NDAC 10-15-01-06
Use of list price or similar comparisons
Cite as N.D. Admin. Code ยง 10-15-01-06
It is a deceptive act or practice for a seller to make a price comparison or to claim a savings,
expressed or implied, from a list price or term of similar meaning, unless:
1.
The list price does not exceed the highest price at which substantial sales of the merchandise
have been made in the seller's trade area;
2.
The list price is the price at which the seller offered the merchandise for a reasonably
substantial period of time in the recent, regular course of its business, openly, actively, and in
good faith, with an intent to sell the merchandise at that price;
3.
The list price does not exceed the highest price at which the product is offered by a
reasonable number of sellers in the seller's trade area for a reasonably substantial period of
time in the recent, regular course of business; or
4.
The list price does not exceed the seller's cost plus the percentage markup regularly used by
the seller in the actual sale of such merchandise or merchandise of a similar class or kind, in
the seller's recent, regular course of business.