
I suppose it's the same with Ryanair and their €5 check in charge. You can't take a flight without checking in.
Online check-in avoids this particular charge
Perhaps belongs in the CAR & MOTORING section - mods feel free to move if you want. Its a rant, so I posted it in LETTING OFF STEAM.
I always find it amusing that car manufacturers are allowed to quote prices in their adverts and say "the new XXX, from €22,500, excluding delivery and related charges".
Now, all of us potential buyers are not able to avoid the delivery and related charges, so the 'from' price quoted is not real, and should really be 'from (whatever the lowest priced model is) + the delivery and related charges'.
This is allowing them to make their car sound cheaper than it actually is, and surely shouldn't be allowed?
The reality is very different with a small number of organisations providing vehicle delivery services around the country advertised from "... as low as €50 per unit..." or at a fixed known cost. These same organisations provide vehicle manufacturer-approved PDI services to dealers also at fixed known costs.... As delivery charges may vary indifferent parts of the country it is reasonable that this cannot be quoted in the advert. ... each dealer sets their own labour rate and so sets their own “related charges” charge. ...
The reality is very different with a small number of organisations providing vehicle delivery services around the country advertised from "... as low as €50 per unit..." or at a fixed known cost. These same organisations provide vehicle manufacturer-approved PDI services to dealers also at fixed known costs.
So "delivery and related charges" are, by and large, predictable, standard, fixed and known in advance, but SIMI members won't tell their customers that.
There's nothing in the Competition Act that precludes the establishment by the manufacturer of recommended or maximum prices that could include delivery and related costs. An individual reatailer is still free to offer a lower price if he/she feels it justified.
The price-fixing case of recent years related to an orchestrated practice on the part of the manufacturer to control and limit the discounts that retailers could offer, effectively denying retailers the opportunuity to comepete with each other on price.
This is completely different.
The price fixing case involved car dealers, not manufacturers. Details here.
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