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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75571</law_id><section_number>59.1-207.41</section_number><catch_line>Advertising former price of goods or services</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="59.1">Trade and Commerce</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="17.7">Comparison Price Advertising Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No supplier shall in any manner knowingly advertise a <span class="dictionary">former price</span> of any goods or services unless:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Such <span class="dictionary">former price</span> is the price at or above which <span class="dictionary">substantial sales</span> were made in the recent regular course of business; or <a id="paragraph-271466" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-207.41/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Such <span class="dictionary">former price</span> was the price at which such goods or services or goods or services of substantially the same kind, quality, or quantity and with substantially the same service were openly and actively offered for sale for a reasonably substantial period of time in the recent regular course of business honestly, in good faith and not for the purpose of establishing a fictitious higher price on which a deceptive comparison might be based; or <a id="paragraph-271467" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-207.41/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Such <span class="dictionary">former price</span> is based on a markup that does not exceed the supplier&#x2019;s cost plus the usual and customary markup used by the supplier in the actual sale of such goods or services or goods or services of substantially the same kind, quality, or quantity and with substantially the same service, in the recent regular course of business; or <a id="paragraph-271468" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-207.41/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> The date on which <span class="dictionary">substantial sales</span> were made, or the goods or services were openly and actively offered for sale for a reasonably substantial period of time at the <span class="dictionary">former price</span> is advertised in a clear and conspicuous manner. <a id="paragraph-271469" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-207.41/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1992, c. 768.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
