6mm twin earth cable for a 4m spur

[John D v2.0]

Bought 1 metre as that's what I needed. I'd already left the shop when I checked the receipt as we bought a few things.
Going back for more knowing it was a miss price would have been dodgy behaviour!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

True.

 

[sparkwright]

Is the existing wiring in 4.0mm2 then?

2.5mm2 is the most common.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Bought 1 metre as that's what I needed. I'd already left the shop when I checked the receipt as we bought a few things.
Going back for more knowing it was a miss price would have been dodgy behaviour!

True.

But it's an interesting moral dilemma.

If you had noticed at the time, would you have said "hang on - this can't be right" before paying? Many years ago my Dad went along with the idea put forward to him by a hardware store which generally sold sheet materials in cut sizes, and he was buying a full sheet, that an 8x4 piece of plywood should be twice the price of a 4x2 piece. Had they tried it the other way round I doubt he would have said nothing.

Personally I have had more than one experience in restaurants of them forgetting an item, and not putting it on the bill, and I have always told them. It's only right - had there been a mistake in their favour I would have challenged it.

OTOH I have experienced supermarkets paying me to take items away because the bozos who programmed stuff ended up with code which applied a multibuy discount to reduced items (e.g. full price £5, multibuy 2 for £6, items reduced for quick sale to £1, buy 2 of them = £2, end up getting £4 knocked off the total bill) and not challenged it.

It's easy to rationalise and say that the people on the customer service desk would have no way to correct it, but....

 

[stillp]

Last week I noticed that my local Homebase had a basket of "Jumbo car sponges" on special offer, reduced to just £64 each! I told them, but today they still haven't changed the ticket!

 

[EFLImpudence]

Sounds like a loss-leader for Homebase.

 

[John D v2.0]

Last week I noticed that my local Homebase had a basket of "Jumbo car sponges" on special offer, reduced to just £64 each! I told them, but today they still haven't changed the ticket!

They only need one person to buy one to make their money back...