multi packs

[paultnl]

Just idle curiosity but I wonder if some of the legal bods could tell me the answer.

If I buy a six pack of a canned soft drink why do the individual cans say PART OF A MULTIPACK NOT FOR RESALE. Surely if I have added my own value by hiking them to the top of a hill I can sell drinks to other hikers.

 

[cmcp]

I think that is an agreement between the manufacturer and the retailer. Single ones are for single sale, multipacks for multipack sale.

I think multipacks are labelled differently (and lacking in some legal info?) to prevent retailers selling them individually, as I think shopkeepers have to meet certain trading standards.

That's just a rough idea

 

[paultnl]

I have checked the labeling and can see no differences, contents etc. also the exterior pack has no notification of the resale limitation which is why I question the legality of the label.

 

[MASSEY]

Those messages are not legally binding as far as i know,

But where they could get you is if it is pricemarked at 50p and you try to sell it at 51p

 

[Dawg]

Individual items in multipacks are not usually labeled with all legally necessary information, as this is only on the outer.
There is a very small chance that Trading Standards might take time off from prosecuting grandmothers and have a go at someone selling unlabeled items.
Unlikely, unnecessary, but possible.

 

[Sharpy]

We've had this thread before.

In short, you can sell it for whatever you chose. Thats between you and a consumer. If someone wants to pay 60p for a can of Pepsi you paid 25p for, then that's up to them.

The local sandwich van near my house sells multipack cans and crisps and I've yet to have seen him dragged away by the feds

 

It only becomes illegal if each item (each can of Pepsi) doesn't have the nutritional values on them.

The reason i know this? I enquired as i was fed up with buying things from my local shop which said "multi-pack product - not for re-sale" and they advised me of the above.

 

[Chris Ashdown]

All paperback books have in the first few pages a statement to say not for re-sale but look at the number of secondhand book sites and shops

 

[Dawg]

All paperback books have in the first few pages a statement to say not for re-sale but look at the number of secondhand book sites and shops

The statement is qualified by "in any form of binding or cover other than that.." which means you can't republish it, an entirely different matter from selling it second hand.

 

[Chris Ashdown]

Ahh, Always though it strange, good job I don't sell books

Many thanks Dawg